Streetscapes have presented a long-standing interest in many fields. Recently, there has been a resurgence of attention on streetscape issues, catalyzed in large part by computing. Because of computing, there is more understanding, vistas, data, and analysis of and on streetscape phenomena than ever before. This diversity of lenses trained on streetscapes permits us to address long-standing que...

Virtual reality is providing new tools to explore and quantify human social cognition. Here we review some recent studies using virtual characters to study imitation behaviour, with a focus on VR methods. We created virtual characters which demonstrate pointing actions and find that typical adults spontaneously copy action height. In a second study, we are able to create virtual characters whic...

In WISE 4, Armstrong [1] presented a multidisciplinary view in computer forensics education. The view was primarily focusing solely on the education of computer forensics students, which was indeed along the lines of multidisciplinarity. However, this view does not involve integration between the different disciplines. In this paper, the scope of the approach is extended in order to allow a two...

Effects of visual cues and selfexplanation prompts: empirical evidence in a multimedia environment Lijia Lin, Robert K. Atkinson, Wilhelmina C. Savenye & Brian C. Nelson a Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (MOE & STCSM), Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China b School of Comput...

This selective review synthesizes and draws recommendations from the fields of affective computing, intelligent tutoring systems, and psychology to describe and discuss the emotions that learners report experiencing while interacting with agent-based learning environments (ABLEs). Theoretically driven explanations are provided that describe the relative effectiveness and ineffectiveness of diff...

it’s not long since the advent of pervasive computing by mark weiser and one of its main usages is in healthcare systems. as this technology has been introduced only recently in this field and because we are dealing with peoples’ lives and their data, providing a high level of privacy and security is of great importance. various studies have been performed in which a certain method has been use...

This paper describes an architecture for intelligent agents that incorporates an emotional control mechanism based on the threat evaluation system proposed in a model for anxiety disorders. Evolutionary computing techniques are proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of the emotional mechanism as well as to try to find out why some individuals are more prone to anxiety than others. This can be c...

We propose a computational model for the Component Process Model (CPM) of Scherer, the most recent and the most complete model of emotion in psychology. This one proposes to appraise a stimulus through a sequence of sixteen appraisal variables dealing with a large number of its characteristics. As CPM is very abstract and high level, it is not really used in affective computing and no formal mo...

Multi-agent-based computing serves as a foundation for a new breed of computer simulations that act as virtual laboratories for social scientists. Therefore, the realism of the simulations is an important issue in their development. However, developing a realistic system that remains efficient, scalable and user-friendly is difficult. Our software system builds on research in agent-based system...

1 Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom, 3 Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 4 School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 5 De...