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2015
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(2015): Public art and public space – Waiting stress and waiting pleasure. In: Time & Society 27 (1), S. 69-91. DOI: 10.1177/0961463X15596701
Abstract: The study presented here applies from an interdisciplinary perspective the temporal know-how of art and communication design as well as the social sciences to the exploration of the impact of two types of holistic artistic waiting room transformations on waiting experience and behaviour. The quasi-experiment was conducted in a hospital and in an administrative setting. Contrary to current information centred types of waiting management stressing clock-time' only and attempting to reduce objective waiting times, the artistic intervention follows a holistic concept by appealing to all the senses influencing felt time and social time. It comprises visual, acoustic, tactile/haptic and olfactory elements (fragrance management). The observation-oriented artistic intervention uses contemplative video works, ornamentation, relaxing fragrances and a corresponding seating design. The action-oriented room climate promotes communication and stimulating object and surface design, coupled with a subliminally stimulating fragrance environment. After a simultaneous one-week baseline measurement in both organizations, follow-up measures were conducted during one week of each type of intervention. Results are based on 482 personal interviews and 1950 observations of waiting clients: Perceived waiting time and objective waiting time correlated only moderately (rp=56) and expected waiting time was overestimated. In both waiting room settings, room transformations - compared to baseline measures - reduced waiting stress behaviour (however not perceived stress) and increased both positive overall room perception and the evaluation of specific room characteristics among clients/patients. Differences between the two room climates were not significant and effects appear to be stronger in the administrative space. The relatively short waiting times (16-20min) and high levels of waiting satisfaction at baseline might have limited the effect size of the holistic interventions. At the same time observed positive outcomes can be plausibly expected in waiting zones with much longer waiting times.
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(2015): That Sounds Sweet. Using Cross-Modal Correspondences to Communicate Gustatory Attributes. In: Psychology & Marketing 32 (1), S. 107-120. DOI: 10.1002/mar.20766
Abstract: Building on existing research into sound symbolism and cross-modal correspondences, this article proposes that cross-modal correspondences-systematic mappings between different sensory modalities-can be used to communicate nonmusical, low-level sensory properties such as basic tastes through music. A series of three experiments demonstrates that cross-modal correspondences enable people to systematically encode basic taste properties into parameters in musical space (Experiment 1), and that they are able to correctly decode basic taste information embedded in complex musical compositions (Experiments 2 and 3). The results also suggest some culture-specificity to these mappings, given that decoding performance, while still above chance levels, was lower in Indian participants than in those from the United States (Experiment 3). Implications and potential applications of these findings are discussed.
Keywords: ASSOCIATIONS, AUDITORY PITCH, BRAND NAMES, culture specificity, Geschmack, Kognitionswissenschaft/Social Sciences/Humanities, MAPPINGS, MENTAL-IMAGERY, MUSICAL NOTES, Musik, Musik und Geschmack, PERCEPTION, PHONETIC SYMBOLISM, Status / biologische Marker, Synästhesie, SYNESTHETIC CORRESPONDENCES, TASTE -
(2015): Agent Technology for Intelligent Mobile Services and Smart Societies. Workshop on Collaborative Agents, Research and Development, CARE 2014, and Workshop on Agents, Virtual Societies and Analytics, AVSA 2014, Held as Part of AAMAS 2014, Paris, France, May 5-9, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg (Communications in Computer and Information Science). Online verfügbar unter http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46241-6Keywords: Proceedings
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(2015): A Leader’s Procedural Justice, Respect and Extra-role Behaviour: The Roles of Leader In-group Prototypicality and Identification. In: Social Justice Research 28 (2), S. 187-206. DOI: 10.1007/s11211-015-0243-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-015-0243-9 Abstract: The relational models of procedural justice suggest that a leader’s procedural justice indicates to group members whether they are respected members of the group or not and that feelings of respect induce subsequent group-serving behaviour. Importantly, these models also present, and previous empirical studies show, that a leader’s procedural justice conveys respect-related information most powerfully when the leader is in-group prototypical. The present study of 153 employees from 20 children’s day-care centres builds on these assumptions and develops them further. This study shows that leader in-group prototypicality moderates the relationship between the leader’s procedural justice and group members’ feelings of respect only when group members are highly identified with the group. In addition, our study reveals that feelings of respect mediate the relationship between the leader’s procedural justice and group members’ extra-role behaviour only if perceived leader in-group prototypicality and group identification are concurrently at a relatively high level. The paper discusses the implications of these findings.
