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If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping

The concept of an individual swapping his or her body with that of another person has captured the imagination of writers and artists for decades. Although this topic has not been the subject of investigation in science, it exemplifies the fundamental question of why we have an ongoing experience of being located inside our bodies. Here we report a perceptual illusion of body-swapping that addr...

If I were you: double appraisal in affective agents

We report the implementation and evaluation of a Simulation Theory (ST) approach to the Theory of Mind in intelligent graphical agents driven by an affective agent architecture FAtiMA. The existing cognitive appraisal mechanism is adapted to produce a second appraisal cycle, a double appraisal, in order to evaluate the emotional impact of possible actions. The action with the greatest emotional...

"If I can do it I will do it, if I can't, I can't": a study of adaptive self-regulatory strategies following lower limb amputation.

PURPOSE To explore the goal-related strategies employed by people following lower limb amputation using a framework based on the dual-process model of adaptive self-regulation. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 individuals with a lower limb amputation. RESULTS Theoretical thematic analysis identified four broad assimilative/goal pursuit strategies; internal resource ...

Mining Social Deliberation in Online Communication - If You Were Me and I Were You

Social deliberative skills are collaborative life-skills. These skills are crucial for communicating in any collaborative processes where participants have heterogeneous opinions and perspectives driven by different assumptions, beliefs, and goals. In this paper, we describe models using lexical, discourse, and gender demographic features to identify whether or not participants demonstrate soci...