Cognitive social zones for improving the pedestrian collision avoidance with mobile robots

Social behaviors are crucial to improve the acceptance of a robot in human-shared environments. One of themost important social cues is undoubtedly the social space. This human mechanism acts like a repulsive field to guaranteecomfortable interactions. Its modeling has been widely studied in social robotics, but its experimental inference has beenweakly mentioned. Thereby, this paper proposes a novel algorithm to infer the dimensions of an elliptical social zone froma points-cloud around the robot. The approach consists of identifying how the humans avoid a robot during navigationin shared scenarios, and later use this experience to represent humans obstacles like elliptical potential fields with thepreviously identified dimensions. Thus, the algorithm starts with a first-learning stage where the robot navigates withoutavoiding humans, i.e. the humans are in charge of avoiding the robots while developing their tasks. During this period,the robot generates a points-cloud with 2D laser measures from its own framework to define the human-presence zonesaround itself but prioritizing its closest surroundings. Later, the inferred social zone is incorporated to a null-space-based(NSB) control for a non-holonomic mobile robot, which consists of both trajectory tracking and pedestrian collisionavoidance. Finally, the performance of the learning algorithm and the motion control is verified through experimentation.

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REKONSTRUKSI DAN REAKTUALISASI LITERASI EKOLOGI SOSIAL ISLAM

JURNAL PENELITIAN ◽

10.28918/jupe.v13i2.716 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Heru Kurniawan

Keyword(s):

Natural Environment ◽

Social Ecology ◽

Social Space ◽

The State ◽

Ecological Literacy ◽

Human Interaction ◽

Basic Principles ◽

Ecological Awareness ◽

Social Ecological ◽

The Social

Literasi ekologi sosial Islam adalah interaksi manusia dengan lingkungan alam, teknologi, dan sosial yang didasarkan pada prinsip dasar Islam. Rekonstruksi literasi ekologi sosial Islam yang bisa direkonstruksi adalah prinsip dasar Islam yang menegaskan posisi manusia sebagai “pemimpin” yang diberi “amanah” untuk mengelola “bumi” atau “lingkungan alam dan sumber daya alam” sebaik-baiknya. Rekonstruksi literasi ekologis inilah yang kemudian akan diaktualisasikan pada masyarakat. Proses aktualisasi adalah kegiatan aktual dalam menanamkan kesadaran ekologi sosial Islam pada masyarakat yang mana dilakukan dalam ruang sosial keluarga, masyarakat, dan sekolah yang diorganisasi oleh negara melalui kebijakan dan peraturan per undang-undangan. Dengan proses rekonstruksi dan aktualisasi yang terstruktur ini, maka negara akan aktif membangun kesadaran ekologis sosial Islam dengan aktif dan terstruktur dengan baik guna mewujudkan basis kesadaran, ilmu pengetahuan, dan tata nilai ekologi sosial Islam pada masyarakat. Literacy on Islamic social ecology is the human interaction with the natural environment, technology, and social which is based on the basic principles of Islam. Reconstruction of literacy on Islamic social ecology that can be reconstructed is a basic tenet of Islam that affirms the human position as a "leader" by "mandate" to manage "Earth" or "natural environment and natural resources" as well as possible. Reconstruction of ecological literacy is then to be actualized in society. The process of actualization is actual activity in instilling awareness of the social ecology of Islam in the society which is done in the social space of families, communities, and schools organized by the state through policies and regulations. With the process of reconstruction and actualization, then the state will actively build social-ecological awareness of Islam in order to realize a base of awareness, knowledge, and values of Islamic social ecology in society.

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Does context matter? Effects of robot appearance and reliability on social attention differs based on lifelikeness of gaze task

10.31234/osf.io/aqk5s ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Abdulaziz Abubshait ◽

Patrick P. Weis ◽

Eva Wiese

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Processing ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Physical Appearance ◽

