Thought Bubbles

Thought-bubbles help children with autism acquire an alternative to a theory of mind.

Children with autism have specific difficulties understanding complex mental states like thought, belief, and false belief and their effects on behaviour. Such children benefit from focused teaching, where beliefs are likened to photographs-in-the-head. Here two studies, one with seven participants and one with 10, tested a picturein-the-head strategy for dealing with thoughts and behaviour by ...

Improving Social Awareness Through Thought Bubbles and Flashbacks of Virtual Characters

We present two prototypes of a serious game which is a aimed at raising police officers’ awareness of social stance during street interventions by letting them interact with virtual characters. We discuss the design, implementation and evaluation of a method of feedback on the police officers’ game actions. This method uses thought bubbles to show the cognitive state of virtual characters, usin...

LOITER-TB: Thought Bubbles that Give Feedback on Virtual Agents' Experiences

We demonstrate loiter-tb, a prototype of a serious game meant to improve the social awareness of police students. Central to its design is the provision of feedback through thought bubbles of virtual characters with which players interact. Our initial experiments provide weak support for our hypothesis that this form of feedback leads to gains in police students’ understanding of social interac...

Bubbles In Tehran Stock Exchange

Machines and Thought: Machines and thought

Futurists agree that interposable symmetries are an interesting new topic in the field of theory, and information theorists concur. After years of extensive research into the transistor, we disconfirm the construction of IPv7, which embodies the extensive principles of evoting technology. Here we confirm not only that digital-to-analog converters and digital-toanalog converters are generally in...