Gaze-following is a rudimentary behavior that forms the foundation of social communication, where aberrant social orienting is a defining feature of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD; Hoehl et al., 2009; Nummenmaa & Calder, 2009). Recent neuroimaging research has demonstrated increasing precision at identifying aberrant brain response patterns in individuals with ASD, but no studies have employed ...

Concepts embraced by the term coherence have been identified as central to fields such as quantum physics, physiology, and social science. There are different types of coherence, although the term always implies a harmonious relationship, correlations and connections between the various parts of a system. A specific measure derived from heart rate variability (HRV) provides a measure of physiol...

AIM To examine the predictive role of family sense of coherence, social support and stress during pregnancy and their changes from pregnancy to postpartum on family and marital functioning at 6 weeks postpartum. BACKGROUND Family sense of coherence plays a significant role in promoting positive family and marital functioning, which is crucial to the child's well-being. However, studies that e...

We propose a social coherence-based model and simulation framework to study the dynamics of multi-agent organizations. This model rests on the notion of social commitment to represent all the agents’ explicit inter-dependencies including roles and organizational structures. A local coherentist approach is used that, along with a sanction policy, ensures social control in the system and the emer...

INTRODUCTION Among the many ways of identifying coherence in discourse, a particularly useful one considers different social dimensions of coherence, as revealed through the unfolding of the exchange of messages, turns or other units of information. When we communicate, whether face-to-face, through message systems, databases or any other technical affordance, we engage in an inherently social ...

Formal analyses of social action for Distributed A.I. (DAI) have focussed, almost exclusively, on scenarios in which participating agents have a joint intention to act. While such scenarios are significant, there are many examples of artificial and natural social systems in which joint intention not only does not occur, but is not even a practical possibility. This paper proposes that a deep th...

Assessing an individual's ability to perform effectively, efficiently performing social skills, and social roles in order to enhance the feeling of security as a matter of empowering quality of life can lead to the necessary correlation between social health and a feeling of Security. The purpose of this study is to investigate the significant structural relationship of variables at the level o...

It is increasingly recognized that human, social, and political factors have a signi"cant impact on software systems design. To address this, ethnographic studies of work have been used to inform the systems design process, especially in cooperative work settings where systems support several users working together. Based on our experience of these studies, we have investigated the integration ...