Since the early development of interest in the interpersonal dimensions of academic communication in the 1980s, the analytic potentials of the concept of metadiscourse have motivated a large number of investigations. Although these analytic potentials have facilitated the study of diverse academic genres, there has always been a risk of detachment of textual analyses form the contextual origins...

Existing timeline generation systems for complex events consider only information from traditional media, ignoring the rich social context provided by user-generated content that reveals representative public interests or insightful opinions. We instead aim to generate socially-informed timelines that contain both news article summaries and selected user comments. We present an optimization fra...

Existing models of financial market prices typically assume that investors are informed with economic data and that wealth maximization motivates them. This paper considers the social dimensions of investing and the effect that this additional motivation has on the evolution of prices in a multi-agent model of an equity market. Agents in this model represent both economically informed investors...

in western countries we assist at the paradox that fertility is socially discouraged by a mindset that depicts fertility as a resource to exploit as late as possible. so, couples have high expectative about the advantages of delayed parenthood, but they are scarcely informed about its risks. scientific data suggests to anticipate the first pregnancy, but social pressures impose to wait, though ...

Hardware platforms for socially interactive robotics can be limited by cost or lack of functionality. This article presents the overall system—design, hardware, and software—for Quori, a novel, affordable, humanoid robot platform facilitating noncontact human–robot interaction (HRI) research. The design system is motivated feedback sampled from HRI research community. maintains balance affordab...

Given the prevalence and devastating consequences of childhood trauma, there has been a surge in initiatives to help schools become trauma-informed. However, despite growing adoption such initiatives, number concerns have expressed. These include lack attention paid issues power inequality including poverty, racism, community violence as well adults neglect, mistreat or abuse children. Contempo...

It is challenging to build socially-aware robots due to the inherent uncertainty in the dynamics of human behavior. To become socially-aware, robots need to be capable of recognizing activities in their environment to make informed actions in concert with copresent humans. In this paper, we present and validate an event-based method for robots to detect synchronous and asynchronous actions of h...

We consider a model of resource dependence where only the seller knows the resource reserve. The model captures phenomena such as trust in the relationship and “bribing” for continuation through generous supplies. It also explains supply shocks in equilibrium: privately informed sellers have incentives to reveal their types too late through a supply disruption after which their exploit the cons...