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2018
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(2018): Tastes and practices in three Australian cultural fields. Television, music and sport. In: Media International Australia 167 (1), S. 121-125. DOI: 10.1177/1329878X18767937
Abstract: This article introduces the Themed Section of Media International Australia, 'Tastes and practices in three Australian cultural fields: television, music and sport', which presents selected findings of the 2014-2015 survey of Australian cultural practices conducted as part of the Australian Research Council project Australian Cultural Fields: National and Transnational Dynamics (DP140101970). It briefly discusses the social organisation of the production of consumption of Australia in the period between the national cultural policies Creative Nation (1994) and Creative Australia (2013). The Introduction then outlines the methodology underlying the Australian Cultural Fields survey that, in building on the approach of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, was developed to assess how far entrenched cultural hierarchies and inequalities have been displaced by broadened patterns of access to arts and culture. Of particular concern is the role of traditional and new forms of cultural capital in differentiating patterns of cultural consumption and participation across relations of class, gender and ethnicity, which the distinctive survey design and administration seek to capture in the Australian context. Bringing together the methods of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Cluster Analysis, each article highlights specific aspects of the relations between cultural tastes, practices, and social positions in contemporary Australia via an engagement with contemporary debates in cultural capital theory. The contributions on television (by Tony Bennett, Modesto Gayo, and David Rowe), music (Ben Dibley and Modesto Gayo) and sport (Modesto Gayo and David Rowe) address the dynamics of these Australian cultural fields, while also indicating the significance of their research findings for studies of other nationally-constituted cultural fields, as well as the contested play of cultural capital within nations and in the transnational/global sphere.
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(2018): Collaborative Assembly in Hybrid Manufacturing Cells: An Integrated Framework for Human–Robot Interaction. In: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 15 (3), S. 1178-1192. DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2017.2748386
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2017.2748386 Abstract: Recent emergence of safe, lightweight, and flexible robots has opened a new realm for human-robot collaboration in manufacturing. Utilizing such robots with the new human-robot interaction (HRI) functionality to interact closely and effectively with a human co-worker, we propose a novel framework for integrating HRI factors (both physical and social interactions) into the robot motion controller for human-robot collaborative assembly tasks in a manufacturing hybrid cell. To meet human physical demands in such assembly tasks, an optimal control problem is formulated for physical HRI (pHRI)-based robot motion control to keep pace with human motion progress. We further augment social HRI (sHRI) into the framework by considering a computational model of the human worker's trust in his/her robot partner as well as robot facial expressions. The human worker's trust in robot is computed and used as a metric for path selection as well as a constraint in the optimal control problem. Robot facial expression is displayed for providing additional visual feedbacks to the human worker. We evaluate the proposed framework by designing a robotic experimental testbed and conducting a comprehensive study with a human-in-the-loop. Results of this paper show that compared to the manual adjustments of robot velocity, an autonomous controller based on pHRI, pHRI and sHRI with trust, or pHRI and sHRI with trust, and emotion result in 34%, 39%, and 44% decrease in human workload and 21%, 32%, and 60% increase in robot's usability, respectively. Compared to the manual framework, human trust in robot increases by 38% and 42%, respectively, in the latter two autonomous frameworks. Moreover, the overall efficiency in terms of assembly time remains the same.
