Search results for "Image"

The relationship between self-Image and social anxiety in adolescence

2014

Background Self-image is the subjective perception about one's own self, body, mental functioning, social attitudes, and adjustment in different aspects of life. Research has linked negative self-image with a number of problem behaviors and psychiatric symptoms in adolescence; however, studies of the relationship between self-image and anxiety disorders are still scarce. Method This study involved a community sample of 1305 high-school students (51.4% female) who ranged in age from 14 to 19 years old. They completed self-report measures of self-image and social anxiety disorder (SAD). Results A quarter of the students reported high levels of social anxiety. Statistical analyses showed signi…

Representing social intelligence: An agent-based modeling application

2017

Abstract Intelligent systems are composed of autonomous components that interact each others, with and through the environment, in order to give intelligent support for reaching specific objectives. In such kind of systems the environment is an active part of the system itself and provides input for runtime changing and adaptation. Modeling and representing systems like this is a hard task. In this paper we propose a biologically inspired approach that combined with the use of Agent-Based Modeling allows to create a means for analyzing emergent needs of the system at runtime and converting them into useful intelligent services to be provided. The experiment proposed for validating and illus…

Sociālo mediju lomas analīze "LEGO" zīmolēšanā

2021

Šī pētījuma mērķis ir izpētīt, kā sociālos medijus var izmantot zīmolu veidošanas vajadzībām, kas būtu bijis jāņem vērā, izmantojot sociālos medijus zīmola veidošanas nolūkos, un izpētīt sociālo mediju ietekmi uz uzņēmuma “Lego” zīmola atpazīstamību. Pētījuma teorētiskajā aspektā tiek aplūkotas un apskatītas tēmas, kas saistītas ar zīmolu, sociālo mediju un visbeidzot sociālo mediju zīmolu veidošanu. Autore izmantoja primāro pieeju un izveidoja tiešsaistes anketu, kurā autore apkopoja datu analīzi. Kvantitatīva klientu aptauja starp Artel uzņēmuma Taškentā mārketinga aģentiem sastāv no pētījuma empīriskās daļas. Atzinumi liecina, ka sociālo mediju kopējā zīmola nozīme un tā ietekme uz zīmol…

2019

Trust is a critical issue in human–robot interactions: as robotic systems gain complexity, it becomes crucial for them to be able to blend into our society by maximizing their acceptability and reliability. Various studies have examined how trust is attributed by people to robots, but fewer have investigated the opposite scenario, where a robot is the trustor and a human is the trustee. The ability for an agent to evaluate the trustworthiness of its sources of information is particularly useful in joint task situations where people and robots must collaborate to reach shared goals. We propose an artificial cognitive architecture based on the developmental robotics paradigm that can estimate…

Attention-Based Landmark Selection in Autonomous Robotics

2007

This paper describes a robotic architecture that uses visual attention mechanisms for autonomous navigation in unknown indoor environments. A foveation mechanism based on a bottom-up attention system allows the robot to autonomously select landmarks, defined as salient points in the camera images. Landmarks are memorized in a behavioral fashion by coupling sensing and acting to achieve a representation that is view and scale independent. Selected landmarks are stored in a topological map. During the navigation a top-down mechanism controls the attention system to achieve robot localization. Experiments and results show that our system is robust to noise and odometric errors, being at the sa…

Attention-based environment perception in autonomous robotics

2007

This paper describes a robotic architecture that uses visual attention mechanisms for autonomous navigation in unknown indoor environments. A foveation mechanism based on classical bottom-up gaze shifts allows the robot to autonomously select landmarks, defined as salient points in the camera images. Landmarks are memorized in a behavioral fashion, coupling sensing and acting to achieve a representation view and scale independent. Selected landmarks are stored in a topological map; during the navigation a top-down mechanism controls the attention system to achieve robot localization. Experiments and results show that our system is robust to noise and odometric errors, being at the same time…

UBFC-Phys: A Multimodal Database For Psychophysiological Studies of Social Stress

2021

As humans, we experience social stress in countless everyday-life situations. Giving a speech in front of an audience, passing a job interview, and similar experiences all lead us to go through stress states that impact both our psychological and physiological states. Therefore, studying the link between stress and physiological responses had become a critical societal issue, and recently, research in this field has grown in popularity. However, publicly available datasets have limitations. In this article, we propose a new dataset, UBFC-Phys, collected with and without contact from participants living social stress situations. A wristband was used to measure contact blood volume pulse (BVP…

Fortalezas y debilidades de la mediación escolar desde la perspectiva del alumnado de educación secundaria

2016

In this paper we present a study to know the valuation of school mediation as an educational strategy taking into account the views of students in five schools in secondary Valencia, where the formal mediation process has been active for at least two years. It also seeks to identify the strengths and weaknesses identified.To achieve the objectives it has collected information from 593 students through an ad hoc difference between issues that all students must answer questionnaire; questions addressed only the students who have gone to mediation service; and finally issues to respond only the students who have acted as mediators.Through descriptive exploratory study conducted, is highlighted…

Images of the future for a circular economy : The case of Finland

2022

A transition from a linear to a circular economy (CE) is one of the key solutions to the sustainability crisis. A CE requires new mental models and insights, especially of a desirable future towards which to move. A CE aims at making better use of resources and jointly considers economic, environmental and social sustainability aspects in the long run. The objective of this study is to develop alternative images of the future for CE in Finland in 2050. The study was performed using qualitative research methods and covers extensive data from 61 interviews with experts. We analysed the data using qualitative content analysis. Four alternative images of the future were generated: A circular su…

Primeros pasos de la neuroimagen en el proceso penal estadounidense

2020

espanolEn el presente estudio se efectua una revision de la aportacion de las pruebas de neuroimagen en el proceso penal estadounidense, cuya contribucion varia en gran medida en funcion de la etapa del proceso en la que sean alegadas: mientras los datos neurocognitivos no tienen practicamente relevancia en la fase de determinacion de la competencia o de culpabilidad, en la de sentencia se estan convirtiendo en una poderosa arma para la mitigacion, sobre todo en aquellos casos en los que se discute la pena capital. No obstante, como se concluira, seria en esta fase de culpabilidad, como fundamento de la defensa incompleta de capacidad disminuida cuando se discuten trastornos mentales, espec…