There are numerous everyday health technologies (applications designed for people to use in their daily lives) that promote healthy eating habits. From educational games to monitoring applications, these systems often take a corrective approach in that they are designed to fix the problematic aspects of people's interactions with, and thoughts about, food. We propose a complementary approach, t...

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This study investigates to what extent more advanced joint attentional mechanisms, rather than only shared attention between two agents and an object, influence the results of language games played by these agents. We present computer simulations which show that adding constructs that mimic follow attention capabilities increases the performance of agents in these language games substantially. ...

This paper investigates how different modes of social interactions influence the bootstrapping and evolution of lexicons. This is done by comparing three language game models that differ in the type of social interactions they use. The simulations show that the language games, which use either joint attention or corrective feedback as a source of contextual input are better capable of bootstrap...

A configuration state approach is presented that simplifies the mutual collision analysis of objects with known shapes that move along known paths. Accurate and fast prediction of contact situations in games such as robot soccer enables improved anticipatory and corrective actions of the state estimation, control and planning processes. An overview is given how advantage is taken of the configu...

This paper explores whether the addition of costly, imperfect, and exploitable advisors to Berg’s investment game enhances or detracts from investor performance in both one-shot and multi-round interactions. We then leverage our findings to develop an automated investor agent that performs as well as or better than humans in these games. To gather this data, we extended Berg’s game and conducte...

The aim of this study was to identify predictors of a superior functional outcome after corrective osteotomy for paediatric malunited radius and both-bone forearm fractures. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data, searching databases up to 1 October 2016. Our primary outcome was the gain in pronosupination seen after corrective osteotomy. Individual pa...

game theory models decision makers' behaviors in strategic situations. since the structures of games are different, behavior and preferences of the players are different in various types of game. this paper reviews various situations of games. here, characteristics of some common games are discussed and compared. specifically, we focus on a group of games called symmetric games including p...