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(2018): Styles of humor and social skills in students. Gender differences. In: Current Psychology 14 (2). DOI: 10.1007/s12144-017-9770-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-017-9770-x Abstract: Styles of humor and social skills could significantly determine a person’s functioning. This study aimed to analyze whether styles of humor and social skills correlate, and also the relation that links these variables according to gender. We employed the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) and the Social Skills Scale (EHS, in Spanish) to assess 643 participants. The results showed that males used styles of humor (Affiliative, Self-enhancing, Aggressive and Self-defeating) more than females. We found gender differences for social skills only in the factors Expression of disapproval (higher scores for females) and Say no and interrupt interactions (higher scores for males). The data indicate correlations among the factors styles of humor and social skills, but not in them all. When we formed groups that allowed the classification of participants according to styles of humor and social skills, females showed a more even distribution, while three of every four males obtained h igh leve ls for styles of humor (except for Self-defeating humor) and social skills (except for Making requests). The model created with styles of humor and social skills indicated an optimum fit: χ2(25) = 56.921 p < 0.001; χ2/gl =2.27; CFI = 0.97; NFI = 0.94; TLI = 0.94; RMSEA = 0.044, 95%CI (0.029–0.060), with minor gender differences in the relation between styles of humor and social skills. In conclusion, this research shows how males scored higher than females for all four humor styles and dimensions, and not only for negative humor styles as in previous research works. We found that gender differences for social skills revealed only two factors, which may be related to the use of negative humor styles (Expression of disapproval and Say no and interrupt interactions). Finally, one in every three males and two in every three females had problems in some, or several, sections to manage styles of humor and social skills. Hence we should work on this matter in classrooms. Furthe r resear ch on the interpersonal context of humor and the role of gender in humor styles and social skills is warranted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
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(2018): Urban robotics. Towards responsible innovations for our cities. In: Robotics and Autonomous Systems 100, S. 278-286. DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2017.03.007
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(2018): Assistive Robotic Technology to Combat Social Isolation in Acute Hospital Settings. In: International Journal of Social Robotics 10 (5), S. 607-620. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-017-0421-z
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-017-0421-z Abstract: Social isolation in hospitals is a well established risk factor for complications such as cognitive decline and depression. Assistive robotic technology has the potential to combat this problem, but first it is critical to investigate how hospital patients react to this technology. In order to address this question, we introduced a remotely operated NAO humanoid robot which conversed, made jokes, played music, danced and exercised with patients in a London hospital. In total, 49 patients aged between 18–100 took part in the study, 7 of whom had dementia. Our results show that a majority of patients enjoyed their interaction with NAO. We also found that age and dementia significantly affect the interaction, whereas gender does not. These results indicate that hospital patients enjoy socialising with robots, opening new avenues for future research into the potential health benefits of a social robotic companion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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(2018) : Emotionally Adaptive Driver Voice Alert System for Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) Applications: 2018 International Conference on Smart Systems and Inventive Technology (ICSSIT): Tirunelveli, India: IEEE, S. 509-512
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSIT.2018.8748541 Abstract: Human cognitive analysis catalyzes the innovations in Human Machine Interface (HMI) for a variety of applications. In an Automotive Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), the continuous cognitive interaction of the driver with the assistance system plays a crucial role in enhancing the active safety system. Multiple ADAS functionalities uses a variety of driver alerts through visual, audio and vibrational means to provide a numerous safety alerts to the driver. The effectiveness of any alert system is measured through its success rate in mitigating the actions which are against the alert commands. The actions taken by the driver for the alerts depends heavily on the driver’s moods, which are responsible for driver’s perception in understanding the alerts. Even though the voice alerts are considered as the most effective form of human alerts, the static nature of the voice alerts makes them less effective in making the driver to understand the criticality of the alerts when his moods are abnormal or having a reduced driving concentration levels. An adaptive voice alert system with a cognitive driver synchronization makes the alert penetration successful when the driver’s moods are abnormal or having a reduced driving concentration levels. Here in this paper the adaptive voice alert system is designed using the driver’s emotional cognitive features. The emotionally adaptive voice alert system changes the voice alerts as according to the moods of the driver, which are measured by Deep Learning based Emotion Recognition System. The adaptive voice alert system makes the voice enabled HMI effective which improves the vehicle safety.
