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The objective of this article is to analyze how different languages in the series Unorthodox convey information on characters’ identities, and whether, at the same time, the choice of language produces different effects on the film narrative itself. Since we are dealing with audiovisual products, in any full account of the story, the image must be considered as an essential factor affecting the audiences’ interpretation of the show. The article analyzes how multilingualism is rendered in its Spanish version and shows that different translation solutions may change how each character’s identity is perceived. We found that the main four languages of the series (English, Yiddish, German, and Hebrew) are used to convey different personal and social identities to each character. Besides, linguistic choices between Yiddish and English show the evolution of the main character towards freedom. Although multilingualism is hardly present in the visual channel, cultural references conveyed through images help the viewer to follow key shifts in the story.

Sposobnost precizne percepcije emocija važna je u mnogim aspektima života jer se na taj način mogu interpretirati ljudske reakcije na određene situacije, predvidjeti ponašanja koja možda slijede i dodatno ih potaknuti ili prevenirati ako je potrebno. Tijekom percepcije emocija ljudi se koriste različitim izvorima informacija, uključujući svojim vizualnim i auditivnim kanalom, koji su nužni za učinkovitu komunikaciju i socijalnu interakciju. Postoje situacije u kojima jedan od tih kanala može biti nedostupan te je korisno znati se osloniti na drugi. Većinom su se istraživanja bavila percepcijom emocija samo putem jednog od kanala, vizualnog ili auditivnog, a manje njih je istraživalo odnos između različitih kanala putem kojih se emocije mogu percipirati i koji od njih je potencijalno dominantniji. Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je ispitati percepciju četiri emocije (sreća, tuga, ljutnja, strah) putem auditivnog (govor), vizualnog (facijalna ekspresija) i audio-vizualnog (govor i facijalna ekspresija) kanala kod muškaraca i žena. Uzorak ispitanika sastojao se od pet studenata koji se bave glumom (tri muškarca i dvije žene) koji su bili snimljeni kako što zornije prikazuju navedene emocije putem govora i facijalne ekspresije. Istraživački materijal se sastojao od 60 audio, video i audio-vizualnih snimaka neutralne rečenice „Ona je sjedila u velikom crvenom autu.“. Procjenjivači su bili 45 osoba od 22 do 31 godine (25 žena i 20 muškaraca) različitih fakulteta i struka koji su putem platforme ZOOM slušali prvo audio, zatim gledali video i na kraju audio-vizualne snimke te u prethodno dobivenu Word tablicu upisivali emocije za koje su mislili da su prisutne. Rezultati su bili obrađeni u programu Microsoft Excel. Hi-kvadrat testom je pokazano da postoje statistički značajne razlike u percipiranju emocija putem auditivnog, vizualnog i audio-vizualnog kanala te da nema statistički značajnih razlika između muškaraca i žena., The ability to accurately perceive emotions is important in many aspects of life because it can interpret human reactions to certain situations, predict behaviors that may follow and further encourage or prevent them if necessary. During the perception of emotions, people use different sources of information, including their visual and auditory channels, which are necessary for effective communication and social interaction. There are situations where one of these channels may be unavailable and it's useful to know how to rely on the other. Most of the researches were based on investigating perception of emotions only through one of the channels, visual or auditory, and fewer were investigating the relationship between different channels through which emotions can be perceived and which of them is potentially more dominant. The aim of this research was to examine the perception of four emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear) through auditory (speech), visual (facial expression) and audio-visual (speech and facial expression) channel in men and women. The sample of examinees consisted of five students engaged in acting (three men and two women) who were recorded how they vividly present these emotions through speech and facial expression. The research material consisted of 60 audio, video and audi-visual recordings of neutral sentence „She was sitting in a big red car.“. The evaluators were 45 people aged 22 to 31 (25 women and 20 men) from different colleges and professions who were, via the ZOOM platform, first listened to audio, then watched the video and finally audio-visual recordings and wrote emotions for which they thought were present into the Word table they got before the research. The results were processed in Microsoft Excel. The chi-square test showed statistically significant differences in the perception of emotions through the auditory, visual and audio-visual channels and that there are no statistically significant differences between men and women.

