Proceedings of The Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops (MALLOW 2010)

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-627/allproceedings.pdfInternational audienceMALLOW-2010 is a third edition of a series initiated in 2007 in Durham, and pursued in 2009 in Turin. The objective, as initially stated, is to "provide a venue where: the cost of participation was minimum; participants were able to attend various workshops, so fostering collaboration and cross-fertilization; there was a friendly atmosphere and plenty of time for networking, by maximizing the time participants spent together"

Human Factors Certification of Advanced Aviation Technologies

Proceedings of the Human Factors Certification of Advanced Aviation Technologies Conference held at the Chateau de Bonas, near Toulouse, France, 19-23 July 1993

Responding to Change in a Northern Aboriginal Community (Fort Resolution, NWT, Canada): Linking Social and Ecological Perspectives

Human and environmental systems in the circumpolar north are particularly affected by the Earth’s changing climate, thus acting as a bellwether for other parts of the globe. Rural indigenous communities are most visibly impacted due to their close relationship with the land. These challenges are compounded by socio-economic transformations typical of peripheral communities within a larger, centrally governed system. This dissertation links a community-based study of environmental change in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, Canada to evolving adaptation science. The study was prompted by local concern about changing environmental conditions caused by climatic, hydrological and resource development drivers. Its collaborative research approach incorporated a combination of participatory methods (e.g. semi-structured interviews, a household questionnaire, focus groups, and experiential excursions on the land) during ten months spent in the field between 2004 and 2008. This methodology provides a basis for including traditional knowledge in a detailed assessment of environmental change, evaluating both individual and collective adaptive capacity, and analyzing contextualized information that may be used to forecast future conditions. The study draws on elders’ and harvesters’ knowledge to address the primary relationships among changing environmental conditions, impacts on human livelihoods, and past and current adaptation strategies. Residents, who have shown significant resilience through past adaptations, are dealing with multiple and cumulative pressures. Adaptive capacity is strongly influenced by social dynamics at the local scale, as shown through an analysis of trust, reciprocity and sharing, social values and collective action, group participation levels, and regional relationships. Our evolving understanding of the social-environmental context in Fort Resolution provides a basis for further progress in adaptation planning. Key areas of individual and collective vulnerability to potential climate- and resource development-driven changes are identified, and a range of adaptation options are examined. While residents feel more able to adapt to climate-driven changes, the types of response strategies they propose under different scenarios show significant overlap. Environmental change affects people through multiple pathways; as well, groups are differentially impacted depending on their social and economic circumstances. Dealing with rapid, non-linear change requires a collective response. Actors and institutions play important roles in building adaptive capacity and supporting adaptation within a context of transition and uncertainty. While endogenous determinants of adaptive capacity (knowledge and skills, access to resources and technology, institutional support, social networks and equity) are vital, important exogenous influences (government support programs, regional economic development, aboriginal-aboriginal and aboriginal-state relations, emerging self-governance arrangements) also influence outcomes. Each community is a complex system (within a nested hierarchy of systems) where different drivers act at multiple levels; however, to be effective, capacity-building and adaptation must be grounded in the local context. Study findings contribute to the growing literatures on both community vulnerability and environmental change impacts and adaptations in the north. They provide a better understanding of the nature of social dynamics and their influence on adaptive capacity at local levels, with particular relevance to rural aboriginal communities. The emergent themes emphasize resilience and adaptation, and have implications for environmental change research and policy-development. Primary contributions include theoretical advancements regarding social capital, traditional knowledge, and the relationship between local-scale social dynamics and adaptive capacity in rural aboriginal communities; methodological advancements relating to the mixed methods approach and application of qualitative scenarios; and practical outcomes including an improved understanding of the applicability of adaptation options, and the identification of challenges and opportunities for both multi-level governance and capacity-building for adaptation. This dissertation offers practical recommendations for actions at the local level and for policy at multiple levels in a number of areas, including environmental quality, visioning, adaptation planning, and governance. This study adds to our knowledge of community-based adaptation research and offers leads for developing more effective strategies to support rural, northern aboriginal communities as they face changing social-ecological conditions

Seventh Annual Workshop on Space Operations Applications and Research (SOAR 1993), volume 1

This document contains papers presented at the Space Operations, Applications and Research Symposium (SOAR) Symposium hosted by NASA/Johnson Space Center (JSC) on August 3-5, 1993, and held at JSC Gilruth Recreation Center. SOAR included NASA and USAF programmatic overview, plenary session, panel discussions, panel sessions, and exhibits. It invited technical papers in support of U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Department of Energy, NASA, and USAF programs in the following areas: robotics and telepresence, automation and intelligent systems, human factors, life support, and space maintenance and servicing. SOAR was concerned with Government-sponsored research and development relevant to aerospace operations. More than 100 technical papers, 17 exhibits, a plenary session, several panel discussions, and several keynote speeches were included in SOAR '93

Proceedings of the 11th international Conference on Cognitive Modeling : ICCM 2012

The International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) is the premier conference for research on computational models and computation-based theories of human behavior. ICCM is a forum for presenting, discussing, and evaluating the complete spectrum of cognitive modeling approaches, including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. ICCM includes basic and applied research, across a wide variety of domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to higher-level problem-solving and learning. Online-Version published by Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin (www.univerlag.tu-berlin.de

Videogames, persuasion & deceit

Tese de doutoramento, Informática (Engenharia Informática), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, 2014Videogames have grown to be one of the most important forms of entertainment. Designers and developers constantly strive to innovate and include mechanics which provide the best experiences to consumers. Games typically integrate a diversity of instruments and mechanisms (among these, persuasive technology) which attempt to offer players the best experience possible, leading them to a state of optimal experience. The relation between these instruments and their effects on player experience suffer from scarce documentation and empirical sustainment, resulting in a lack of insight regarding how players are affected by them. This thesis documents how we addressed these research opportunities, tied videogames, persuasive technology and players as well as driven existing knowledge about persuasion forward. This research’s goal concerns the gathering of empirical evidence showing that different types of persuasive instruments can be employed in videogames to steer players towards a state of optimal experience. Our analysis focuses exclusively on how these mechanisms impact on the player’s performance and emotional state. In addition to this goal, we explored alternative persuasion strategies which are often disregarded due to existing and preconceived negative coverage – deceit. This effort lead us to cover how deceitful persuasive interventions are designed, in what circumstances they are employed and the relation between them and the videogames domain. Treading throughout these research goals resulted in a set of theoretical and empirical contributions tying both persuasive technology and videogames. We present player experience data supporting the role of persuasive technology in attaining an optimal experience state, addressing both performance and physiological evidence. We also a model, created with the intent of supporting designers and developers in establishing deceitful persuasive interventions. This model is put into practice, allowing us to test and show that deceitful and real persuasive instruments can have equivalent effects on player experience.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT