Players' Stories and Secrets in Animal Crossing

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (CHI PLAY) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Xin Tong ◽  
Diane Gromala ◽  
Carman Neustaedter ◽  
F. David Fracchia ◽  
Yisen Dai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Version ◽  
Empirical Analyses

Animal Crossing is an online multiplayer game that supports social communication and collaboration. Its recent version, New Horizons, is immensely popular having sold over 32 million copies worldwide, with many players attracted to the opportunities it provides to remotely socialize during the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand players' increased positive emotions and social interactions, we surveyed 119 of them betweenMay and December 2020 and conducted remote interviews with 25 respondents. We identified the social dynamics among players and with non-player characters (NPCs), and analyzed how positive social interactions were facilitated under player-generated narratives and game-determined narratives. Based on our empirical analyses, we have extended our understanding of how to create positive, safe, and friendly interactions: (1)the design of mood-improving game worlds with flexible game tasks, (2) implementation of game-determined activities with social implications, (3) provision of player rewards to reinforce their social interactions, and (4)creation of opportunities to integrate NPCs' game-determined narratives into player-generated narratives.

Shtetls, Taverns, and Baptisms

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellie R. Schainker
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Religious Toleration ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Conversion Narratives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intimate Knowledge

Chapter 3 explores the social dynamics of religious toleration and the confessional state from below by examining the spaces of Jewish conversion. The chapter presents a range of conversion narratives which locate interfaith encounters at the local tavern as the springboard for migrating to a different confessional community. It analyzes daily social interactions among Jewish and neighboring Polish, Lithuanian, Belorussian, and Ukrainian communities, and how these encounters nurtured intimate knowledge of other confessional lifestyles, facilitated interfaith relationships, and provided access to the personnel and institutions of other faiths. By taking a geographical approach, the chapter presents the western provincial towns and villages of imperial Russia as interreligious zones wherein conversion was predicated on interconfessional networks, sociability, and a personal familiarity with Christianity via its adherents. In exploring forms of encounter, the chapter highlights the role of the local godparent—often local elites or civil/military personnel—in facilitating confessional transfers.

scholarly journals Placing social types through prosodic variation: An investigation of spatial meanings in Mainland China

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Robert Xu
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Cluster Index ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Profiles

This study examines how prosodic features evoke the spacial aspects of interactional meanings of well-known social types in Mainland China. Prosodic features (duration, pitch, voice quality) of the scripted performances of 18 prominent social types in China were measured acoustically and grouped by cluster analysis. Commonalities among types within each group were identified through a detailed analysis of meta-linguistic commentary collected from the internet. This paper focuses on three meaningful clusters: powerful bureaucratic types, disembodied voices, and “in-your-face” types. Members of each cluster share prosodic combinations and social profiles. More importantly, character types within each cluster index a specific interactional locale. Appropriation of their associated features could reproduce the social dynamics that is typical in that locale. The results highlight the situated use of sociolinguistic variables, and show that the prosodic features pattern structurally in the performances while indexing the historical-spatial settings of social interactions. This paper also considers place as an interactional and relational product of meaning making by these prosodic features.

scholarly journals Using sensors to study the social dynamics of outdoor play.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Louise Gibson ◽  
Stephen Hailes ◽  
Behzad Heravi ◽  
David Skuse
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Outdoor Play ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Measurement Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peer Nomination

This paper reports an exploratory case-study introducing a new method to quantify children’s social interactions during unstructured outdoor play. Movements of 18 children were tracked using wearable sensors over 20 sessions of outdoor play at school. Sessions were divided between two play conditions: Baseline; the usual play environment and Intervention; in which a playground intervention was implemented. Sensor data were used to build a network representing the social interactions that took place each day. Questionnaire-based measures of social and communication skills were completed by teachers, and peer nomination was used as a child-based measure of social skills.Social connectedness measured during outdoor play correlated positively with peer preference measures but not with teacher reported social skills. Social connectedness averaged over the 10 days of each play condition was not sensitive to between-condition differences. Findings are discussed qualitatively with reflections on measurement issues, implementation and ethics.

scholarly journals I Am Worthy, I Want, and I Can: The Social Implications of Practicing Personal Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Trifan
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Intrinsic Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper addresses the consequences of practicing personal development upon the daily life and interactions of individuals. In this context, I will describe how practitioners are applying the principles and techniques of personal development in order to transform the way individuals are relating to themselves and to others. In parallel, I will analyse how the ideology of personal development is assumed, by negotiation, in connection with the neoliberal project. This article aims to bridge a gap in the literature by showing how practicing personal development can restructure everyday experiences, emphasizing the negotiation of the intrinsic values of personal development techniques and how it (re)configures relationships and social interactions.