Keywords: active safety system, adaptive driver voice alert system, Adaptive systems, Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), advanced driver assistance system applications, Advanced driver assistance systems, alert commands, alert penetration successful, automotive advanced driver assistance system, Cognition, cognitive driver synchronization, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), driver alerts, driver information systems, emotion recognition, emotion recognition system, Emotion Recognition System (ERS), emotionally adaptive voice alert system, human alerts, human cognitive analysis, Human Computer Interaction, Human Machine Interface (HMI), ieee xplore, Künstliche Intelligenz, learning (artificial intelligence), Monitoring, natural language interfaces, safety alerts, Vehicles, voice alerts -
(2018): Menschen reagieren emotional auf Roboter. In: Report Psychologie 43 (10). Online verfügbar unter HTTP://sfx.hbz-nrw.de/sfx_bie?genre=article&isbn=&issn=03449602&title=Report%20Psychologie&volume=43&issue=10&date=20180101&atitle=Menschen%20reagieren%20emotional%20auf%20Roboter&aulast=Schaffmann%2C%20Christa&spage=420&sid=EBSCO%3APSYNDEX%3A%20Literature%20and%20Audiovisual%20Media%20with%20PSYNDEX%20Tests&pid=
Abstract: Kurz informiert wird über Forschungsbefunde, die zeigen, dass Personen auf Roboter, die eigene Gefühle aussprechen, mit einem Sozialverhalten reagieren, dass dem Umgang mit Menschen ähnelt. So passten sie sich den geäußerten Wünschen an, entwickelten Emotionen gegenüber dem Roboter, empfanden ihm gegenüber Empathie, halfen ihm häufiger und sprachen ihm menschliche Eigenschaften zu.
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(2018): Warum wir wissen, was wir tun. Eine Explikation des Handlungsvollzugs mit Aristoteles, Anscombe, Husserl und Wittgenstein. 1st ed.. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag (Edition Moderne Postmoderne). Online verfügbar unter https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/gbv/detail.action?docID=5491839
Abstract: Cover -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Handlungen vom Handeln her denken -- 3. Erlebte Ereignisse -- 4. Intersubjektive Erlebnisse -- 5. Schluss: Warum wir wissen, was wir tun -- 6. Siglenverzeichnis -- 7. Literatur
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(2018) : Moral robots In: Johnson, L. Syd M.; Rommelfanger, Karen S. (Hg.): The Routledge handbook of neuroethics: New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge handbooks in applied ethics), S. 363-377
Abstract: The main reason for raising the question about the ethical behavior of robots is the rapid progress in the development of autonomous social robots that are specifically created to be deployed in sensitive human environments, from elder and health care settings to law enforcement and military contexts. Clearly, such tasks and environments are very different from traditional factory environments (for example, for welding robots). Hence, these new social robots will require higher degrees of autonomy (i.e., a capacity for independent, self-directed action) and decision-making than any previously developed machine, given that they will face a much more complex, open world. They might be required to acquire new knowledge on the fly to accomplish a never-before-encountered task. Moreover, they will likely face humans who are not specifically trained to interact with them, and robots thus need to be responsive to instructions by novices and feel ’natural’ to humans even in unstructured interactions. At these levels of autonomy and flexibility in near-future robots, there will be countless ways in which robots might make mistakes, violate a user’s expectations and moral norms, or threaten the user’s physical or psychological safety. These social robots must therefore also be moral robots. Thus, for autonomous social robots deployed in human societies, three key questions arise: (1) What moral expectations do humans have for social robots? (2) What moral competence can and should such robots realize? (3) What should be the moral standing of these machines (if any)? The first question, about moral expectations, follows from the well-established fact that autonomous social robots, especially those with natural-language abilities, are treated in many ways like humans, regardless of whether such treatment was intended or anticipated by the robot designers. In fact, there is mounting evidence that humans have very clear expectations of robot capacities based on the robot’s appearance and people’s perceptions of the robot behaviors. We will review some of this work in the third section. The second question, about moral competence, arises from the need to endow robots with sufficient capacities to operate safely in human societies. Answers to this question would ideally build on answers to the first question and provide mechanisms for robots to process social and moral norms in ways that humans expect. In addition, the design of the robots’ control systems should ensure that robots behave ethically according to the norms of the society in which they are deployed. In this chapter, we will focus on the first two questions, discussing both human expectations and computational architectural mechanisms that will allow robots to live up to those expectations while leaving a detailed discussion of the third question to legal experts and philosophers We will not focus on the philosophical debate about agency and personhood. Rather, we will assume an operational behavioral definition of a ’moral robot’. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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(2018): Less Power, Greater Conflict. In: Social Psychology 49 (1), S. 47-62. DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000327Keywords: POWER, Sozialpsychologie
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(2018): Highly identified power-holders feel responsible. The interplay between social identification and social power within groups. In: The British journal of social psychology 57 (1), S. 112-129. DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12225
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28983928 Abstract: Power relations affect dynamics within groups. Power-holders' decisions not only determine their personal outcomes, but also the outcomes of others in the group that they control. Yet, power-holders often tend to overlook this responsibility to take care of collective interests. The present research investigated how social identification - with the group to which both the powerful and the powerless belong - alters perceived responsibility among power-holders (and the powerless). Combining research on social power and social identity, we argue that power-holders perceive more responsibility than the powerless when strongly (rather than when weakly) identifying with the group. A study among leaders and an experiment supported this, highlighting that although power-holders are often primarily concerned about personal outcomes, they do feel responsible for considering others' interests when these others are included in the (social) self.
