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  • Kaiser, Florian G. (2006): A moral extension of the theory of planned behavior. Norms and anticipated feelings of regret in conservationism. In: Personality and Individual Differences 41 (1), S. 71-81. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.028

    Abstract: A twofold morally-extended general version of the planned behavior theory (TPB) is tested using a classical, trait-like conception of individual attitude, which is based on compound measures. First, moral norms are mediated by people's attitude before they affect intention. Second, anticipated feelings of moral regret are included as an additional predictor of intention. Using two cross-sectional surveys of 1,394 German residents, the hypotheses were tested employing structural equation analyses. Including anticipated guilt feelings significantly and uniquely contributed to an overall explanatory power of people's intention to act conservationally of 70% and 92%. Surprisingly, self-interest is less significant for the TPB in the environmental domain, as attitudes largely represent moral norms (i.e., 89% and 100% shared variance).

  • Kang, Sun-Mee; Day, Jeanne D.; Meara, Naomi M. (2006) : Soziale und emotionale Intelligenz. Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede In: Schulze, Ralf; Freund, Alexander; Roberts, Richard D. (Hg.): Emotionale Intelligenz. Ein internationales Handbuch: Göttingen: Hogrefe, S. 101-115

    Abstract: Um ein einheitliches Verständnis von emotionaler und sozialer Intelligenz zu erleichtern und kollaborative Forschung in diesen Bereichen voranzutreiben, werden historische Entwicklungen und empirische Befunde zum Thema soziale und emotionale Intelligenz vorgelegt. Der Überblick konzentriert sich in erster Linie auf eine klare Konzeptualisierung der Konstrukte sowie auf Fragen nach testtheoretischen Gütekriterien wie interne Konsistenz und Kriteriumsvalidität. In den Vergleich von emotionaler und sozialer Intelligenz werden auch Komponenten akademischer Intelligenz mit einbezogen. Des Weiteren liegt der Fokus auf Problemen bei der Interpretation von Forschungsergebnissen, welche durch das Fehlen theoretischer Kohärenz in den zugrundeliegenden empirischen Untersuchungen verursacht wurden. Es wird geschlussfolgert, dass soziale und emotionale Intelligenz sich überschneiden, multidimensional und voneinander abhängig sind. Zukünftige Forschung sollte sich auf folgende Themen konzentrieren: Übernahme von sinnvollen Begriffsunterscheidungen, wie sie aus der Literatur zu akademischer Intelligenz bekannt sind (zum Beispiel fluide vs. kristalline Intelligenz), Differenzierung von Komponenten beider Konstrukte (zum Beispiel Relation und Relevanz von Wissen über sich selbst und Wissen über andere) und weitere Entwicklung von - auch neuartigen - Verfahren.

  • Karnath, H.-O.; Thier, P. (Hg.) (2006): Neuropsychologie. s.l.: Springer

  • Kirkman, Bradley L.; Lowe, Kevin B.; Gibson, Cristina B. (2006): A quarter century of Culture's Consequences: a review of empirical research incorporating Hofstede's cultural values framework. In: Journal of International Business Studies 37 (3), S. 285-320. DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400202
  • Knoblauch, Hubert (2006) : Erving Goffman. Die Kultur der Kommunikation In: Quadflieg, Dirk; Moebius, Stephan (Hg.): Kultur: Theorien der Gegenwart: Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, S. 157-169. Online verfügbar unter http://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/isbn.php?isbn=978-3-531-14519-8

     

  • Kruse, L. (2006) : Soziale Normen In: Bierhoff, Hans Werner; Frey, Dieter (Hg.): Handbuch der Sozialpsychologie und Kommunikationspsychologie: Göttingen: Hogrefe (Handbuch der Psychologie), S. 694-701
  • Laireiter, Anton-Rupert; Lager, Caroline (2006): Soziales Netzwerk, soziale Unterstützung und soziale Kompetenz bei Kindern. In: Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie 38 (2), S. 69-78. DOI: 10.1026/0049-8637.38.2.69

