TO MY OLD FRIENDS

To my family and friends

Listen to My Body: Does Making Friends Help Influence People?

We investigate the effect of relational dialogue on creating rapport and exerting social influence in human-robot conversation, by comparing interactions with and without a relational component, and with different agent types. Human participants interact with two agents – a Nao robot and a virtual human – in four dialogue scenarios: one involving building familiarity, and three involving sharin...

Theory and Patients as Friends to my Post-Election Shock

Old friends for breakfast.

We expect patterns of disease to change in parallel with economic development, but the existence of simultaneous increases in diverse chronic inflammatory disorders came as a surprise. Developed countries have more allergic disorders, more autoimmune disease (for example Type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis) [1] and more inflammatory bowel disease (IBD; ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease)...

Biology: my old girlfriend

Biology: my old girlfriend e animals are influenced by experience; we learn, sometimes. I was shacked up with biology for almost twenty years. That was some experience. We weren't really well suited, me and biology, so what brought us together? Partly it was that as a child I loved animals; I spent happy years roaming the hills and deserts and shores of southern California, chasing life, catchi...