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(2018): Incorporating a gender approach in the hospitality industry. Female executives’ perceptions. In: International Journal of Hospitality Management, S. 184-193. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2018.05.008
Abstract: Despite the increasing presence of women in the hospitality labour market, empirical evidence shows persistent horizontal and vertical segregation, as well as a pay gap - a situation that perpetuates lost opportunities for the industry. Based on Barbara Risman’s model “Gender as a Social Structure” as a leading reference, the paper provides a gender based approach for the hospitality industry. Risman’s three levels of analysis (Individual, Interactional and Institutional) are completed with an Intersectional level, conforming the “Gender as a Social Structure in the Hospitality Industry” model. This model aims at identifying factors that cause discrimination among female executives. The methodology is based on thirty semi-structured in-depth interviews with female executives in the Spanish hospitality industry. The results show that the influence of self-imposed barriers, gender roles, problems associated with work-life conciliation and issues related to gendered organizations are the main factors that hinder achieving gender equality.
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(2018) : Interkulturelle Kompetenz In: Machleidt, Wielant; Kluge, Ulrike; Sieberer, Marcel Gerd; Heinz, Andreas; Agorastos, Agorastos (Hg.): Praxis der interkulturellen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie: Migration und psychische Gesundheit: 2. Auflage: München: Elsevier, S. 161-169
Abstract: Interkulturelle Kompetenz erfordert Wissen über das Fremdsein, eigene Positionierung, Kenntnisse anderer Kulturen, Religionen, Gebräuche. Sie entwickelt sich im ständigen Abgleich des „Eigenen“ mit dem „Anderen“. Um sie gerade nicht nur einzelnen Sondersituationen, sondern dem gewöhnlichen Lebensalltag anzupassen, erscheint eine kritische Infragestellung der eigenen, gerade kulturellen Identität geboten. Dies gilt in besonderem Maß für psychiatriespezifische Begegnungen, in denen der Fremde sich selbst oft fremd ist. Nach einer skizzenhaften Darlegunggrundlegender Begrifflichkeiten und der Brüchigkeit allzu enger Zuordnungen wird auf die Möglichkeit verwiesen, sich an Orientierungssysteme zu halten, die dabei helfen können, fremdes Denken und Handeln verständlich und vermittelbar zu machen. An einem Fallbeispiel wird die Kontextgebundenheit interkultureller Begegnung dargestellt und erörtert. Auf dem Boden einer so gewonnenen hermeneutischen Ausrichtung, darauf wird zuletzt verwiesen, kann es sinnvoll und erfolgversprechend sein, durch inszenatorischübende Verfahren interkulturelle Kompetenz in Lernprogrammen zu „erwerben“
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(2018) : Interkulturelle Kompetenz In: Machleidt, Wielant; Kluge, Ulrike; Sieberer, Marcel Gerd; Heinz, Andreas; Agorastos, Agorastos (Hg.): Praxis der interkulturellen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie: Migration und psychische Gesundheit: 2. Auflage: München: Elsevier, S. 189-197
Abstract: siehe pdf
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(2018): Investigating People’s Rapport Building and Hindering Behaviors When Working with a Collaborative Robot. In: Int J of Soc Robotics 10 (1), S. 147-161. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-017-0441-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-017-0441-8 Abstract: Modern industrial robots are increasingly moving toward collaborating with people on complex tasks as team members, and away from working in isolated cages that are separated from people. Collaborative robots are programmed to use social communication techniques with people, enabling human team members to use their existing inter-personal skills to work with robots, such as speech, gestures, or gaze. Research is increasingly investigating how robots can use higher-level social structures such as team dynamics or conflict