    Abstract: Fragestellung: Es werden Zusammenhänge zwischen sozialen Kompetenzen und dem sozialen Netzwerk bei Kindern sowie Effekte des Geschlechts, des Alters, der familiären Situation und des Wohnorts untersucht. Methodik: Es wurden 60 Kinder im Alter zwischen sieben und zehn Jahren querschnittlich mit den Kompetenzskalen (Selbstsicherheit, Selbstbehauptung, Wertschätzung, Kontaktfähigkeit) des "Frankfurter Kinder-Selbstkonzept-Inventars" (FKSI) und dem "Interview zum Sozialen Netzwerk und zur Sozialen Unterstützung für Kinder" (SONET 4-K) untersucht. Ergebnisse: Die kindlichen Netzwerke bestehen im Schnitt aus 17 Personen, die großteils der Familie, dem Freundeskreis und den Peers angehören. 50% bis 60% sind Unterstützer, nur wenige Beziehungen sind belastend. Geschlecht, Alter und Wohnort zeigen keinen Einfluss auf Netzwerk und Kompetenz. Die soziale Kompetenz steht primär mit den affektiven und belastenden Beziehungen und der Unterstützung in Zusammenhang. Die bedeutsamsten Kompetenzvariablen sind Kontaktfähigkeit, Selbstsicherheit und Wertschätzung durch andere; Selbstbehauptungsfähigkeit zeigt generell keinen Einfluss auf das kindliche Netzwerk. Multivariate Analysen weisen auf gegenseitige Beeinflussung von Netzwerk und Kompetenz hin. Schlussfolgerung: Die Befunde legen ein transaktionales Verhältnis von sozialen Beziehungen und sozialer Kompetenz nahe, welches sich vor allem zwischen unterstützenden und belastenden Beziehungen und der Kontaktfähigkeit und Selbstsicherheit abspielt.

  • Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Crozier, Joseph C.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Bates, John E. (2006): A 12-year prospective study of patterns of social information processing problems and externalizing behaviors. In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 34 (5), S. 709-718

  • Larsen, Larissa; Harlan, Sharon L. (2006): Desert dreamscapes. Residential landscape preference and behavior. In: Landscape and Urban Planning 78 (1-2), S. 85-100. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2005.06.002

    Abstract: The residential landscape constitutes a significant portion of the urban environment. With the increasing mobility of our society, many people come to reside in environments with unfamiliar plant communities and environmental conditions. In this research, 232 Phoenix, Arizona homeowners were surveyed to investigate their residential landscape preferences and to what degree these preferences were reflected in their actual behaviors in their front and backyards. Landscape preferences vary between the front and backyard residential landscapes in a manner consistent with [Goffman, E., 1959. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Anchor Books, New York] about the symbolic presentation of self. When a multinomial logistic regression model was constructed to predict front yard landscape preference with the independent variables income, length of residence in the Phoenix area, degree of environmental concern and engagement in desert recreational activities, income was the only significant predictor. In the front yard, lower-income homeowners tend to prefer lawn, middle-income homeowners preferred desert landscaping and higher-income homeowners' preferences were divided between desert and oasis landscape. While backyard landscape preferences varied among income groups, income was not a significant predictor of backyard landscape preference. Landscape preferences for the front and backyard were significantly different and 55% of respondents preferred different landscape typologies for the front and backyards. Overall, for landscape preference in the front yard, form follows class-specific fashion. For landscape preference in the backyard, form is more likely to follow individual fantasy. Landscape preferences were then compared with landscape behaviors. One-third of respondents expressed landscape preferences that were different from their landscape behaviors. However, the development industry has a significant influence on the design and construction of residential neighborhoods in Phoenix [Kirby, A., 2000. All new, improved! Cities 17(l), 1-5]. In an effort to sell homes, developers' anticipate homeowners' tastes and package their homes with desirable front yard 'dreamscapes' [Jencks, C., 1993. Heteropolis: Los Angeles, the Riots and the Strange Beauty of Hetero-Architecture, Academ Editions, London]. Therefore, we hypothesized that the macro-level influence of the developer's landscape legacy would have a greater impact on the front yard's appearance (behavior) than on the backyard's appearance. For the front yard, both the legacy and the homeowner's preference were significant predictors of landscape behavior, but in the backyard, only the homeowner's preference had a significant influence. The manifestations of the residential landscape reflect expressions of self, status, and conceptions of place that combine to create little understood 'dreamscapes'. We must recognize the importance of the front yard as a visible symbol of self, the backyard's role as a personal pleasure ground, and the conflict that may occur when the natural landscape is relatively inhospitable to domestic behaviors.