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(2015) : Influence of approaching patterns of Telepresence Robot for personal space: 2015 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI): Tainan, Taiwan: IEEE, S. 221-226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAAI.2015.7407117 Abstract: The robot called “Telepresence Robot” is on business in recent years. However, the robot does not consider user’s personal space when the robot approaches the user. To better develop the system of the robot, here we study about how the robot approaches a user. The three factors was considered to influence the scope of the user’s personal space. The first factor is the position where the robot starts to decelerate when the robot approaches a user. The second factor is the method the robot decelerate. The final factor is pre-action by sound when the robot approaches a user. We verified those 3 factors, as a result, it was revealed that pre-action influenced personal space. By the appropriate approaching, the conversation between Telepresence Robot and human becomes natural and interactive.
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(2015): Communicative Styles and Genres. Between Universality and Culture-Specificity. In: International Review of Pragmatics 7 (2), S. 161-169. DOI: 10.1163/18773109-00702001
Abstract: The present special thematic issue comes up as a result of a joint effort of members and supporters of the European Network for Intercultural Education Activities (enieda), a collaborative academic initiative exploring and promoting the values of plurilingualism, democratic citizenship and intercultural cooperation through trans-disciplinary dialogue. Having initially focused on the European model of pluralistic society, its policies, practices and perspectives outlined in the Preamble of the 19?? recommendation of the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, in which they acknowledge the fact that the rich heritage of diverse languages and cultures in Europe is a valuable common resource to be protected and developed, and that a major educational effort is needed to convert that diversity from a barrier to communication into a source of mutual enrichment and understanding. Recommendation ((82)18) eniedas activities have now expanded both in geographical and disciplinary terms.
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(2015): Die fast unvermeidliche Trivialisierung der Systemtheorie in der Praxis. In: Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO) 46 (3-4), S. 327-339
Abstract: Für die moderne Organisationsentwicklung stellt die Systemtheorie eine wichtige Grundlage dar. In letzter Zeit häufen sich allerdings die Stimmen, die die Systemtheorie oder den Umgang mit ihr in der Veränderungsarbeit zunehmend kritisch sehen. Zu dieser Debatte hat auch Louis Klein mit seiner Polemik «What the hell is Systemtheorie» (Ausgabe 1/2015 der OrganisationsEntwicklung) beigetragen. Wir haben uns entschlossen, mit dem Text von Stefan Kühl einen ersten Teil dieser Debatte in dieser Aufgabe zu veröffentlichen. Unter www.zoe-online.org wird sie im Netz fortgeführt.
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(2015): ‘Guys don’t whale away at the women’. Etiquette and gender relations in contemporary mixed-doubles tennis. In: Sport in Society 19 (8-9), S. 1214-1233. DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2015.1067773
Abstract: This article examines recent developments in etiquette in contemporary mixed-doubles tennis (MDT), to position different behavioural expectations for men/women in the broader context of shifting gender relations. Content analysis of coaching guides published from the 1960-1980s revealed that historically rooted gender distinctions in terms of court positioning, tactics, and playing roles/expectations were reaffirmed, continuing to undermine and marginalize females yet privilege males based on assumed innate differences in physical attributes. Etiquette norms in this era were compared to those found in the early twenty-first century (2000-2010s), through content analysis of online forums/blogs for recreational and elite-level MDT. It was found that while gendered tactics related to court positioning and playing roles were sustained, an important shift in etiquette norms related to chivalry occurred, but was not comprehensively accepted among all players. This development was attributed to third-wave feminist challenges to male chivalry, alongside the burgeoning crisis of masculinity' that increasingly pushed men towards adopting a hybridized masculinity' to assuage public critiques of hegemonic/orthodox masculinity in sport.