resolution. One particularly important aspect of human–human teamwork is rapport building: these are everyday social interactions between people that help to develop professional relationships by establishing trust, confidence, and collegiality, but which are formally peripheral to a task at hand. In this paper, we report on our investigations of how and if people apply similar rapport-building behaviors to robot collaborators. First, we synthesized existing human–human rapport knowledge into an initial human–robot interaction framework; this framework includes verbal and non-verbal behaviors, both for rapport building and rapport hindering, that people can be expected to exhibit. We developed a novel mock industrial task scenario that emphasizes ecological validity, and creates a range of social interactions necessary for investigating rapport. Finally, we report on a qualitative study that investigates how people use rapport hindering or building behaviors in our industrial scenario, which reflects how people may interact with robots in industrial settings.
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(2018): Attributions of Morality and Mind to Artificial Intelligence after Real-World Moral Violations. In: Computers in Human Behavior, S. 401-411. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2018.05.014
Abstract: Highlights: •AI’s real-world moral violations only reported 43.5% of the time •Knowledge of algorithm increases moral violation perception •AI not organization, programmer, or use is attributed wrongness •AI attributed mind, awareness, intentionality, justification, and responsibility
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(2018) : Social groups. In: Ludwig, Kirk; Janković, Marija (Hg.): The Routledge handbook of collective intentionality: London; New York: Routledge (Routledge handbooks in philosophy), S. 277-289
Abstract: In this chapter, I outline rival positions on the ontology of social groups, ontological individualism and realism (or holism). Ontological individualism maintains that ultimately we need only refer to individual persons and their relations when describing the social world (i.e. the domain of human interaction), offering explanations of social phenomena, forming judgments or developing theories. Realism or holism by contrast is the thesis that reference to social groups is ineliminable from such discourse and that they are entities in their own right. A social group is a type of object over which we quantify in our folk and formal social scientific discourses. Next I explain two key points of dispute between individualism and holism. First, can groups be identified with sets of individuals? Second, can talk of social groups be wholly analyzed in terms of reference to individuals and their relations? If the answer to either of these questions is 'yes,' then it is possible for individuals (in relations) to enjoy the kind of explanatory priority which eviscerates holism of substance or interest. I sketch reasons why the answer to each is 'no' and propose there is at least a prima facie case to prefer holism. Third, I consider whether shared or collective intentions are necessary for individuals to constitute a social group and present reasons to show that they are not. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
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Shen, Weiming; Luo, Junzhou; Barthès, Jean-Paul; Dong, Fang; Zhang, Jinghui; Zhu, Haibin (Hg.) (2018): Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD). May 9-11, 2018, Nanjing, China. 2018 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD). Nanjing, China, 5/9/2018 - 5/11/2018. IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Dongnan-Daxue; IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; Cscwd. Piscataway, NJ: IEEEKeywords: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Design
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(2018): Design for social accessibility: Incorporating social factors in the design of accessible technologies. ProQuest Information & Learning.
