Most explanation schemes are reactive and informational: explanations are provided in response to specific user queries and focus on making the system’s reasoning more transparent. In mixed autonomy settings that involve teams of humans and autonomous agents, proactive explanation that anticipates and preempts potential surprises can be particularly valuable. By providing timely, succinct, and ...

abstract this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of collaborative form-focused activities on grammar learning of elementary efl learners. to this end, 58 adult male iranian efl learners at elementary level of proficiency in three classes of language institutes were chosen. they formed the three groups of the study. the grammar section of cambridge michigan placement test was used to...

The monograph “Proactive library in the information and educational environment of University” (2020) dissertation for degree Doctor Pedagogical Sciences “University as a proactive system: modern opportunities development prospects” (2022; rejected by Dissertation Council upon results defense) R.A. Baryshev use methodologically flawed basis theoretically are untenable. on so-called university s...

It has recently been shown that retrieval practice can reduce memories' susceptibility to interference, like retroactive and proactive interference. In this study, we therefore examined whether retrieval practice can also reduce list method directed forgetting, a form of intentional forgetting that presupposes interference. In each of two experiments, subjects successively studied two lists of ...

Proactive telephone counseling is an effective adjunct to minimal intervention for smoking cessation, but its effect has not been quantitatively synthesized thoroughly. The present meta-analysis reviewed 22 studies published between January 1990 and December 2003 and found that there was a heterogeneous, significant adjunct effect of proactive telephone counseling for smoking cessation. This me...

BACKGROUND There is clearly a need for research in the field of occupational health service (OHS) for applying new perspectives. Proactive collaboration is needed between the OHSs and the companies. The customers of the companies using the services should be able to safeguard themselves from the health problems caused by the work environment through proactive collaboration with the OHSs. OBJE...

This research examined the ability of an anthropomorphic interface assistant to help people learn and use an unfamiliar text-editing tool, with a specific focus on assessing proactive assistant behavior. Participants in the study were introduced to a text editing system that used keypress combinations for invoking the different editing operations. Participants then were directed to make a set o...

In the future, wireless access networks will diversify, and they are quite different in their characteristics. Especially we focus on hot-spotted network that indicates high-speed wireless radio link and very limited communication area due to its spotted cell. A mobile user cannot continuously communicate on hot-spotted network be-cause its cells are intermittently configured. In this paper, we...