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Walter Bischof

University of Alberta
Verified email at ualberta.ca
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Ventilation and health in non-industrial indoor environments: report from a European multidisciplinary scientific consensus meeting (EUROVEN).

P Wargocki, J Sundell, W Bischof, G Brundrett… - Indoor air, 2002 - europepmc.org
Scientific literature on the effects of ventilation on health, comfort, and productivity in non-industrial
indoor environments (offices, schools, homes, etc.) has been reviewed by a …

Attentional switching in spatial and nonspatial domains: Evidence from the attentional blink.

TAW Visser, WF Bischof, V Di Lollo - Psychological Bulletin, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
Much is known abut attritional switching across space, but much less about switches between
nonspatial domains such as category or task. Nonetheless, extensive information about …

Lean on Wii: physical rehabilitation with virtual reality Wii peripherals

F Anderson, M Annett, WF Bischof - Stud Health Technol Inform, 2010 - books.google.com
In recent years, a growing number of occupational therapists have integrated video game
technologies, such as the Nintendo Wii, into rehabilitation programs.‘Wiihabilitation’, or the use …

Daily time spent indoors in German homes–baseline data for the assessment of indoor exposure of German occupants

S Brasche, W Bischof - International journal of hygiene and environmental …, 2005 - Elsevier
Comprehensive time-activity studies, for use as a basis for estimates of personal exposure,
are not readily available in Germany. This analysis of time spent indoors at home is based on …

Social attention and real-world scenes: The roles of action, competition and social content

E Birmingham, WF Bischof… - Quarterly journal of …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study examined how social attention is influenced by social content and the
presence of items that are available for attention. We monitored observers’ eye movements …

Allergens and endotoxin on mothers' mattresses and total immunoglobulin E in cord blood of neonates

…, I Lehmann, B Fahlbusch, W Bischof… - European …, 2002 - Eur Respiratory Soc
The current authors examined whether mite and cat allergen and bacterial endotoxin levels
in dust of the mothers' mattresses were associated with cord blood immunoglobulin (Ig)E (CB…

[HTML][HTML] Saliency does not account for fixations to eyes within social scenes

E Birmingham, WF Bischof, A Kingstone - Vision research, 2009 - Elsevier
We assessed the role of saliency in driving observers to fixate the eyes in social scenes.
Saliency maps (Itti & Koch, 2000) were computed for the scenes from three previous studies. …

Why do women suffer from sick building syndrome more often than men?--subjective higher sensitivity versus objective causes.

…, M Bullinger, M Morfeld, HJ Gebhardt, W Bischof - Indoor air, 2001 - europepmc.org
Office workers often report so-called sick building syndrome (SBS) symptoms affecting the
skin, mucous membranes and nervous system. The recurring higher prevalence of SBS in …

House dust endotoxin and allergic sensitization in children

U Gehring, W Bischof, B Fahlbusch… - American journal of …, 2002 - atsjournals.org
A higher exposure to endotoxin was hypothesized to contribute to lower prevalence of allergic
sensitization and hay fever in children growing up on a farm. We studied the association …

Gaze selection in complex social scenes

E Birmingham, WF Bischof, A Kingstone - Visual cognition, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
A great deal of recent research has sought to understand the factors and neural systems
that mediate the orienting of spatial attention to a gazed-at location. What have rarely been …