    Keywords: Design
  • Lee, Billy (2006): Empathy, androids and ’authentic experience’. In: Connection Science 18 (4), S. 419-428. DOI: 10.1080/09540090600868847

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540090600868847 

    Abstract: Androids of the future will require the capacity for bodily experience, in addition to specific cognitive proficiencies. Interpersonal experiences, such as intimacy, empathy and felicity, provide the crucial sense of solidarity and connection that sustains relationships between humans. This study explores relationships between perceptual experience and perceptual competency and discusses implications for the design of people-oriented androids. Findings from an exploratory study of interpersonal perception indicate there is no relationship between objective performance and subjective experience based on thin slices of actor behaviour. However, correlations between experiences indicate that empathy and intimacy are linked and distinct from felicity. Analysis of gender effects indicates gender-distributed roles for empathy and intimacy. These imply design specifications for future androids that may be required to form relationships with people. Some conjectures on the phenomenology of the empathic and the moral android of the future are explored. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Lee, B.; Hope, G. D.; Witts, N. J. (2006) : Could next generation androids get emotionally close? ‘Relational closeness’ from human dyadic interactions: ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human: Hatfield, UK: IEEE, S. 475-479

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314373 

    Abstract: Studies of human-human interactions indicate that the relational dimensions encoded nonverbally between people include intimacy/involvement, status/control, and emotional valence. In assessing nonverbal behavior a key issue concerns the correct level or unit of behavior to code. Low-level codes, such as head nods, eyebrow flashes, and smiles, are concrete enough to be specified objectively. However, a coding scheme based on them may not match the phenomenology of lay people’s experiences of natural interactions. A high-level code, such as values intimacy, reliably distinguishes secure and insecure attachment styles but is underspecified at the concrete, bodily level. This paper considers what level of behavior codes may realistically be mapped onto next generation androids. New ’mid-level’ behavior codes are offered based on an experimental study of relational closeness in human dyadic interactions. These provide act specifications for a possible benchmark of relational closeness. The appropriateness of certain relational behaviors by androids is considered.

  • Looije, R.; Cnossen, F.; Neerincx, M. A. (2006) : Incorporating guidelines for health assistance into a socially intelligent robot: ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human: Hatfield, UK: IEEE, S. 515-520

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314441 

    Abstract: The world population is getting older and more and more people suffer from a chronic disease such as diabetes. The need for medical (self-)care therefore increases, and we think a personal (robot) assistant could help. This paper gives guidelines for self-care that supports and shows how it could be incorporated in a (embodied) personal assistant. These guidelines were derived from motivational interviewing, persuasive technology, and from existing guidelines for personal assistants. Questions this paper addresses include: Is it possible to incorporate them in a personal assistant? Can a robot have the same kind of dialogs as a text interface? A first experiment, conducted with young participants, showed that the guidelines were best expressed in a socially intelligent iCat in comparison with a nonsocially intelligent iCat, a social and nonsocially intelligent Tiggie, and a text interface. Furthermore it showed that people indeed preferred the iCat over the text interface, possibly because the iCat’s social intelligence

  • Lüdemann, Christian (2006): Soziales Kapital und soziale Kontrolle. Zu den Determinanten sozialer Kontrolle in Nachbarschaften. In: Kriminalistik 60 (3), S. 177-183

    Abstract: Anhand der Daten einer schriftlichen Befragung einer geschichteten Zufallsstichprobe von 3612 Hamburger Bürgern wurden Hypothesen zu den Effekten des generellen und lokalen Sozialkapitals auf die von den Bewohnern praktizierte soziale Kontrolle in ihren jeweiligen Stadtteilen überprüft. Aus einer Sichtung bislang vorliegender Studien wurde abgeleitet, dass eine Person umso häufiger Aktivitäten sozialer Kontrolle im Stadtteil ausübt, (1) je größer das generelle soziale Kapital ist, (2) je häufiger Kontakte zu Nachbarn sind, (3) je stärker das Vertrauen zu Nachbarn ist, (4) je höher die kollektive Wirksamkeit ist, (5) je häufiger physische und soziale Unzivilisiertheiten wahrgenommen werden, (6) je häufiger persönliche und indirekte Viktimisierungen sind, (7) je größer die Unzufriedenheit mit dem Wohnen im Stadtteil ist, (8) je länger Bewohner in einem Stadtteil leben und (9) je eher Personen über Wohneigentum verfügen. Die Ergebnisse der durchgeführten Regressionsanalysen, die auf drei verschiedenen Modellen beruhen, bestätigen positive Effekte des generellen Sozialkapitals, der Nachbarschaftskontakte, der wahrgenommenen Unzivilisiertheiten, der indirekten Viktimisierungen im Stadtteil sowie der Wohndauer und des Alters der Befragten auf das Ausmaß an ausgeübter sozialer Kontrolle. Mögliche Erklärungen dafür, dass das Vertrauen zu den Nachbarn keinen bzw. nur einen schwachen Effekt auf Kontrollaktivitäten aufwies, werden erörtert. Abschließend wird auf einige methodische Probleme der Studie eingegangen.

