Humans live and work in groups where they face similar, and often shared, problems, ranging from finding resources to avoiding external threats. To solve a problem at hand, they have to make sense of it and develop an accurate idea of a solution. The wisdom of crowds means that the average of a variety of inaccurate ideas, arrived at independently, is often very accurate, whereas social influen...

As robots enter environments that they share with people, human-aware planning and interaction become key tasks to be addressed. For doing so, robots need to reason about the places and times when and where humans are engaged into which activity and plan their actions accordingly. In this paper, we first address this issue by learning a nonhomogenous spatial Poisson process whose rate function ...

In the world of social partnerships, one important research puzzle that still remains is concerned with how partners construct problems partnership intended to address. To explore this, we draw upon social-symbolic work literature defines it as purposeful carried out by individuals or groups influence objects (Lawrence & Phillips, 2019), and ask following: How does way in which members problem?...