Indexing the Normalized Worthiness of Social Agents

2018 ◽  
pp. 263-273
Author(s):  
Giulio D’Epifanio
Keyword(s):  
Social Agents

Behavioral Assessment of Social Interactions in Natural Settings

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Santoyo
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Behavioral Assessment ◽  
Behavioral Observation ◽  
Social Responsiveness ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Social Effectiveness ◽  
Natural Settings

The present paper deals with behavioral assessment of social interaction in natural settings. The design of observational systems that allow the identification of the direction, contents, quality and social agents involved in a social interchange is an aim of social interaction assessment and research. In the first part a description of a system of behavioral observation of social interaction is presented. This system permits the identification of the above mentioned aspects. Secondly a strategy for the behavioral assessment of social skills is described. This strategy is based on the consequences and effects of social interaction, and it is supported by three basic processes: social effectiveness, social responsiveness and reciprocity.

The 19 Unifying Questionnaire Constructs of Artificial Social Agents

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siska Fitrianie ◽  
Merijn Bruijnes ◽  
Deborah Richards ◽  
Andrea Bönsch ◽  
Willem-Paul Brinkman
Keyword(s):  
Social Agents

scholarly journals Balancing Technology, Pedagogy and the New Normal: Post-pandemic Challenges for Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysi Rapanta ◽  
Luca Botturi ◽  
Peter Goodyear ◽  
Lourdes Guàrdia ◽  
Marguerite Koole
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Expert Advice ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Science And Education

AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity for rethinking assumptions about education in general and higher education in particular. In the light of the general crisis the pandemic caused, especially when it comes to the so-called emergency remote teaching (ERT), educators from all grades and contexts experienced the necessity of rethinking their roles, the ways of supporting the students’ learning tasks and the image of students as self-organising learners, active citizens and autonomous social agents. In our first Postdigital Science and Education paper, we sought to distil and share some expert advice for campus-based university teachers to adapt to online teaching and learning. In this sequel paper, we ask ourselves: Now that campus-based university teachers have experienced the unplanned and forced version of Online Learning and Teaching (OLT), how can this experience help bridge the gap between online and in-person teaching in the following years? The four experts, also co-authors of this paper, interviewed aligning towards an emphasis on pedagogisation rather than digitalisation of higher education, with strategic decision-making being in the heart of post-pandemic practices. Our literature review of papers published in the last year and analysis of the expert answers reveal that the ‘forced’ experience of teaching with digital technologies as part of ERT can gradually give place to a harmonious integration of physical and digital tools and methods for the sake of more active, flexible and meaningful learning.

Designing Games for and with Children. Co-design Methodologies for playful activities using AR/VR and Social Agents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Edison Muñoz Cardona ◽  
Shruti Chandra ◽  
Adriana Rios Rincon ◽  
Luke Jai Wood ◽  
Kerstin Dautenhahn
Keyword(s):  
Social Agents ◽  
Design Methodologies

Stress Management Training using Biofeedback guided by Social Agents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Schneeberger ◽  
Naomi Sauerwein ◽  
Manuel S. Anglet ◽  
Patrick Gebhard
Keyword(s):  
Stress Management ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Stress Management Training

scholarly journals Can Social Agents Efficiently Perform in Automated Negotiation?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6022
Author(s):  
Victor Sanchez-Anguix ◽  
Okan Tunalı ◽  
Reyhan Aydoğan ◽  
Vicente Julian
Keyword(s):  
Utility Function ◽  
Nash Bargaining ◽  
Equilibrium Strategy ◽  
Automated Negotiation ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Social Agent ◽  
Opponent Modeling ◽  
Social Metrics ◽  
Tit For Tat ◽  
Final Agreement

In the last few years, we witnessed a growing body of literature about automated negotiation. Mainly, negotiating agents are either purely self-driven by maximizing their utility function or by assuming a cooperative stance by all parties involved in the negotiation. We argue that, while optimizing one’s utility function is essential, agents in a society should not ignore the opponent’s utility in the final agreement to improve the agent’s long-term perspectives in the system. This article aims to show whether it is possible to design a social agent (i.e., one that aims to optimize both sides’ utility functions) while performing efficiently in an agent society. Accordingly, we propose a social agent supported by a portfolio of strategies, a novel tit-for-tat concession mechanism, and a frequency-based opponent modeling mechanism capable of adapting its behavior according to the opponent’s behavior and the state of the negotiation. The results show that the proposed social agent not only maximizes social metrics such as the distance to the Nash bargaining point or the Kalai point but also is shown to be a pure and mixed equilibrium strategy in some realistic agent societies.

scholarly journals Corporate Strategy and Corporate Strategists: Power, Identity, and Knowledge within the Firm

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Schoenberger
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Corporate Strategies ◽  
The People ◽  
Ability To Act

In this paper it is argued that, to explain why whole groups of once-successful firms in a particular nation or region fail to react appropriately to new competitive conditions, we need to take a closer look at the people who devise and implement corporate strategies. That is to say, we need to analyze corporate strategists as social agents in a particular time and place, and try to understand what aspects of their social being might tend systematically to produce inappropriate corporate strategies. The argument centers on questions of power and identity and on how these shape knowledge and the ability to act. In this way an explanation of the origins and the power of the managerial commitments that shape strategic decisions is sought.

Gitanas without a tambourine: Notes on the historical representation and personal self-representation of the Spanish Romani woman

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-165
Author(s):  
Ester Alba Pagán ◽  
Aneta Vasileva Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Roma Women

The performative representation of the Spanish Roma woman reveals a historical journey that brings her closer to many symbolic elaborations of the feminine, giving her a special affinity with the imaginary concerning the colonized woman, particularly with the Orientalist vision. Developed initially by the travelling intellectuals in Spain who sought a fusion of the topics of sexualized exoticism, the myth was reworked by local artists and thinkers without undermining their power to silence and make invisible the reality of the most vulnerable and most represented members of the ethnic group, their women. Today, a growing awareness of the importance of collective action directs Roma women to initiatives such as the revision of their historical memory, at the intersection between the external gaze and self-perception. These searches lead to the pioneering creation of community museum institutions, which have arisen around feminine Roma associations and are a symptom of an emerging desire to be heard. Based on the terminological tools shared by women and memory studies, this article seeks the personal dimension of this invitation to listen. The authors analyse a series of interviews with Roma women that investigate the social agents of representation, self-representation and their conceptual and experiential foundations.

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