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(2015): Rural N(SO) and German middle-class mothers' interaction with their 3- and 6-month-old infants. A longitudinal cross-cultural analysis. In: Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 29 (4), S. 649-655. DOI: 10.1037/fam0000100
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26075741 Abstract: This study aims to analyze culture-specific development of maternal interactional behavior longitudinally. Rural Cameroonian Nso mothers (n = 72) and German middle-class mothers (n = 106) were observed in free-play interactions with their 3- and 6-month-old infants. Results reveal the expected shift from a social to a nonsocial focus only in the German middle-class mothers' play interactions but not the rural Nso mothers' play. Nso mothers continue their proximal interactional style with a focus on body contact and body stimulation, whereas German middle-class mothers prefer a distal style of interaction with increasing object-centeredness. These cultural differences are in line with broader cultural models and become more accentuated as the infants grow older.
Keywords: Adult, Cross-Cultural Comparison, culture specific, Female, Germany, Humans, Infant, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Maternal Behavior/ethnology/psychology, Mother-Child Relations, Mothers/psychology, Play and Playthings/psychology, Proxemik, Rural Population/statistics & numerical data, Status / biologische Marker -
(2015): The role of shared neural activations, mirror neurons, and morality in empathy--a critical comment. In: Neuroscience research 90, S. 15-24. DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2014.10.008
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25455743 Abstract: In the last decade, the phenomenon of empathy has received widespread attention by the field of social neuroscience. This has provided fresh insights for theoretical models of empathy, and substantially influenced the academic and public conceptions about this complex social skill. The present paper highlights three key issues which are often linked to empathy, but which at the same time might obscure our understanding of it. These issues are: (1) shared neural activations and whether these can be interpreted as evidence for simulation accounts of empathy; (2) the causal link of empathy to our presumed mirror neuron system; and (3) the question whether increasing empathy will result in better moral decisions and behaviors. The aim of our review is to provide the basis for critically evaluating our current understanding of empathy, and its public reception, and to inspire new research directions.
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(2015): Creating social orientation through language. A socio-cognitive theory of situated social meaning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co. Online verfügbar unter http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/celcr.17
Abstract: This monograph develops a new socio-cognitive theory of sense-making for analyzing the creative management of situated social meaning. Drawing on cognitive-linguistic and social-interactional heuristics in an innovative way, the book both theorizes and demonstrates how embodied cognizers create complex situated conceptualizations of self and other, which guide and support their interactions. It shows how these sense-making processes are managed through the coordinated social interaction of two (or more) communicative partners. To illustrate the theory, the book draws on two distinct data sets: front-desk tourist-information transactions and online-workgroup discussions. It scrutinizes how the communicative partners use verbal humour as a powerful strategy to creatively establish a situated social image for themselves. This book addresses specialists and advanced students in the areas of cognitive linguistics as well as interactional approaches to language. Moreover, it will be of great value to readers interested in verbal humour, business communication, and computer-mediated communication.
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(2015): Culture-Specific Communicative Styles as a Framework for Interpreting Linguistic and Cultural Idiosyncrasies. In: International Review of Pragmatics 7 (2), S. 195-215. DOI: 10.1163/18773109-00702003
Abstract: This paper attempts to define a culture-specific communicative style which I call communicative ethno-style and determine the factors which lead to its formation. While defining communicative ethno-style some generalizations are unavoidable and reference is made to a typical user of standard language and his/her communicative behaviour in interpersonal interaction in everyday situations. At the same time it is not possible to take a dichotomous approach in describing the communicative styles as they form a continuum and need to be viewed in comparison. In this paper I demarcate the dominant features of Russian communicative style as opposed to British and emphasize the importance of a systemized description of culture specific communicative differences through communicative ethno-styles. This is important for developing pragmatic and discourse competence necessary for intercultural communication. The study is based on empirical data obtained through questionnaires, interviews and observations and follows contextual, pragmatic, discourse analyses. The theoretical framework is based on Politeness Theory (Brown and Levinson, 1987; Leech, 1983, 2005; Watts, 2003), Speech Act Theory (Austin, 1962; Searle, 1969) and the Theory of Cultural Scripts (Wierzbicka, 1991/2003, 2002, 2006).