  • Mahaffey, Katherine J.; Marcus, David K. (2006): Interpersonal Perception of Psychopathy: A Social Relations Analysis. In: Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 25 (1), S. 53-74. DOI: 10.1521/jscp.2006.25.1.53
  • Maier, Thomas (2006): Psychosocial and psychodynamic factors influencing health care utilisation. In: Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy 14 (2), S. 69-78. DOI: 10.1007/s10728-006-0013-9

    DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17195575 

    Abstract: This paper aims to elucidate some dysfunctional aspects of health care utilisation by combining concepts from modern systems theory and from psychoanalysis. Contemporary health care in industrialised countries can be conceived as a social system in terms of modern systems theory. According to this theory, social systems are operating on the basis of a 'guiding difference,' which in the case of health care is the distinction between 'healthy' and 'ill.' Its rigidity in adhering to the healthy-ill dichotomy exposes health care to being collusively entangled in the interpersonal defence arrangements of patients. In the psychoanalytic view, individual conflicts can be warded off from consciousness not only by intrapsychic defence, but also by interpersonal defence mechanisms. These mechanisms involve the patients' close social environment, often including doctors and hospitals. The functioning and the motivational structure of health care itself shows features of neurotic defence: not only its representatives, but health care as a whole act in a rigid, obsessive manner in order to separate the healthy from the ill and to battle against (presumed) diseases. This obsession sometimes results in excessive diagnostic activism and in inconsiderate application of aggressive medical treatments. Both are inappropriate with regard to the salient problem of modern medicine: the increase of chronic nonfatal diseases like depression and chronic pain. The described defence mechanisms are unconscious not only to patients but also to health care professionals (let alone health politicians), and are contributing to dysfunctional health care overuse.

  • Mancia, Mauro (2006): Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience. Milano: Springer

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/88-470-0550-7 

    Abstract: Recent scientific studies have brought significant advances in the understanding of basic mental functions such as memory, dreams, identification, repression, which constitute the basis of the psychoanalytical theory. This book focuses on the possibility of interactions between psychoanalysis and neuroscience: emotions and the right hemisphere, serotonin and depression. It is a unique tool for professionals and students in these fields, and for operators of allied disciplines, such as psychology and psychotherapy.

  • Marsh, Kerry L.; Richardson, Michael J.; Baron, Reuben M.; Schmidt, Richard C. (2006): Contrasting Approaches to Perceiving and Acting With Others. In: Ecological Psychology 18 (1), S. 1-38. DOI: 10.1207/s15326969eco1801_1

    Abstract: How and why the presence of a person directly affects the perception and action of another person is a phenomenon that has been approached in a limited and piecemeal fashion within psychology. This kind of diffuse strategy has failed to capture the jointness of perception and action within and between people. In contradistinction, the authors offer a perspective that retains both integrally social features (e.g., involves interaction) and yet adequately exploits the current state of knowledge regarding the ecological properties of perception-action, while at the same time drawing on aspects of dynamic systems theory. In this article the authors review the best attempts to examine how one individual affects another's perceptions and actions in the emergence of a social unit of action. Two important approaches, the individual-level and cognitive dynamics approaches, have yielded insights that derive in significant degree from principles of ecological psychology and/or dynamical systems theory. Prototypic of the individual-level approach is a focus on what can be perceived by coactors with the aim of uncovering how the dispositional qualities (affordances) of another person are informationally specified during social interaction. In contrast, the cognitive dynamics approach simulates dynamical characteristics of cognition and psychological influence with the aim of uncovering how cooperative interaction emerges out of its component parts. The authors argue that these approaches involve, respectively, insufficient mutuality and insufficient embodiment. Consequently, a social synergy perspective is discussed that approaches the problem of socially cooperative interaction at the relational, nonreductive level, using novel methods to examine how social perception and action emerge through self-organizing processes.