Having Entrepreneurial Friends and Following Them? The Role of Friends’ Displayed Emotions in Students’ Career Choice Intentions

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (04) ◽  
pp. 445-470
Author(s):  
Fei Zhu ◽  
Shea Xuejiao Fan ◽  
Li Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Career Intentions ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Social ◽  
Choice Intentions ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Perceived Desirability

Emotions have a social effect in that individuals’ emotions, attitudes, decisions, and behavior are affected by their perceptions of others’ emotions through social interactions. We introduce the social influence of emotions perspective to the career intentions literature and demonstrate how entrepreneurial friends’ work-related emotions influence university students’ entrepreneurial career intentions. Using an experimental design ([Formula: see text]), we reveal that entrepreneurial friends’ displayed positive emotions directly encourage students’ entrepreneurial career intentions, whereas negative emotions discourage students’ intentions indirectly by reducing the perceived desirability of being an entrepreneur. Our research contributes to the literature on career intentions, entrepreneurial intention, and emotions in the entrepreneurship context.

scholarly journals Collective rhythm as an emergent property during human social coordination

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arodi Farrera ◽  
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Interpersonal Coordination ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Social Coordination ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociocultural Processes ◽  
The Individual

The literature on social interactions has shown that participants coordinate not only at the behavioral but also at the physiological and neural levels, and that this coordination gives a temporal structure to the individual and to the social dynamics. However, it has not been fully explored whether such temporal patterns emerge during interpersonal coordination beyond dyads, whether this phenomenon arises from complex cognitive mechanisms or from relatively simple rules of behavior, or the sociocultural processes that underlie this phenomenon. We review the evidence for the existence of group-level rhythmic patterns that result from social interactions and argue that, by imposing a temporal structure at the individual and interaction levels, interpersonal coordination in groups leads to temporal regularities that cannot be predicted from the individual periodicities: a collective rhythm. Moreover, we use this interpretation of the literature to discuss how taking into account the sociocultural niche in which individuals develop can help explain the seemingly divergent results that have been reported on the social influences and consequences of interpersonal coordination. We make recommendations on further research to test these arguments and their relationship to the feeling of belonging and assimilation experienced during group dynamics.

Social dynamics of captive western lowland gorillas living in all-male groups

Behaviour ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.E. Lukas ◽  
T.L. Maple ◽  
T.S. Stoinski ◽  
C.W. Kuhar
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Affiliative Behavior ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
The Social ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Western Lowland Gorillas ◽  
Lowland Gorillas

AbstractMale mammals show considerable variation in their association (e.g. single-male, multi-male, all-male groups) and relationship (e.g. affiliative versus intolerant) patterns. Although a number of primates have been observed to form all-male groups, studies of the social dynamics of these groups are limited. This study examined the social interactions of 25 male western lowland gorillas living in nine captive all-male groups. Over 1,300 hours of data were collected using group scan and all-occurrence sampling methodologies. Groups were cohesive, with males spending approximately one-third of their time within 5 meters of another individual. Although complete linear dominance hierarchies within a group were not observed, dominance relationships between individuals were evident for the majority (66%) of dyads. Social interactions varied as a function of age, with subadults engaging in more affiliative behavior and less non-contact aggression than either blackbacks or silverbacks. Visual/olfactory access to females increased non-contact aggression between males. Such results are similar to those found for all-male groups of mountain gorillas in the wild and demonstrate that all-male groups can be a cohesive social unit in this species. They also raise the questions of why all-male groups have rarely been observed in wild populations and how social, ecological and anthropogenic factors influence male sociality.

Applying Item Response Theory Modeling to Identify Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 1916-1932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiying Yuan ◽  
Christine Dollaghan
Keyword(s):  
Item Response Theory ◽  
Item Response ◽  
Sensitivity And Specificity ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
National Database ◽  
Communication Disorder ◽  
Social Communication Questionnaire ◽  
Autism Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pragmatic Communication

Purpose No diagnostic tools exist for identifying social (pragmatic) communication disorder (SPCD), a new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition category for individuals with social communication deficits but not the repetitive, restricted behaviors and interests (RRBIs) that would qualify them for a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We explored the value of items from a widely used screening measure of ASD for distinguishing SPCD from typical controls (TC; Aim 1) and from ASD (Aim 2). Method We applied item response theory (IRT) modeling to Social Communication Questionnaire–Lifetime ( Rutter, Bailey, & Lord, 2003 ) records available in the National Database for Autism Research. We defined records from putative SPCD ( n = 54), ASD ( n = 278), and TC ( n = 274) groups retrospectively, based on National Database for Autism Research classifications and Autism Diagnostic Interview–Revised responses. After assessing model assumptions, estimating model parameters, and measuring model fit, we identified items in the social communication and RRBI domains that were maximally informative in differentiating the groups. Results IRT modeling identified a set of seven social communication items that distinguished SPCD from TC with sensitivity and specificity > 80%. A set of five RRBI items was less successful in distinguishing SPCD from ASD (sensitivity and specificity < 70%). Conclusion The IRT modeling approach and the Social Communication Questionnaire–Lifetime item sets it identified may be useful in efforts to construct screening and diagnostic measures for SPCD.

Review of The Social Dynamics of Self-Esteem: Theory to Therapy.

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 1046-1046
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Social
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