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CANDT
2009
15 years 1 months ago
Supportive communication, sense of virtual community and health outcomes in online infertility groups
Women are turning to online health groups to deal with the stresses and complications of infertility. Online groups may provide a resource that is potentially absent in their face...
Jennifer L. Welbourne, Anita L. Blanchard, Marla D...
CANDT
2009
15 years 1 months ago
And the ringleaders were banned: an examination of protest in virtual worlds
Protest has made the jump between the offline and the online spaces and is frequently used in most virtual worlds available today. Despite the frequency of these protest actions i...
Bridget Marie Blodgett
HRI
2007
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Experiments with a robotic computer: body, affect and cognition interactions
We present RoCo, the first robotic computer designed with the ability to move its monitor in subtly expressive ways that respond to and encourage its user's own postural move...
Cynthia Breazeal, Andrew Wang, Rosalind W. Picard
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Monotonic concession protocols for multilateral negotiation
The most natural way of thinking about negotiation is probably a situation whereby each of the parties involved initially make a proposal that is particularly beneficial to themse...
Ulle Endriss
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Junta distributions and the average-case complexity of manipulating elections
Encouraging voters to truthfully reveal their preferences in an election has long been an important issue. Previous studies have shown that some voting protocols are hard to manip...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein