Navigating Social Space

Navigating negative quantificational space*

This paper reports the findings from an interconnected set of experiments designed to assess children’s knowledge of the semantic interactions between negation and quantified NPs. Our main finding is that young children, unlike adults, systematically interpret these elements on the basis of their position in overt syntax. We argue that this observation can be derived from an interplay between f...

Navigating Information Space

The issue of how users can navigate their way through large information spaces is one that is crucial to the ever expanding and interlinking of computer systems. There are many ways of dealing with the issue of navigation one of which is to provide different dialogue styles to suit individual capabilities. The performance of users was compared on a menu style interface to a database system, whi...

Navigating Social Spaces

Behaviour of robots within a human-populated space can be disruptive, as robot motion does not necessarily conform to social norms. Typical movement models are oblivious to social expectations, and so easily violate personal space and other social rules, magnifying the unnatural behaviour of robot agents and causing discomfort to human occupants. This paper presents a navigation algorithm that ...

Navigating in Space Under Constraints

Various algorithms have been proposed for the determination of the optimum path(s) in line networks. Moving in space under constraints is a far more complex problem, where research has been relatively scarce. An example would be the determination of the shortest sea course between two harbors. This paper presents a graph-based approach to the problem of the optimum path(s) finding in space; and...

Navigating Social Life: on Social Cognition