the main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management in hamedan's jihad- agriculture applied-scientific higher education center (hjaas). denison's organizational culture model and the building blocks of knowledge management model were used for finding this relationship. a descriptive correlative methodology was used. the stat...

The purpose of the present research is to investigate whether virtual agents can help enhance participants’ performance, effort and motivation in mathematics. We hypothesize that a minimal amount behavioral realism induced by display of rapport is necessary for any social effects to occur in humancomputer interaction. Further, we examine whether social facilitation effects occur depending on th...

Contrary to the harsh ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques employed during CIA operations on the War on Terror, contemporary research demonstrates that rapport building is a more effective way of achieving positive outcomes in interviews with general offender populations. Comparatively less research has explored the role of rapport with recalcitrant suspects, particularly suspected terrorists. W...

While numerous research endeavors address the effects of pedagogical agents, the role of the agent's gender and its rapport behavior has been neglected. We hypothesize that a minimal amount of behavioral realism induced by display of rapport is necessary for any social effects to occur in human-computer interaction. Further, in line with results from STEM research on female role models, we assu...

Rapport is usually considered key to any interview situation: building the right kind of rapport can be the difference between success and failure in obtaining the required data. In feminist research, rapport is intended to be of a particular kind: created through mutual sharing, minimal power hierarchies, and a feeling of genuine trust between interviewer and interviewee (Oakley, 1981). There ...

ACI Rossignol is composed of teams from LIF (UMR 6166), LSV (UMR 8643), INRIA Futurs (Projet Comète and projet SECSI) and Verimag (UMR 9939). The research topic of the action is ccryptographic protocol verification. Two general meetings have been held and additional meetings between sites have been organized. Futhermore the action has organized a Spring School on formal aspects on Security (Sec...

Social norms are shared rules that govern and facilitate social interaction. Violating such social norms via teasing and insults may serve to upend power imbalances or, on the contrary reinforce solidarity and rapport in conversation, rapport which is highly situated and context-dependent. In this work, we investigate the task of automatically identifying the phenomena of social norm violation ...