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In this paper we explore how simple auditory/ verbal features of the spoken language, such as voice characteristics (pitch) and language cues (empathy/humor expression) influence the quality of interaction with a social robot receptionist. For our experiment two robot characters were created: Olivia, the more extrovert, exuberant, and humorous robot with a higher voice pitch and Cynthia, the mo...

Economic and social development is usually slow and stable. So has been the evolution of cooperative enterprises in general. Every now and then there exist, however, times of change; revolutionary phases in the evolutionary process. These are the times when history is broken and new history is made. I call these phases the ’times of strategic change’, which means in this presentation changes in...

A fundamental characteristic of a text is that its sentences are not unrelated but cohere. To understand a text, a reader must therefore cognitively establish specific relations between a new statement and the previously read text. The coherence between sentences can be established by different kinds of integration processes: anaphora resolution, memory processes that resonate for words with re...

The in vitro transcription reaction of bluetongue virus (BTV) is characterized by a core-mediated, temperature-dependent inhibition at high core concentrations and temperatures (Van Dijk & Huismans, 1980; Huismans, Van Dijk & Els, 1987a). It has been found that this inhibition is reversible and that an inactivated transcriptase reaction mixture can be reactivated by lowering the temperature of ...

In this paper, we present a recently developed and computer-based instrument for the detailed assessment of reading skills. The theory underlying its construction is van Dijk and Kintsch's (1983) strategy model of text comprehension. The target group of the instrument are adults with a presumably high level of reading ability, for instance university students. Therefore, we do not intend to ass...