The article explores the possibilities of formalizing and explaining the mechanisms that support spatial and social perspective alignment sustained over the duration of a social interaction. The basic proposed principle is that in social contexts the mechanisms for sensorimotor transformations and multisensory integration (learn to) incorporate information relative to the other actor(s), simila...

social learning and knowledge generation are two key factors to achieve successful natural resources co-management. social learning can be beneficial by broadcasting and transmitting experiences and problem solving ideas in a group of people. social learning networks can transmit knowledge and experiences from one node to another in the network. social learning can produce a suitable learning a...

in this commentary, i argue that beyond a sophisticated supportive architecture to facilitate implementation of actions on the social determinants of health (sdoh) and health inequities, the health in all policies (hiap) project faces two main barriers: lack of awareness within policy networks on the social determinants of population health, and a tendency of health actors to neglect investing ...

New technologies and systems are greatly impacting people’s lives. However, innovation has the potential to bring benefits as well as threats. In this world of technical revolution we argue that in order to arrive at proper systems requirements, one should examine and understand the relationships among social actors. Rather than focusing of behavioral properties of the software, we should ask h...

Identifying the social actor has become one of tasks in Artificial Intelligence, whereby extracting keyword from Web snippets depend on the use of web is steadily gaining ground in this research. We develop therefore an approach based on overlap principle for utilizing a collection of features in web snippets, where use of keyword will eliminate the un-relevant web pages.

Presently, there are user interfaces that allow multimodal interactions. Many existing research and prototype systems introduced embodied agents, assuming that they allow a more natural conversation or dialogue between user and computer. Here we will first take a look at how in general people react to computers. We will look at some of the theories, in particular the CASA (“Computers Are Social...

Current state-of-the-art in big social data analytics is largely limited to graph theoretical approaches such as social network analysis (SNA) informed by the social philosophical approach of relational sociology. This paper proposes and illustrates an alternate holistic approach to big social data analytics, social set analysis (SSA), which is based on the sociology of associations, mathematic...

In a recent paper, Everett and Borgatti (1992bl generalized their earlier (1991) definition of regular (or role) coloring of graphs. They extended their previous results to demonstrate that colorings can be used to find regular partitionings in digraphs, networks and hypergraphs. The purpose of this note is to suggest an alternative to their hypergraph representation one that requires only fami...

In today’s networked society where everybody and everything becomes interconnected, it is very important to be able to identify key actors and key relationships in such a complex multi-layered eco-system. This paper focuses on the specific research challenge of identifying the most influential actors in a social network built through combining relationships among same actors in two different do...