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(2015): Why Seemingly Trivial Events Sometimes Evoke Strong Emotional Reactions. The Role of Social Exchange Rule Violations. In: The Journal of Social Psychology 155 (6), S. 559-575. DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2015.1084985
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26331429 Abstract: People sometimes display strong emotional reactions to events that appear disproportionate to the tangible magnitude of the event. Although previous work has addressed the role that perceived disrespect and unfairness have on such reactions, this study examined the role of perceived social exchange rule violations more broadly. Participants (N = 179) rated the effects of another person's behavior on important personal outcomes, the degree to which the other person had violated fundamental rules of social exchange, and their reactions to the event. Results showed that perceptions of social exchange rule violations accounted for more variance in participants' reactions than the tangible consequences of the event. The findings support the hypothesis that responses that appear disproportionate to the seriousness of the eliciting event are often fueled by perceived rule violations that may not be obvious to others. zitiert von 5
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(2015) : Socialization in Infancy and Childhood In: Wright, James D.: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition): Oxford: Elsevier, S. 866-872
Abstract: This article discusses the role of family in the process of socialization in infancy and childhood. This takes several forms, including treating the family as a social system in which parent–child, marital, and sibling subsystems are recognized. The family socialization process is also recognized within an ecological perspective to appreciate how family environments shape and constrain their socialization practices. Specifically, the impact of social change, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity is discussed.
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(2015): Cognitive Enhancement and Anthropotechnological Change. In: Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 19 (2), S. 166-190. DOI: 10.5840/techne20159834
Abstract: Abstract: This article focuses on cognitive enhancement technologies (CET) and their possible anthropological implications, and argues for a reconsideration of the human-technology relation so as to be able to better understand and assess these implications. Current debates on cognitive enhancement (CE) consistently disregard the intimate intertwinement of humans and technology as well as the fundamentally technogenic nature of anthropogenesis. Yet, an adequate assessment of CET requires an in-depth and up-to-date re-conceptualization of both. Employing insights from the work of Bernard Stiegler, this article proposes an organology and pharmacology of CE. What is typical about new CET is their interiorizing nature, which can be expected to fundamentally reshape organological configurations. Starting from the premise that CE is a phenomenon that predominantly unfolds within the current conjuncture of cognitive capitalism, I will present the issue of cognitive proletarianization as being of crucial importance for considering CE. I conclude by providing some methodological guidelines for the development of a positive pharmacology of CET and by suggesting that CET should be considered as technologies of the self sensu Michel Foucault.
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(2015): Hostile sexism (de)motivates women's social competition intentions. The contradictory role of emotions. In: The British journal of social psychology 54 (3), S. 483-499. DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12100 Abstract: In the present research, we examine the ways in which exposure to hostile sexism influences women's competitive collective action intentions. Prior to testing our main model, our first study experimentally induced high versus low levels of security-comfort with the aim of providing experimental evidence for the proposed causal link between these emotions and intentions to engage in social competition. Results showed that lower levels of security-comfort reduced women's readiness to compete socially with men. Experiment 2 investigated the effect of hostile sexism on women's emotional reactions and readiness to engage in social competition. Consistent with the proposed model, results showed that exposure to hostile beliefs about women (1) increased anger-frustration and (2) decreased security-comfort. More specifically, exposure to hostile sexism had a positive indirect effect on social competition intentions through anger-frustration, and a negative indirect effect through security-comfort.
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(2015) : Social Driving in Connected Car Environment In: VDE: Proceedings of European Wireless 2015; 21th European Wireless Conference: Frankfurt am Main, Germany: VDE, S. 1-6. Online verfügbar unter https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7147682/
Abstract: Considering how the number of smartphones have increased and also how social networks became part of our daily life, it is predictable that social network driven services are about to dominate the near future. It is also noticeable that more and more external devices are involved in different type of IT solutions. These are smart watches, smarthome devices and even transportation devices. Furthermore, different smart city concepts are also becoming more and more popular. In this paper, we propose a mobile application based smart transportation solution, called Social Driving that combines the smart city concept with green transportation. Social Driving is based on our VehicleICT framework that is also introduced in this report. The base idea is that drivers can monitor different parameters of their cars and driving style, such as fuel consumption and CO2 emission, furthermore, they can compare these values with other drivers using similar cars and similar engine types. The solution creates different statistics and as a rewarding system motivates people to use their cars more efficiently. We describe architecture of the social driving concept, show and elaborate different measurement results derived from test drives and discuss the effectiveness of the system.
