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Human-robot teams can incorporate advanced technology such as distributed mobile sensor networks, integrated communications, visualization technology, and other means to acquire and assess information. These factors can greatly affect mission effectiveness, safety, and survivability, by providing critical information and suggesting courses of action. However, information overload can result. Tactical...
This study was conducted to examine the effects of Problem Based Learning (PBL) on students' intrinsic motivation compared with that of a conventional approach, in a procedural-based and number-oriented subject. A quasi-experimental study was conducted for five weeks on 81 first-semester Diploma students, who were attending the subject of Fundamental Accounting (DPA1013). An experimental, pre-test...
The lack of strong reading comprehension skills affects a student's success in school. This paper aims to examine how fluent and non-fluent readers process text and images by utilizing eye movement methodology. Three types of diagnostic instruments were used to collect data (text-only, text and image and image-only). The experiments also involved personal observation, interviews and Q&A sessions...
The present workshop focuses on the topic of intention recognition in HRI. To be able to recognise intentions of other agents is a fundamental prerequisite to engage in, for instance, instrumental helping or mutual collaboration. It is a necessary aspect of natural interaction.
We claim that in scenarios involving a human operator with responsibility over systems being monitored by diagnoser, presenting said operator with a concise set of observations capturing the essence of a failure improves the operator's understanding of the diagnosis. We take this in the context of Discrete Event Systems and demonstrate how the idea can be applied to systems utilising event-based observations,...
Estimates of software development effort are frequently inaccurate and over-optimistic. In this paper we describe how changes in the granularity of the unit of estimation, e.g., work-days instead of work-hours, affects the effort estimates. We describe four psychological mechanisms, how they interact and discuss the expected total effect of higher granularity units on effort estimates. We argue that...
This document outlines a qualitative study with the aim of fostering the transfer of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) content while working through engineering design problems. Teaching for transfer offers a vehicle to foster the transfer of STEM content through the abstraction of knowledge in each individual discipline. Many theoretical approaches to explaining knowledge transfer...
Understanding student motivation is an essential aspect of effective course design. Since motivations are related to learning outcomes ranging from critical thinking to creativity to lifelong learning, helping students develop positive motivations toward learning is critical for the engagement and success of tomorrow's STEM graduates. In this workshop, we explore the specific roles that instructors...
ITU-T P.800 Absolute Category Rating (ACR) listening tests are an important tool for evaluating the audio quality of codecs for telephony. However, listener responses in these tests do not only depend on the audio quality of the items heard but also on the preceding items and the given ratings given to them. Here we investigate how strong these effects are in typical ACR listening tests and to what...
In order to investigate what type of experiences of robots influences negative attitudes toward them, an online survey (N = 1,200) was conducted in Japan, by using the Negative Attitudes toward Robots Scale (NARS). The results suggested that (1) there were almost no strong relationships between types of robot experiences and gender, and age, (2) the correlations between negative attitudes toward robots...
Decision makers are often required to make decisions with incomplete information. In order to design decision support systems (DSSs) to assist decision makers in these situations, it is essential to understand why and how decision makers select their strategies. This paper presents a simulation which examines the impact of incomplete information on the effort and accuracy of decision strategies. The...
It is usually considered that mankind creates mental shortcuts, called heuristics, in order to rapidly process information. Since they are bound to human cognition, these cognitive biases are involved in any human mental activity including the intelligence field. Intelligence aims to search for, interpret, select and display information. The RECOBIA project aims to Reduce Cognitive Biases in Intelligence...
The paper deals with the identification and interpretation of “unconscious” cognitive images, patterns and ideas according to some remarkable synchronistic phenomena in the acausal mostly unconscious “relationship” of Carl Gustav Jung and Wolfgang Ernst Pauli at the period of 1947–1956 on the basis of Pauli's “observation” related to Jung's past “experiences.”
The paper discusses the modelling and identification possibilities of acausal synchronistic cognitive networks concerned as a hypothetical ‘artifacts’ of collective unconscious processes. This part of the paper deals with the analysis and interpretation via ‘joint observations’ of Jung and Pauli.
In this paper we attempt to address the issue of supporting self-regulation by Personal Learning Environments (PLE), which provide the learner with a freedom to design and compose his or her learning environment according to personal preferences and context demands. Psychology and neuroscience offer a lot of highly relevant results that should be taken into account. We report on our experiments mainly...
Emotional requirements capture the game designer's vision for the player's emotional experience and are used to facilitate communication between pre-production and production teams. However, production-phase deficiencies in emotional requirements have been identified. In this work, we extend the definition of emotional requirements to include emotion prototypes and emotion markers and present improved...
Although the relations between affects and posture were the focus of several studies in Psychology, their consideration in multimodal corpora research remains scarce. In this paper we survey related studies and propose a framework for studying affective postures by integrating knowledge coming from multiple sources such as literature, video corpora, motion capture data, artistic design, and perception...
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