BACKGROUND It is increasingly recognised that traits associated with autism reflect a spectrum with no clear boundary between typical and atypical behaviour. Dimensional traits are needed to investigate the broader autism phenotype. METHODS AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Ninety-three individual measures reflecting components of social, communication and repetitive behaviours characterising autistic s...

This paper describes our doctoral research project about sociability evaluation methods for interactive television. First, the two main research questions are formulated, which address the core aspects of our research: creating guidelines to evaluate the sociability of interactive television and adapting the method of user testing to detect sociability issues in interactive television. Previous...

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...

This paper presents the results from a study on issues for sociability and usability for legitimate peripheral participation in online communities. Informal learning is considered to occur within the individual in a selforganized way and within the community as consensus knowledge building. A catalogue for usability and sociability evaluation criteria was developed, in order to identify the two...

AIM To describe the development of very preterm children free of cerebral palsy or severe sensory impairment in the domains of gross and fine motor functions, language and sociability at a corrected age of 2 years; to identify factors associated with performances in each domain. METHODS A total of 347 children born in 1997 before 33 weeks of gestation, part of the EPIPAGE population-based coh...

Although there’re studies that investigate the factors affecting the intention to purchase virtual items in virtual worlds, most of these studies focus on the technological factors that enhance user experience (e.g., social presence) while pay less attention to the social factors that facilitate user participation and involvement (e.g., user engagement). To fill this gap, taking MMORPGs as a ki...

Numerous studies on child development in Japan focus on how mothers influence emotional, cognitive and social development of their preschool children. In contrast, we know relatively little about how paternal involvement influences social development of not only preschool but also school-aged children. Similarly, although many U.S. researchers examined the determinants of paternal involvement, ...

Research has shown that warmth and competence are core dimensions on which perceivers judge others and that warmth has a primary role at various phases of impression formation. Three studies explored whether the two components of warmth (i.e., sociability and morality) have distinct roles in predicting the global impression of social groups. In Study 1 (N=105) and in Study 2 (N=112) participant...