In this longitudinal study, the authors addressed intracultural variation on fathers’ interactions with their 3-month-old infants, their ideas about parental care, and the timing of their children’s self-recognition at the age of 18–20 months. Participants were 24 middle-class German fathers and their firstborn children. Two behavioral clusters emerged: a more proximal parenting style with exte...

There is a growing interest in the area of self-healing systems. Self-healing does however impose considerable demands on system infrastructures—especially in terms of openness and support for reconfigurability. This paper proposes that the selfawareness inherent in reflective technologies lends itself well to the construction of self-healing systems. In particular, the paper examines the suppo...

Attention-to-task is one of the most important Human cognitive abilities, allowing an individual to selectively focus on a speci c issue (among many possible sources) and e ectively carry out a task. Without this ability to focus, the individual would constantly switch between stimuli, hardly concluding any task. While attention can be in uenced by many internal and external factors, the purpos...

This paper presents a study conducted for the Shades of Grey EPSRC research project (EP/H02302X/1), which aims to develop a suite of interventions for identifying terrorist activities. The study investigated the body movements demonstrated by participants while waiting to be interviewed, in one of two conditions: preparing to lie or preparing to tell the truth. The effect of self-awareness was ...

In our modern world it has always been assumed . . . that in order to observe oneself all that is required is for a person to "look within." No one ever imagines that self-observation may be a highly disciplined skill which requires longer training than any other skill we know.... The ... bad reputation of "introspection" ... results from the particular notion that all by himself and without gu...

Do people prefer gestures that are similar to their own? There is evidence that in conversation, people will tend to adopt the postures, gestures and mannerisms of their interaction partners [1]. This mirroring, sometimes called the “chameleon effect”, is associated with affiliation, rapport and liking. It may be that a useful way to build rapport in human-agent/robot interaction is to have the...