Abstract: Assistive technologies are intended to help people with disabilities accomplish everyday tasks. Yet, such technologies are traditionally designed mainly with functionality in mind, not with consideration for social situations of use. As a result, assistive technologies can be awkward-looking and socially awkward to use, leading to misperceptions about these technologies and their users. These misperceptions can impact users’ sense of self-efficacy and self-confidence, leading assistive technology users to feel self-conscious when using devices in public or social settings, ultimately limiting access. Furthermore, most technology design approaches either assume accessibility is ’someone else’s job’ or that functional accessibility is the only focus, promoting an inclination to overlook accessibility in design overall and preventing designers from fully considering social aspects of accessibility. In this dissertation, I present original empirical studies that investigate the social implications of assistive technology use. I conceptualize ’socially accessible design,’ and examine how to effectively incorporate social factors into user-centered design techniques. To address the negative and stigmatizing social perceptions associated with assistive technologies, I define Social Accessibility as a new property of accessible technologies extending our understanding of accessibility to include considerations of both functional usability and social situations of use. I present Design for Social Accessibility as a guiding perspective and a set of design tools and techniques emphasizing social factors in technology design. Through a series of design workshops, I demonstrate how designers can use Design for Social Accessibility by: focusing on functional usability and social situations of use; increasing awareness for how design can engender, rather than impede, access for people with visual impairments, particularly within social contexts; and working with users with and without visual impairments in assessing when design influences self-confidence and self-consciousness. In this dissertation, I: (1) define social accessibility as a new property of technology artifacts that extends accessibility to include functional and social factors; (2) demonstrate that Design for Social Accessibility can help improve the design of technologies usable by people with visual impairments when applied to design methods by bringing awareness to designers about how design engenders or impedes access in functional and social factors of use; and (3) develop and verify a tool that can help designers assess the social accessibility of technology design. The contributions of this dissertation are conceptual‐-motivating the need for, and defining social accessibility and how it relates to functional accessibility; and empirical and methodological‐-showing how social factors influence assistive technology use and access, and applying findings to increase awareness, change perspectives, and improve tools and techniques for the design of socially accessible technologies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
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(2018): A Review of Emotion Recognition Using Physiological Signals. In: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 18 (7). DOI: 10.3390/s18072074
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29958457 Abstract: Emotion recognition based on physiological signals has been a hot topic and applied in many areas such as safe driving, health care and social security. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review on physiological signal-based emotion recognition, including emotion models, emotion elicitation methods, the published emotional physiological datasets, features, classifiers, and the whole framework for emotion recognition based on the physiological signals. A summary and comparation among the recent studies has been conducted, which reveals the current existing problems and the future work has been discussed.
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(2018): Sociology. Moral dialogues and normative change. In: The Social Science Journal 55 (1), S. 19-22. DOI: 10.1016/j.soscij.2018.02.005
Abstract: Moral dialogues are one mechanism of cultural change, allowing communities to resolve conflicts and revise the fundamental norms and values governing their members’ relationships. This essay illustrates the moral dialogue process with the debates over sexual harassment in the Trump era. Victimized women launched a transnational “megalogue” that pervaded politics, business, entertainment, academia, and other spheres. It transformed norms, institutions, and enforcement of acceptable behavior in employment and in public, resulting in a new shared moral understanding. However, the fact that the President is not punished for immorality demonstrates that normative change ultimately requires the rule of law.
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(2018): Punishing an “unfair” leader. People as pragmatic politicians with in-group but fair-but-biased prosecutors with out-group. In: IIMB Management Review, S. 77-90. DOI: 10.1016/j.iimb.2018.01.002
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iimb.2018.01.002 Abstract: Contrary to the fairness expected in the modern world, people seem to treat in-group members (us) better than out-group members (them). Do people then defend in-group members as politicians but prosecute out-group members in a fair-but-biased manner? Given information about injustices by a male or female manager, participants made outrage, attribution, attitude, and punishment responses to the manager. In-group defence held in the first three responses but fairness in punishment. However, the seeming fairness in punishment arose from bias suppression by outrage and mediation by attitude, and the order of mediation was from outrage to attitude and not vice versa.
