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Alienation and Recognition: The Δ Phenomenology of the Human-Social Robot Interaction (HSRI)
No full textA crucial philosophical problem of social robots is how much they perform a kind of sociality in interacting with humans. Scholarship diverges between those who sustain that humans and social robots cannot by default have social interactions and those who argue for the possibility of an asymmetric sociality. Against this dichotomy, we argue in this paper for a holistic approach called “Δ phenomenology” of HSRI (Human–Social Robot Interaction). In the first part of the paper, we will analyse the semantics of an HSRI. This is what leads a human being (x) to assign or receive a meaning of sociality (z) by interacting with a social robot (y). Hence, we will question the ontological structure underlying HSRIs, suggesting that HSRIs may lead to a peculiar kind of user alienation. By combining all these variables, we will formulate some final recommendations for an ethics of social robots
SAT: a methodology to assess the social acceptance of innovative AI-based technologies
No full textPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to present the conceptual model of an innovative methodology (SAT) to assess the social acceptance of technology, especially focusing on artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology. Design/methodology/approach - After a review of the literature, this paper presents the main lines by which SAT stands out from current methods, namely, a four-bubble approach and a mix of qualitative and quantitative techniques that offer assessments that look at technology as a socio-technical system. Each bubble determines the social variability of a cluster of values: User-Experience Acceptance, Social Disruptiveness, Value Impact and Trust. Findings - The methodology is still in development, requiring further developments, specifications and validation. Accordingly, the findings of this paper refer to the realm of the research discussion, that is, highlighting the importance of preventively assessing and forecasting the acceptance of technology and building the best design strategies to boost sustainable and ethical technology adoption. Social implications - Once SAT method will be validated, it could constitute a useful tool, with societal implications, for helping users, markets and institutions to appraise and determine the co-implications of technology and socio-cultural contexts. Originality/value - New AI applications flood today's users and markets, often without a clear understanding of risks and impacts. In the European context, regulations (EU AI Act) and rules (EU Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy) try to fill this normative gap. The SAT method seeks to integrate the risk-based assessment of AI with an assessment of the perceptive-psychological and socio-behavioural aspects of its social acceptability
Social phobia spectrum and social phobic behaviours spectrum [Lo spettro della fobia sociale e lo spettro dei comportamenti fobico-sociali]
No full textIn lots of psychopathological conditions we observe an exasperated sensitivity to the judgement, that leads to the avoidance of social interactions, resembeling behaviours that join Social Phobia, Shyness, Avoidance Disorder and, sometimes, Performance Anxiety. Other psychopathological conditions stand social avoidances that form a sort of epiphenomenona spectrum is outlined in which we enclose, a part from the disorders we mentioned before, Major Depression Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Personality Narcissism Disorder, Schizoid Disorder. The common trait behaviour of the Social Avoidance comes from psychopathological frames deeply different. In other words, in this psychopathological disorders the shame and the fear of judgement influence social avoidance, but this type of shame is extremely different from the social phobic one
Psychopharmacological treatment and personality: Cognitive schemes changes during pharmacological treatments [Psicofarmaci e personalitá: Modificazioni degli schemi cognitivi in corso di trattamenti farmacologici]
No full textThe way to experience feelings, emotions, to express them, the particular kind of being, behaving, the meanings we attribute to ourselves, to others and to events, the importance given to situations and the way of facing them, are expressions that characterize ourselves and allow us to be distinct. In the tradition of cognitive psychology the subject isn't passive in receiving environmental imputes, but he has mental structures that direct him in the information choice and in the meaning attribution. To these structures has been given the name of cognitive scheme. The «psychological» nature of these cognitive patterns seems to exclude the possibility of a change by psychopharmacological treatment. The clinical experience suggests that psychotropic drugs are able to change these dimensions traditionally considered more «psychological», often subverting the usual behaviour patterns, and not only the symptomatology of the disorder. In literature only few studies concerning the connection between these mental structure and the psychopharmacological treatment exist
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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