The subjective experience of controlling events in the environment alters the perception of these events. For instance, the interval between one's own actions and their consequences is subjectively compressed-a phenomenon known as intentional binding. In two experiments, we studied intentional binding in a social setting in which actions of one agent prompted a second agent to perform another a...

One of the most important qualities related to the use of information systems is arguably the usability achieved in actual use-situations. Three central criteria for usability as reflected in contemporary definitions are the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which users can achieve specified goals. A problem with these criteria is that they are expressed in terms of achieving goal...

The social context in which an action is embedded provides important information for the interpretation of an action. Is this social context integrated during the visual recognition of an action? We used a behavioural visual adaptation paradigm to address this question and measured participants' perceptual bias of a test action after they were adapted to one of two adaptors (adaptation after-ef...

The relationship between actions and intentions has always been at the centre of an articulated debate within philosophy social sciences. On one hand, there is a growing trend to naturalize concept intention: this based on wide empirical evidence, above all in neuroscientific field, suggests that human action mainly depends cerebral biological mechanisms. other especially sociological strong tr...