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(2015): Request Strategies in Professional E-mail Correspondence. Insights from the United States Workplace. In: TESL CANADA JOURNAL 32 (2), S. 1-29
Abstract: Despite growing interest in the rhetorical features of e-mail correspondence, this is the first study to examine the request strategies in e-mails written by native English-speaking professionals from a variety of industries in the United States. This study uses Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper's (1989) speech act framework to analyze the request strategies from 450 request head acts. Though often mitigated with lexico-syntactic devices, direct requests occurred at about two and one half times the rate of indirect requests, and there was some variation in request strategy according to request category, gender, status, and social distance. Although the imperative was used most frequently across all gender, status, and social distance groups, senders did not choose it-the most direct strategy-as often with recipients to whom they wrote direct requests most frequently. This shows that senders may prefer particular direct or indirect strategies over others with certain recipients. Moreover, senders often used more mitigators with recipients to whom they more frequently wrote direct requests, thus suggesting that the politeness of a request cannot be judged solely by the request strategy chosen. As the first corpus-based study that examines authentic request e-mails in the North American workplace, this study offers important pedagogical implications for professional e-mail composition.
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(2015): Psychoanalyse und Neurowissenschaften. Chancen, Grenzen, Kontroversen. 1. Aufl.. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer (Psychoanalyse im 21. Jahrhundert)
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(2015) : Robot Form and Motion Influences Social Attention: 2015 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI): Portland, Oregon, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, S. 43-50
Abstract: For social robots to be successful, they need to be accepted by humans. Human-robot interaction (HRI) researchers are aware of the need to develop the right kinds of robots with appropriate, natural ways for them to interact with humans. However, much of human perception and cognition occurs outside of conscious awareness, and how robotic agents engage these processes is currently unknown. Here, we explored automatic, reflexive social attention, which operates outside of conscious control within a fraction of a second to discover whether and how these processes generalize to agents with varying humanlikeness in their form and motion. Using a social variant of a well-established spatial attention paradigm, we tested whether robotic or human appearance and/or motion influenced an agent’s ability to capture or direct implicit social attention. In each trial, either images or videos of agents looking to one side of space (a head turn) were presented to human observers. We measured reaction time to a peripheral target as an index of attentional capture and direction. We found that all agents, regardless of humanlike form or motion, were able to direct spatial attention in the cued direction. However, differences in the form of the agent affected attentional capture, i.e., how quickly the observers could disengage attention from the agent and respond to the target. This effect further interacted with whether the spatial cue (head turn) was presented through static images or videos. Overall whereas reflexive social attention operated in the same manner for human and robot social agents for spatial attentional cueing, robotic appearance, as well as whether the agent was static or moving significantly influenced unconscious attentional capture processes. These studies reveal how unconscious social attentional processes operate when the agent is a human vs. a robot, add novel manipulations to the literature such as the role of visual motion, and provide a link between attention studies in HRI, and decades of research on unconscious social attention in experimental psychology and vision science.Categories and Subject Descriptors H.1.2 [Models and Principles]: User/Machine Systems -Human factors. H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces - Evaluation/methodology, User-Centered DesignGeneral TermsDesign, Human Factors.