  • Marti, Stefan Johannes Walter (2006): Autonomous interactive intermediaries. Social intelligence for mobile communication agents. ProQuest Information & Learning, US.

    Abstract: Today's cellphones are passive communication portals. They are neither aware of our conversational settings, nor of the relationship between caller and callee, and often interrupt us at inappropriate times. This thesis is about adding elements of human style social intelligence to our mobile communication devices in order to make them more socially acceptable to both user and local others. I suggest the concept of an Autonomous Interactive Intermediary that assumes the role of an actively mediating party between caller, callee, and co-located people. In order to behave in a socially appropriate way, the Intermediary interrupts with non-verbal cues and attempts to harvest 'residual social intelligence' from the calling party, the called person, the people close by, and its current location. For example, the Intermediary obtains the user's conversational status from a decentralized network of autonomous body-worn sensor nodes. These nodes detect conversational groupings in real time, and provide the Intermediary with the user's conversation size and talk-to-listen ratio. The Intermediary can 'poll' all participants of a face-to-face conversation about the appropriateness of a possible interruption by slightly vibrating their wirelessly actuated finger rings. Although the alerted people do not know if it is their own cellphone that is about to interrupt, each of them can veto the interruption anonymously by touching his/her ring. If no one vetoes, the Intermediary may interrupt. A user study showed significantly more vetoes during a collaborative group-focused setting than during a less group oriented setting. The Intermediary is implemented as a both a conversational agent and an animatronic device. The animatronics is a small wireless robotic stuffed animal in the form of a squirrel, bunny, or parrot. The purpose of the embodiment is to employ intuitive non-verbal cues such as gaze and gestures to attract attention, instead of ringing or vibration. Evidence suggests that such subtle yet public alerting by animatronics evokes significantly different reactions than ordinary telephones and are seen as less invasive by others present when we receive phone calls. The Intermediary is also a dual conversational agent that can whisper and listen to the user, and converse with a caller, mediating between them in real time. The Intermediary modifies its conversational script depending on caller identity, caller and user choices, and the conversational status of the user. It interrupts and communicates with the user when it is socially appropriate, and may break down a synchronous phone call into chunks of voice instant messages. (Copies available exclusively from MIT Libraries, Rm. 14-0551, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. Ph. 617-253-5668; Fax 617-253-1690.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

  • McGlone, Matthew S.; Beck, Gary; Pfiester, Abigail (2006): Contamination and Camouflage in Euphemisms. In: Communication Monographs 73 (3), S. 261-282. DOI: 10.1080/03637750600794296

    Abstract: Communicators may representationally displace an unpleasant topic by avoiding direct reference to it (e. g., she died) in favor of a euphemism (she's no longer with us). How does a euphemism's displacement capacity change over its career in the vernacular? Linguists have assumed that this capacity deteriorates as euphemisms become conventional and thus "contaminated'' by their association with negative referents. In contrast, communicative pragmatics theory suggests that conventionality may confer camouflage-like properties to euphemisms, enabling addressees to process them in a mindless fashion. We report two studies investigating these divergent theoretical accounts. Study 1 explored the relationship between perceptions of euphemisms' familiarity and politeness. Study 2 examined the attributional consequences of conventional and unconventional euphemistic encodings of an ostensibly taboo topic. Our results contradict the associative contamination hypothesis and comport with the camouflage hypothesis.

  • Medina, Eden (2006): Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation. Socialist Cybernetics in Allende's Chile. In: Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (03). DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X06001179

    Abstract: This article presents a history of 'Project Cybersyn', an early computer network developed in Chile during the socialist presidency of Salvador Allende (1970-1973) to regulate the growing social property area and manage the transition of Chile's economy from capitalism to socialism. Under the guidance of British cybernetician Stafford Beer, often lauded as the 'father of management cybernetics', an interdisciplinary Chilean team designed cybernetic models of factories within the nationalised sector and created a network for the rapid transmission of economic data between the government and the factory floor. The article describes the construction of this unorthodox system, examines how its structure reflected the socialist ideology of the Allende government, and documents the contributions of this technology to the Allende administration.

