SARA (Socially-Aware Robot Assistant) is an embodied intelligent personal assistant that analyses the user’s visual (head and face movement), vocal (acoustic features) and verbal (conversational strategies) behaviours to estimate its rapport level with the user, and uses its own appropriate visual, vocal and verbal behaviors to achieve task and social goals. The presented agent aids conference ...

background : based on the literature review that was conducted, no research study has been found in australia to provide a detailed understanding of why nurses differ in their perceptions about cancer patients’ quality of life (qol) when they  communicate with patients in oncology wards. methods : this descriptive exploratory qualitative study was completed in 2007 in two major public hospitals...

This study examines how people manage uncertain competitive social interactions. To achieve positive interaction outcomes, individuals may engage in a social perception process that leads them to believe they have obtained more information about others than these others gained about them. We investigate how asymmetric knowledge perceptions contribute to important aspects of negotiation, namely ...

This study examined the quality of interview instructions and rapport-building provided by prosecutors to 168 children aged 5-12 years testifying in child sexual abuse cases, preceding explicit questions about abuse allegations. Prosecutors failed to effectively administer key interview instructions, build rapport, or rely on open-ended narrative producing prompts during this early stage of que...

— The theme is the influence of the spin structure on the Dirac spectrum of a spin manifold. We survey examples and results related to this question. Résumé (Dépendance du spectre de l’opérateur de Dirac par rapport à la structure spinorielle) Sur une variété spinorielle, nous étudions la dépendance du spectre de l’opérateur de Dirac par rapport à la structure spinorielle. Nous donnons ensuite ...