To be perceived as believable partners in human-machine interactions, virtual agents have to express adequate social attitudes. The social attitude expressed by an agent should reflect the social situation of the interaction. The agent ought to take into account its role and its social relation toward its interactants when deciding how to react in the interaction. To build such an agent able to...

Social networks are essentially in a graph structure where persons act as nodes and the edges connecting denote social relations. The prediction of relations, therefore, relies on context graphs to model higher-order constraints among which has not been exploited sufficiently by previous works, however. In this paper, we formulate paradigm relations into triangular relational closed-loop struct...

This study investigated how stressful environmental conditions influence the relation between mothers' social support and parenting strategies, utilizing interview data from a sample of 262 poor, African American single mothers and their seventh- and eighth-grade children, as well as objective data about respondents' neighborhoods. In general, the results indicated that neighborhood conditions ...