The ALIZ-E Project: Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Long-Term Social Interaction

ALIZ - E Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Long - Term Social Interaction

Towards Autonomous Child-Robot Interaction

The ALIZ-E project [1] aims at designing and developing long-term, adaptive social interaction between robots and child users (8-11 years old) in real-world settings, for which a conversational human-robot interaction system has been developed [2]. In this context we present the auditory and visual perception components that have been specifically build for the purpose of supporting verbal and ...

COVID-19 Intervention Scenarios for a Long-term Disease Management

Background The first outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was successfully restrained in many countries around the world by means of a severe lockdown. Now, we are entering the second phase of the pandemics in which the spread of the virus needs to be contained within the limits that national health systems can cope with. This second phase of the epidemics is expected to last until a...

Long-term Utilization of Interaction by Young EFL Learners: The Effects of Strategy Training

The bulk of research within the interactionist framework seems to be consensually pointing to the beneficial effects of interaction in SLA. However, few studies have investigated the role of training in providing and perceiving interactional feedback, especially among young learners. This study probed the effects of training prior to engagement in interaction in case of young learners acquiring...

Transition management as a model for managing processes of co-evolution towards sustainable development

In this paper we argue that sustainable development requires radical changes in functional systems and changes not only in government policy but also in current systems of governance (the orientation of society and patterns of interaction over collective issues). In our view, the existing policy frameworks with fragmented policy areas are not suited for dealing with social complexity and desire...