Automation technology can increase safety on the road, but only when it is trusted. As shared goals lead to social trust, and people exhibit social responses towards intelligent machines, we hypothesized that shared driving goals would also lead to increased trustworthiness and acceptability of Adaptive Cruise Control Systems (ACCs). In an experiment, participants (N = 61) were presented with d...

Student motivation during adolescence has become an increasingly important issue for educators and researchers. Using a goal theory perspective, researchers have investigated a range of goals (including achievement goals, social goals and future goals) that influence students’ desire to achieve at school. The present study examines the range of goals pursued by adolescents (N=195) from two seco...

In this paper, we investigate whether the social roles of dialogue participants can be recognized through the social actions performed by the participant in their interactions with others in the group. Specifically we focus on determining if a participant is the leader of the group. We decompose the problem into identifying the social goals for participant discourse segments. These social goals...

Entities that are meaningfully described as artificial ‘agents’ may be used by humans for many different purposes. Some of these purposes can be grouped by the abstract goals they are designed to fulfil. Two such goals are: to construct systems that meet certain performance criteria in a reliable way, which I will call the ‘engineering’ perspective and to act as models of social agents so to in...