Treball de fi de màster en Discurs. Tutora: Dra. Pilar Prieto Vives Human communication is multimodal, e.g. it is composed of a set of verbal and non-verbal (visual) cues produced by the speaker with the aim to persuade the hearer’s thoughts and actions. However, the actual impact of the visual channel on the recipients’ impressions of persuasiveness is still not clear. The purpose of this investigation is to assess how the visual channel can impact on the perceived persuasiveness of public speeches. A set of 45 persuasive speeches delivered by a group of high school students in front of a real audience was assessed by a group of 15 raters who evaluated the persuasive effect of the speech on a 1 to 7 Likert scale. Crucially, they first assessed the isolated audio-only version of the discourses (Audio-Only condition) and a week later the audio- visual recordings of the same speeches (Audio-Visual condition). A quantitative analysis of the rater’s persuasive assessments revealed that AV presentations were perceived to be more persuasive than AO presentations of the same discourses. In order to assess why the visual presentation of the discourses triggered a more positive effect on hearers, a multimodal analysis was carried out for prosodic and non-verbal features of these discourses. The results showed that the speakers that obtained a mean improvement of 0.4 in their AV persuasiveness score used significantly more positive multimodal stance indicators (e.g., direct gaze at the audience, more communicative gestures, and more smiling faces) than the speakers that did not obtain an improvement. All in all, the present study shows that access to the visual channel tends to impact positively on the audience's perception of persuasive speech. This study has been partly funded by a research grant awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities (PGC2018-097007-B-I00, ‘Multimodal Language Learning (MLL): Prosodic and Gestural Integration in Pragmatic and Phonological Development’).

Рассмотрено влияние мониторов на оператора и органы зрения, а также электромагнитного излучения на организм человека. Отмечено, что количественно влияние типа монитора на профессиональную деятельность оператора изучено недостаточно. Для количественной оценки влияния TFT монитора на деятельность человека-оператора использованы аналитические квазилинейные модели. Найдены передаточные функции и спектральные плотности ремнанты группы операторов на основе структурной идентификации экспериментальных данных. Выбраны параметры для оценки влияния TFT монитора. Проведен статистический анализ этих параметров.

Автоматичне управління процесами, як правило, досить успішно реалізується програмно-апаратними комплексами. Але найбільш складні завдання управління не мислимі без участі людини. Тому завдання побудови автоматизованих систем достатня актуальна. У цьому завданні найважливішу роль відіграє відстеження керованого процесу людиною. Інформація про керований процесі повинна бути сигналами, доступними для сприйняття людиною. Найважливішим каналом відстеження цієї інформації є зоровий канал.

Device authentication in ad hoc networks is becoming more and more important. Nowadays, there are many interesting applications which communicate via the short-rang wireless communication channel (such as Bluetooth or WiFi). In the communication, a great deal of sensitive information is required to be transmitted. Therefore, device authentication is significant. In order to build a secure authentication mechanism, protocols are proposed using human control visual channels. However, this method brings many challenges, the main one being the burden placed on humans. Therefore, in this thesis, these protocols are optimized using visible light communication techniques, which significantly reduce the work faced by humans.

Der visuelle Sinneskanal ist für die Informationsaufnahme zur Erfüllung der Fahraufgabe dominierend. Es ist zu erwarten, dass sich besonders die Analyse des Blickverhaltens als sensitiv in Bezug auf Veränderungen des Fahrerver- haltens durch die zusätzliche Bedienung von Kommunikations- und Informations- systemen erweist. Das neuartige Konzept der Arbeit beinhaltet den Vergleich zwischen einem postulierten Soll-Blickverhalten mit einem tatsächlichen Ist-Blickverhalten. Es konnte im Feldversuch mit 30 Probanden gezeigt werden, dass durch eine Nebenaufgabe die Qualität des Blickverhaltens reduziert wird. Die Fahrer verlassen sich in zunehmendem Maße auf das regelkonforme Verhalten der anderen Verkehrsteilnehmer und führen essenziell wichtige Blicke nicht immer durch. This work contains a proposal for the evaluation of driver´s glance behavior, focussing on the influence of secondary tasks during driving. In general, an evaluation can only be achieved by regarding the quality of a task completion, which can be calculated by a comparison of a measured, actual value or behavior and a defined target value or behavior. Due to this definition, a target glance behavior is defined by so called continous and situational visual tasks. As opposed to continous visual tasks, situational visual tasks contain a concrete description for a target glance behavior. A field trial (N=30) showed, that the subjects´ glance behavior fulfilled most of the defined visual tasks when driving without a secondary task. Driving with secondary tasks leads to a increasing subjects´ reliance on the correct driving of the other road users, shown by decreasing visual monitoring.