Exploring Social Learning Through Wiki in addition to Face to Face Interaction

Modeling face-to-face social interaction networks

Social Gaze Behavior for Face to Face Human-Robot Interaction

This short paper discusses the importance of human-like gaze behaviors for humanoid robots with physical eyes. It gives a brief overview of the functions gaze fullfills in human-human interactions from a social evolutionary perspective. In the second part we describe how human-like gaze has been implemented in robot in the research field of social robotics in the last years. The last part of th...

Mobile Support for Face-to-Face Social Interaction

INTRODUCTION Mobile devices allow people to connect with the rest of the world from anywhere. People can now be reached regardless of where they are. If a child gets injured at a school, for example, their teacher can connect with a parent immediately, even if the parent is not at home or work. People can also access information from anywhere. Before ordering dinner at a new restaurant, a diner...

Social Skill Acquisition Model through Face-to-Face Interaction: Local Contingency for Open-Ended Development

Behavior associated with joint attention is among the most important human functionalities for communicating with others. Previous studies indicate that even a robot can learn these behavioral patterns as social skills through interaction with a modeled/real caregiver by contingency evaluation. However, existing mechanisms are too time-consuming, especially for implementation on a real-world in...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...