aim: considering the fundamental role of parents' function and family dynamics including the importance role of family communication pattern on preventing early-onset substance use in children, the present study aimed to determine the correlation between family communication pattern and mothers' preventive behavioral intention regarding preventing early-onset substance use in children...

Language understanding (LU) and dialogue policy learning are two essential components in conversational systems. Human-human dialogues are not wellcontrolled and often random and unpredictable due to their own goals and speaking habits. This paper proposes a rolebased contextual model to consider different speaker roles independently based on the various speaking patterns in the multiturn dialo...

Infants receive constant pairing of acoustic and visual stimuli across various contexts during their daily lives. In face of changing environmental experiences, disparate behavioral performance of infants mainly is not task-driven but mechanismdriven. However, the factual manner of how information is processed to develop cross-situational word learning is yet unclear. In the present study, SOM ...

Both anecdotal and case-study evidence have long suggested that consumer behavior such as the buying or boycotting of products and services for political and ethical reasons can take on political significance. Despite recent claims that such behavior has become more widespread in recent years, political consumerism has not been studied systematically in survey research on political participatio...

A context-aware ubiquitous learning environment allows applications to acquire diverse learning behaviors of ulearners. These behaviors may usefully enhance learner characteristics analysis which can be utilized to distinguish group learners for further instruction strategy design. It needs a systematical method to analyze ulearner behaviors and utilize learner characteristics for group composi...

A central goal of cognitive science is to develop a general theory of transfer to explain how people use and apply their prior knowledge to solve new problems. Previous work has identified multiple mechanisms of transfer including (but not limited to) analogy, knowledge compilation, and constraint violation. The central hypothesis investigated in the current work is that the particular profile ...

Why have some animals evolved large brains despite substantial energetic and developmental costs? A classic answer is that a large brain facilitates the construction of behavioural responses to unusual, novel or complex socioecological challenges. This buffer effect should increase survival rates and favour a longer reproductive life, thereby compensating for the costs of delayed reproduction. ...

Assistive technologies represent a recent application area of a wide variety of Artificial Intelligence methods and tools to support people in their activities of daily living. But most approaches do only center in the direct interaction between the user and the assistive tool, without taking into consideration the important role that other actors (caregivers, relatives) may have in the user ac...

Mobile phone log data (e.g., phone call log) is not static as it is progressively added to day-by-day according to individual’s diverse behaviors with mobile phones. Since human behavior changes over time, the most recent pattern is more interesting and significant than older ones for predicting individual’s behavior. The goal of this poster paper is to identify the recent behavioral data lengt...

Behavior associated with joint attention is among the most important human functionalities for communicating with others. Previous studies indicate that even a robot can learn these behavioral patterns as social skills through interaction with a modeled/real caregiver by contingency evaluation. However, existing mechanisms are too time-consuming, especially for implementation on a real-world in...