Online authority communication during an epidemic: A Finnish example

A Robust Controller with Online Authority Transformation for Dual User Haptic Training System

In this study, a force reflection control structure is developed for the surgery training haptic system. In the surgery training haptic system, the surgical operation is cooperatively performed by a trainer and a trainee. The participation of each surgeon in the operation is established through their own haptic consoles. Although the operation is primarily performed by the trainee, the trainer ...

Knowledge in an Online Patient Support Community : Authority and Discovery

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressively debilitating neuro-degenerative condition that occurs in adulthood and targets the motor neurons. Social support is crucial to the well-being and quality of life of people with unpredictable and incurable diseases such as ALS. Members of the PatientsLikeMe (PLM) ALS online support community share social support but

Authority and Communication in Organizations

This paper studies delegation as an alternative to communication. We show that a principal prefers to delegate control to a better informed agent rather than to communicate with this agent as long as the incentive conflict is not too large relative to the principal’s uncertainty about the environment. We further identify cases in which the principal optimally delegates control to an “intermedia...

Prescribing Authority During Emergencies

Detecting Forum Authority Claims in Online Discussions

This paper explores the problem of detecting sentence-level forum authority claims in online discussions. Using a maximum entropy model, we explore a variety of strategies for extracting lexical features in a sparse training scenario, comparing knowledgeand datadriven methods (and combinations). The augmentation of lexical features with parse context is also investigated. We find that certain m...