    Keywords: Design
  • Miller, C.; Wu, P.; Funk, H.; Wilson, P.; Johnson, W. L. (2006) : A Computational Approach to Etiquette and Politeness: Initial Test Cases: Proceedings of 2006 BRIMS Conference, Baltimore, MD

    Abstract: Characters or agents which react appropriately—-taking offense when reasonable, giving deference where appropriate, etc.-- are a fundamental need for believability and accuracy in simulations of social interactions (including culture-specific and multi-cultural interactions). This is especially true for applications where complex and realistic interactions with intelligent agents are important-- such as cross-cultural training for military personnel. We have developed a quantitative, computational implementation of a rich, universal theory of human-human “politeness” behaviors and the culture-specific interpretive frameworks for them (labeled “etiquette”) from sociology, linguistics and anthropology. This model links observable and inferred aspects of power and familiarity relationships, the degree of imposition of an act (each of which have implications for roles and intents) and the actor’s character to produce expectations about politeness behaviors. By using observations of politeness behaviors (or their lack), the same model permits inferences and updates about those attributes. We present the algorithm we have developed and describe its results in scoring the degree of politeness or rudeness across 8 test cases. We see applicability of this model to interactive agent behavior generation and adaptation through the creation of modular, cross-cultural etiquette libraries. While other methods of interactive behavior generation are available (e.g., behavior scripting) our modular, computational approach should provide substantial payoffs in terms of reducing software development costs and/orincreasing the breadth of an agent’s social interaction behaviors.

  • Milton, C. L. (2006): Breaking the rules of the game. Ethical implications for nursing practice and education. In: Nursing Science Quarterly 19 (3), S. 207-210

    Abstract: Rules in games are fundamental to the ethics of practice. Rules provide a context or space where a game is defined and played. Throughout human life, games may be formalized with written and unwritten rules. Imaginations may be sparked in the creative structuring of new, informal games. Formal and informal rules can serve to provide direction for what may be viewed as decorum and appropriate behavior with professional groups. In this column, the author illuminates possible ethical meanings for rule-making and breaking with implications for nursing practice and education from a nursing theoretical perspective.

  • Minsky, Marvin (2006): The emotion machine: commonsense thinking, artificial intelligence and the future of the human mind. paperback edition. New York; London; Toronto; Sydney: Simon & Schuster
  • Okuda, T. (2006) : A New Metrology of Usability Test for New Communication Media-Humanoid Robot System: 2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference: 2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference: Saratoga Springs, NY, USA: IEEE, S. 250-255

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2006.320357 

    Abstract: The author interprets humanoid robots as a new communication medium with social interaction. Social interaction is essential for humanoid robots, because such robots are getting more common in social and home environments, such as a pet robot in the living room, a service robot at the office, or a robot serving people at a party. Social skills of such robots require robust, complex perceptual abilities: for example, it identifies people in the room, pays attention to their voices and looks at them to identify visually, and associates voice and visual images. Intelligent behavior of social interaction should emerge from rich channels of input sensors: visual, auditory, tactile, and others. The capabilities of humanoid robots and new communication media motivate us to develop a new remote home appliance control system HRUN (humanoid robots and ubiquitous network system, detailed in Appendix). In addition, the HRUN as a "network robots" example system of convergence of ubiquitous networks and robots is interpreted. In this paper, we describe two topics. First, we describe the results of usability test about the HRUN to over 30 students. The result shows "students want to use the HRUN and expect humanoid robot as a new communication medium. " Second, we describe a limitation of conventional metrology of usability tests. For example, students misunderstand "humanoid robot simulates a human motion - stand straight", since they able to understand the robot's rough motion and think "it's not perfect, but they are getting there". Finally, the author describes the importance of a new metrology of usability tests for the new medium

  • Pacchierotti, E.; Christensen, H. I.; Jensfelt, P. (2006) : Design of an Office-Guide Robot for Social Interaction Studies: 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems: 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems: Beijing: IEEE, S. 4965-4970

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2006.282519 

    Abstract: In this paper, the design of an office-guide robot for social interaction studies is presented. We are interested in studying the impact of passage behaviours in casual encounters. While the system offers assistance in locating the appropriate office that a visitor wants to reach, it is expected to engage in a passing behaviour to allow free passage for other persons that it may encounter. Through use of such an approach it is possible to study the effect of social interaction in a situation that is much more natural than out-of-context user studies. The system has been tested in an early evaluation phase when it worked for almost 7 hours. A total of 64 interactions with people were registered and 13 passage behaviors were performed to conclude that this framework can be successfully used for the evaluation of passing behaviors in natural contexts of operation