Mental States ◽

Social Attention ◽

Social Cues ◽

Social Signals ◽

Mind Perception ◽

The Social ◽

Behavioral Features

Social signals, such as changes in gaze direction, are essential cues to predict others’ mental states and behaviors (i.e., mentalizing). Studies show that humans can mentalize with non-human agents when they perceive a mind in them (i.e., mind perception). Robots that physically and/or behaviorally resemble humans likely trigger mind perception, which enhances the relevance of social cues and improves social-cognitive performance. The current ex-periments examine whether the effect of physical and behavioral influencers of mind perception on social-cognitive processing is modulated by the lifelikeness of a social interaction. Participants interacted with robots of varying degrees of physical (humanlike vs. robot-like) and behavioral (reliable vs. random) human-likeness while the lifelikeness of a social attention task was manipulated across five experiments. The first four experiments manipulated lifelikeness via the physical realism of the robot images (Study 1 and 2), the biological plausibility of the social signals (Study 3), and the plausibility of the social con-text (Study 4). They showed that humanlike behavior affected social attention whereas appearance affected mind perception ratings. However, when the lifelikeness of the interaction was increased by using videos of a human and a robot sending the social cues in a realistic environment (Study 5), social attention mechanisms were affected both by physical appearance and behavioral features, while mind perception ratings were mainly affected by physical appearance. This indicates that in order to understand the effect of physical and behavioral features on social cognition, paradigms should be used that adequately simulate the lifelikeness of social interactions.

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SOCIAL CONFLICT: ARCHETYPAL NATURE AND RESOLUTION MECHANISM

UKRAINIAN ASSEMBLY OF DOCTORS OF SCIENCES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ◽

10.31618/vadnd.v1i11.35 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (11) ◽

pp. 294-305

Author(s):

Ruslan Rafisovich Hasanov

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Social Space ◽

Interpersonal Relations ◽

Human Life ◽

Social Groups ◽

Optimal Solution ◽

Modern Society ◽

Constructive Development ◽

The Social ◽

Interdisciplinary Knowledge

On the basis of the archetypic analysis of development trends of a conflictological paradigm the author’s model of minimization of conflict potential in modern society is offered. Institutional construction is the basis for model that is harmonized with a factor of societal identity.It is noted that the problems of social conflicts, according to data from monitor- ing studies of the Ukrainian school of archetype, are increasingly shifted into the sphere of interpersonal relations. It is stimulated by the progression in society of so-called self-sufficient personalities, the “subjectification” of the social space, and at the same time narrowing down to the solution of entirely specific situations in which there is a collision of the interests of two or more parties.Instead, in order to find the optimal solution for resolving the conflict, it is necessary to have interdisciplinary knowledge, in particular understanding of the deep nature of such conflicts. Collision of points of view, thoughts, positions — a very frequent phenomenon of modern social life. In order to develop the correct line of behavior in various conflict situations, it is important to adequately under- stand the nature of the emergence of the modern conflict and the mechanisms for resolving them in substance. Knowledge of conflict nature enriches the culture of communication and makes human life and social groups not only more calm, but also creates conditions for constructive development. It is proved that in modern life one can not but agree with the statement that an individual carries first re- sponsibility for his own life and only then for the life of the social groups to which he belongs. And while making decisions within the framework of modern mecha- nisms (consensus), the properties of human psychology such as extroversion, emo- tionality, irrationality, intuition, externality, and executive ability will not at least contribute to such a task.That is why in the author’s research attracted attention to the archetypal na- ture of the conflict — the primitive images, ideas, feelings inherent in man as a bearer of the collective unconscious.

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SOCIAL CONFLICT: ARCHETYPAL NATURE AND RESOLUTION MECHANISM

UKRAINIAN ASSEMBLY OF DOCTORS OF SCIENCES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ◽

10.31618/vadnd.v1i12.70 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (12) ◽

pp. 294-305

Author(s):

Ruslan Rafisovich Hasanov

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Social Space ◽

Interpersonal Relations ◽

Human Life ◽

Social Groups ◽

Optimal Solution ◽

Modern Society ◽

Constructive Development ◽

The Social ◽

Interdisciplinary Knowledge

On the basis of the archetypic analysis of development trends of a conflictological paradigm the author’s model of minimization of conflict potential in modern society is offered. Institutional construction is the basis for model that is harmonized with a factor of societal identity. It is noted that the problems of social conflicts, according to data from monitoring studies of the Ukrainian school of archetype, are increasingly shifted into the sphere of interpersonal relations. It is stimulated by the progression in society of so-called self-sufficient personalities, the “subjectification” of the social space, and at the same time narrowing down to the solution of entirely specific situations in which there is a collision of the interests of two or more parties. Instead, in order to find the optimal solution for resolving the conflict, it is necessary to have interdisciplinary knowledge, in particular understanding of the deep nature of such conflicts. Collision of points of view, thoughts, positions — a very frequent phenomenon of modern social life. In order to develop the correct line of behavior in various conflict situations, it is important to adequately understand the nature of the emergence of the modern conflict and the mechanisms for resolving them in substance. Knowledge of conflict nature enriches the culture of communication and makes human life and social groups not only more calm, but also creates conditions for constructive development. It is proved that in modern life one can not but agree with the statement that an individual carries first responsibility for his own life and only then for the life of the social groups to which he belongs. And while making decisions within the framework of modern mechanisms (consensus), the properties of human psychology such as extroversion, emotionality, irrationality, intuition, externality, and executive ability will not at least contribute to such a task. That is why in the author’s research attracted attention to the archetypal nature of the conflict — the primitive images, ideas, feelings inherent in man as a bearer of the collective unconscious.

