This paper will describe technical developments within the Kidstory project aimed at moving the technology used within schools to aid the acquisition of storytelling skills in young children away from the model of one or two children sitting in front of a monitor. We are aiming towards scenarios of larger groups interacting naturally with responsive objects that hide the manner in which they co...

Telling a lie takes longer than telling the truth but precisely why remains uncertain. We investigated two processes suggested to increase response times, namely the decision to lie and the construction of a lie response. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were directed or chose whether to lie or tell the truth. A colored square was presented and participants had to name either the true color...

Following a year of public engagement activities associated with the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Alison Woollard explains why scientists need to communicate with the public.

EFL Students commonly make errors in expressing English Telling Time. This current study revealed frequent error phenomena of beginner learners Indonesia: telling time English. the types made by students grade 7 related to time. In addition, it also factors that caused error. The approach this is descriptive qualitative. data research are phrases/clauses/sentences containing 'telling time' erro...

This paper discusses the conceptual background of a research project which aims at investigating how theories on autobiographical memory can be applied to a virtual environment, e.g. Brightown, and how such an approach could 1) create an interesting virtual environment which 2) meets the cognitive needs of its users and their way of representing, encoding and reconstructing memories in terms of...

Advances in video and time series analysis have greatly enhanced our ability to study the bodily synchronization that occurs in natural interactions. Past research has demonstrated that the behavioral synchronization involved in social interactions is similar to dynamical synchronization found generically in nature. The present study investigated how the bodily synchronization in a joke telling...