Recent research in mobile robot navigation make it feasible to utilize autonomous robots in service fields. But, such applications require more than just navigation. To operate in a peopled environment, robots should recognize and act according to human social behavior. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of one such social behavior: a robot that stands in line much as peopl...

From the early days of the information economy, personal data has been its most valuable asset. Despite data protection laws, a shadow market is trading personal information without accountability to consumers. As a result, consumers are becoming more and more irritated and lose trust. The lack of transparency, accountability and trust in PI markets fosters market concentration and impedes serv...

INTRODUCTION Patients with neglect often fail to be aware of stimuli located on their contralesional side--the side of space opposite their brain damage. Some patients show impairments in extrapersonal space; others within personal (body) space; and some in both. Although the neglect syndrome may be associated with a distorted perception of extrapersonal or personal space, recent investigations...

In order to obtain evidence of the effects of demographic parameters and measurement techniques on personal space, several different assessments were used to determine the impact of subject age, race, and sex on interpersonal distancing. Thirteen different variables representing stimulation, paper-and-pencil, and behavioral techniques indicated that as age increased, personal space requirements...

Human always tries to achieve a sense of vitality, and wants a liveliness environment; therefore, recognizing factors in the architecture that increases the quality of life is important. Based on the importance of this issue, this article aims to identify the life indicators and evaluating them in architecture. In this way, by relying on a method of grounded theory, the researcher conducted sem...

The author considered the causes of processes de-intellectualization society associated with influence man-made civilization, mass consumption society, and information society. Considering importance intellectualization individual, attention is paid to fact that term itself used functionally, as ability use intellect in certain situations, not inner core spiritual image individual. Such conside...