Keywords: Angemessen(heit) (von Technik), automatic attention, Biology, Cognition, conscious awareness, conscious control, cued direction, Experimental Psychology, head turn, HRI, human appearance, Human Factors, human observers, human perception, humanlike form, Humanlikeness, human-robot interaction, Human-robot interaction researchers, ieee xplore, implicit social attention, Kinematics, Mobile robots, motion influences social attention, PSYCHOLOGY, reflexive social attention, robot design, robot form, Robot sensing systems, robotic agents, robotic appearance, Social Attention, social robots, social variant, Spatial Attention, spatial attention paradigm, spatial attentional cueing, spatial cue, static images, Time measurement, unconscious attentional capture processes, unconscious social attention, unconscious social attentional processes, user interfaces, User/Machine Systems-Human factors, varying humanlikeness, Videos, visual motion, Visual Perception -
(2015): Embodied social cognition. Cham: Springer (Cognitive systems monographs)
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(2015) : Socially embodied human-robot interaction: Addressing human emotions with theories of embodied cognition In: Vallverdú, Jordi: Handbook of research on synthesizing human emotion in intelligent systems and robotics: Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference/IGI Global (Advances in computational intelligence and robotics (ACIR) book series; ISSN: 2327-0411 (Print), 2327-042X (Electronic)), S. 169-190. Online verfügbar unter http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2015-24110-007&site=ehost-live
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7278-9.ch007 Abstract: A fundamental challenge of human interaction with socially interactive robots, compared to other interactive products, comes from them being embodied. The embodied nature of social robots questions to what degree humans can interact ‘naturally’ with robots, and what impact the interaction quality has on the user experience (UX). UX is fundamentally about emotions that arise and form in humans through the use of technology in a particular situation. This chapter aims to contribute to the field of human-robot interaction (HRI) by addressing, in further detail, the role and relevance of embodied cognition for human social interaction, and consequently what role embodiment can play in HRI, especially for socially interactive robots. Furthermore, some challenges for socially embodied interaction between humans and socially interactive robots are outlined and possible directions for future research are presented. It is concluded that the body is of crucial importance in understanding emotion and cognition in general, and, in particular, for a positive user experience to emerge when interacting with socially interactive robots. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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(2015): Soziale Roboter und soziale Räume: Eine Affordanz-basierte Konzeption zum rücksichtsvollen Handeln. Dissertation. Hamburg. Online verfügbar unter http://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2015/7486/
Abstract: Wenn autonome Akteure wie Menschen und Roboter im realen Raum Handeln, dann können unterschiedliche Typen räumlicher Konflikte entstehen, die daraus resultieren, dass Handlungen Raum besetzen. Um Konflikte dieser Art zu verhindern, müssen soziale Roboter die Fähigkeit besitzen, Rücksicht auf die Handlungen von Menschen und von anderen Robotern zu nehmen.
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Lindner, Reinhard; Hummel, Jana (Hg.) (2015): Psychotherapie in der Geriatrie. Aktuelle psychodynamische und verhaltenstherapeutische Ansätze. 1. Aufl.. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer
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(2015) : YouQoS - Combining Quality of Service with Network Neutrality: Broadband Coverage in Germany. 9th ITG Symposium. Proceedings: Berlin, Germany: VDE, S. 1-6. Online verfügbar unter https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7109502/
Abstract: Broadband Internet connectivity is often limited by the last mile, which's average achievable data rate is rising only slowly. Quality of Service (QoS) measures to improve on existing lines may easily violate regulatory rules for privacy and network neutrality. YouQoS is a concept for user-controlled traffic management, which preserves privacy and network neutrality, while offering supreme Quality of Service especially in downstream direction. The idea is that users provide information on general preferences and situation-specific needs that an arbiter in the network uses to send flow configuration commands to the respective access network equipment. The arbiter, called the YouQoS Server, is a broker that on the one hand prevents user-provided private information from leaking, and on the other hand prevents the creation of malicious commands towards network operator equipment. In future Software-Defined Access Networks (SDAN) the only remaining physical devices will be simplified Software- Defined Network (SDN) Datapaths. To investigate options for YouQoS usage together with those SDN Datapaths, the YouQoS Box was defined. It implements all necessary YouQoS functionalities, like packet inspection, QoS marking, and shaping, in order to identify the most efficient function splits. With this device, it will be possible to add advanced functionality and full visibility to QoS experimentation. The YouQoS Box might even be added to current access networks between Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS) and DSL Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) to provide the YouQoS service.