Abstract The aim of intercultural translation is to communicate. Communication is acted via verbal as well as visual means. The interaction of verbal and visual means of communication makes a set of complex situations which demand special attention in translation. One context in which the interaction of visual and verbal elements gets vital importance is children’s picture books. Color is an in...

In this extended abstract, we introduce the ARMOR service, a general-purpose and scalable interface between robot architectures and OWL2 reasoners. ARMOR addresses synchronisation and communication issues among heterogeneous and distributed software components. As a guiding scenario, we consider a prototyping approach for the use of symbolic reasoning in human-robot interaction applications.

The use of a symbolic math system, muMATH-79, to solve polarized light problems is described. The problems are setup using Jones calculus, and muMATH running on a Z-80 microprocessor multiplies out the Jones matrices and simplifies the final algebraic expressions. Only a minimal amount of operator interaction with the microcomputer is required. Several examples are given.

by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/si.2010.33.4.603. The Virtuality of Virtual Worlds, or What We Can Learn from Playacting Horse Gi...

A simulation exercise in a first-year political science unit used a mix of synchronous and asynchronous communication, and combined online discussion with face-to-face meetings. The project developed out of an earlier simulation with no online component. This preliminary report compares the two versions and adopts a symbolic interaction approach to understand how the participants understood the...

Essential to meaningful interaction is grounding at the symbolic, conversational, and societal levels. We present ongoing work with Anki’s Cozmo toy robot as a research platform where we leverage the recent words-as-classifiers model of lexical semantics in interactive reference resolution tasks for

by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/si.2010.33.2.191. Parents’ Constructions of Teen Sexuality: Sex Panics, Contradictory Discourses,...

Abstract The aim of intercultural translation is to communicate. Communication is acted via verbal as well as visual means. The interaction of verbal and visual means of communication makes a set of complex situations which demand special attention in translation. One context in which the interaction of visual and verbal elements gets vital importance is children’s picture books. Color is an in...