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The Social Specificity of Societal Nature Relations in a Flexible Capitalist Society

Environmental Values ◽

10.3197/096327120x15916910310581 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Dennis Eversberg

Keyword(s):

Social Relationships ◽

Social Relations ◽

Social Space ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Capitalist Society ◽

Ideal Types ◽

Mutual Dependency ◽

The Social ◽

People’S Perceptions

Based on analyses of a 2016 German survey, this article contributes to debates on ‘societal nature relations’ by investigating the systematic differences between socially specific types of social relations with nature in a flexible capitalist society. It presents a typology of ten different ‘syndromes’ of attitudes toward social and environmental issues, which are then grouped to distinguish between four ideal types of social relationships with nature: dominance, conscious mutual dependency, alienation and contradiction. These are located in Pierre Bourdieu’s (1984) social space to illustrate how social relationships with nature correspond to people’s positions within the totality of social relations. Understanding how people’s perceptions of and actions pertaining to nature are shaped by their positions in these intersecting relations of domination – both within social space and between society and nature – is an important precondition for developing transformative strategies that will be capable of gaining majority support in flexible capitalist societies.

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Spaces of Consumption in American Literary Realism

The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190642891.013.24 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 391-410

Author(s):

Gary Totten

Keyword(s):

Consumer Culture ◽

Social Space ◽

Natural World ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

Literary Realism ◽

Natural Environments ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship ◽

New Strategies

This chapter discusses how consumer culture affects the depiction and meaning of the natural world in the work of American realist writers. These writers illuminate the relationship between natural environments and the social expectations of consumer culture and reveal how such expectations transform natural space into what Henri Lefebvre terms “social space” implicated in the processes and power dynamics of production and consumption. The representation of nature as social space in realist works demonstrates the range of consequences such space holds for characters. Such space can both empower and oppress individuals, and rejecting or embracing it can deepen moral resolve, prompt a crisis of self, or result in one’s death. Characters’ attempts to escape social space and consumer culture also provide readers with new strategies for coping with their effects.

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Fluid Multilingual Practices among Youth in Cameroon and Mozambique

The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190930028.013.30 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Torun Reite ◽

Francis Badiang Oloko ◽

Manuel Armando Guissemo

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Production ◽

Urban Youth ◽

Social Space ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Theoretical Discussion ◽

The South ◽

African Cities ◽

Social Lives ◽

The Social

Inspired by recent epistemological and ontological debates aimed at unsettling and reshaping conceptions of language, this essay discusses how mainstream sociolinguistics offers notions meaningful for studying contexts of the South. Based on empirical studies of youth in two African cities, Yaoundé in Cameroon and Maputo in Mozambique, the essay engages with “fluid modernity” and “enregisterment” to unravel the role that fluid multilingual practices play in the social lives of urban youth. The empirically grounded theoretical discussion shows how recent epistemologies and ontologies offer inroads to more pluriversal knowledge production. The essay foregrounds: i) the role of language in the sociopolitical battles of control over resources, and ii) speakers’ reflexivity and metapragmatic awareness of register formations of fluid multilingual practices. Moreover, it shows how bundles of localized meanings construct belongings and counterhegemonic discourses, as well as demonstrating speakers’ differential valuations and perceptions of boundaries and transgressions across social space.

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Being-with: Access to Relation, Participation, and Togetherness in Contemporary Art

Nordic Journal of Art and Research ◽

10.7577/information.v6i1.2133 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Tony Valberg

Keyword(s):

Contemporary Art ◽

Social Space ◽

Small Town ◽

Art Practice ◽

Research Project ◽

Relational Practices ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social ◽

Specific Setting

Being-with is an artistically based research project aimed at applying and studying participatory and relational practices within the arts as well as addressing the esthetical and ethical questions that such practices generate. The participants in Being-with – researchers and artists as well as children, parents, grandparents, siblings and other residents in the small town of Høvåg in Norway – gathered weekly for half a year to experience how aesthetic production may interact with social space and vice versa. The article reflects on what consequences such interaction may have for the conception of art, and its arenas and agendas … when we consider art not only as a reflection of our lives, but also as an agent shaping our lives and changing the social surroundings we are part of. The article relates discourses of aesthetics penned by continental philosophers over the last 50 years to a specific setting in a Nordic contemporary art practice.

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