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(2018): Friendship with a robot: Children’s perception of similarity between a robot’s physical and virtual embodiment that supports diabetes self-management. In: Patient Education and Counseling 101 (7), S. 1248-1255. DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2018.02.008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2018.02.008 Abstract: Objective: The PAL project develops a conversational agent with a physical (robot) and virtual (avatar) embodiment to support diabetes self-management of children ubiquitously. This paper assesses 1) the effect of perceived similarity between robot and avatar on children's friendship towards the avatar, and 2) the effect of this friendship on usability of a self-management application containing the avatar (a) and children’s motivation to play with it (b). Methods: During a four-day diabetes camp in the Netherlands, 21 children participated in interactions with both agent embodiments. Questionnaires measured perceived similarity, friendship, motivation to play with the app and its usability. Results: Children felt stronger friendship towards the physical robot than towards the avatar. The more children perceived the robot and its avatar as the same agency, the stronger their friendship with the avatar was. The stronger their friendship with the avatar, the more they were motivated to play with the app and the higher the app scored on usability. Conclusion: The combination of physical and virtual embodiments seems to provide a unique opportunity for building ubiquitous long-term child-agent friendships. Practice implications: an avatar complementing a physical robot in health care could increase children’s motivation and adherence to use self-management support systems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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(2018) : A Wizard of Oz Study of Human Interest Towards Robot Initiated Human-Robot Interaction: 2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN): Nanjing, China: IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, S. 515-521
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525583 Abstract: Service robots have become a widely used tool in human-friendly assistive tasks in many aspects including social environments. Maintaining a sustainable interaction with humans is essential in performing assistive tasks in this regard. Therefore, a robot must be equipped with intelligent cognitive skills in decision making as well as in making friendly relationships with its human user. Human-like capabilities such as initiating a conversation at the right moment without distracting and maintaining an appropriate interaction are important cues in this context. This paper presents a human study conducted by means of a wizard-of-oz (WoZ) experiment to identify the behavioral features in humans that can be utilized by an assistive robot in a domestic environment to assess the situation prior to an interaction. Both verbal and nonverbal responses of participants towards an interaction initiated by a robot were recorded and analyzed to identify human behavioral changes that portray an interest towards interaction. The experiment was conducted in a simulated domestic environment and findings of the experiment are presented and discussed so that these findings could be made use of when designing human-like social robots in future. Furthermore, human behavioral changes observed during the study are analyzed and critical observations are highlighted.
Keywords: Angemessen(heit) (von Technik), assistive robot, Attitude control, Cognition, Decision Making, Emotional Intelligence, human behavioral changes, Human Factors, human interest, Human robot interaction, human user, human-friendly assistive tasks, human-like social robots, human-robot interaction, ieee xplore, intelligent cognitive skills, interaction initiation, robot initiated human-robot interaction, service robot, Social Environments, Social intelligence, Task Analysis, Tools, wizard of oz, wizard-of-oz experiment, WoZ experiment -
(2018): Exceptional technologies. A continental philosophy of technology. London: Bloomsbury Academic
Abstract: "A discussion of the rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of technology and the humanities, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary developments in Continental philosophy and philosophy of technology. Philosophy of technology regularly draws on key thinkers in the Continental tradition, including Husserl, Heidegger, and Foucault. Yet because of the problematic legacy of the 'empirical turn', it often criticizes 'bad' continental tendencies - lyricism, pessimism, and an outdated view of technology as an autonomous, transcendental force. This misconception is based on a faulty image of Continental thought, and in addressing it Smith productively redefines our concept of technology. By closely engaging key texts, and by examining 'exceptional technologies' such as imagined, failed, and impossible technologies that fall outside philosophy of technology's current focus, this book offers a practical guide to thinking about and using continental philosophy and philosophy of technology. It outlines and enacts three key characteristics of philosophy as practiced in the continental tradition: close reading of the history of philosophy; focus on critique; and openness to other disciplinary fields. Smith deploys the concept of exceptional technologies to provide a novel way of widening discussion in philosophy of technology, navigating the relationship between philosophy of technology and Continental philosophy; the history of both these fields; the role of imagination in relation to technologies; and the social function of technologies themselves."--Bloomsbury Publishing