— Communication skill is essential for social robots in various environments such as homes, offices, and hospitals, where the robots are expected to interact with humans. In thi...
Territoriality, the expression of ownership towards an object, can emerge when social actors occupy a shared social space. In the case of Wikipedia, the prevailing cultural norm i...
paper, we present an abstract formal model of decision-making in a social setting that covers all aspects of the process, from recognition of a potential for cooperation through t...
Pietro Panzarasa, Nicholas R. Jennings, Timothy J....
A continuing problem in business today is the design of human-computer systems that respect how work actually gets done. The overarching context of work consists of activities, wh...
William J. Clancey, Patricia Sachs, Maarten Sierhu...
—This paper introduces a novel contextual model for the recognition of people’s visual focus of attention (VFOA) in meetings from audio-visual perceptual cues. More specificall...