Communicational Positive Propaganda in Democracy

Positive Philosophy, Freedom and Democracy

Propaganda in Soviet Russia

Two years ago the writer found plenty of evidence. Red flags, censored newspapers, directed excursions, indoctrinated schools, motivated plays, didactic pictures, and continuous radio messages preach communism. Appeals to the need for security and class loyalty, dogmatic assertion of Marxian philosophy, the example of leaders, and calls to participation are used as incentives to action. The res...

Propaganda and credulity

Article history: Received 13 April 2016 Available online 28 December 2016 JEL classification: D83

Dialogue Modeling in Embodied Communicational Agents

We are developing an ECA (Embodied Communicational Agent) system in Hungarian language. The ECA has to be able to carry out general chat conversations and domain specific discussions as well. The structure of the dialogue graph and the attributes of the graph nodes have to support the success of the conversation: user utterance understanding and responding, as well as repairing the “non-underst...

Small movements as communicational cues in HRI

In this short paper full body movements as communicational actions (such as steps), which are intuitively used to incite someone’s reaction, will be examined. Those movements are referred to as prompts. An observational study was conducted to examine those prompts in a narrow spatial configuration in a “make each other room” scenario. The observed small communicational movements are presented i...