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Virtual Compass: Relative Positioning to Sense Mobile Social Interactions
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2010
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
We have implemented Virtual Compass on mobile phones and laptops, and we evaluate it using a sample application that senses social interactions between Facebook friends. ...
Virtual Compass is a peer-based relative positioning system that relies solely on the hardware and operating system support available on commodity mobile handhelds. ...
Mobile social applications are heavily driven by the relative positioning of people, and less by absolute location. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12654-3_1
fatcat:7pfyno4qmzdo3imro3xfglihxi
Virtual relationships: Anthropomorphism in the digital age
2021
Social & Personality Psychology Compass
Although social psychologists are well-positioned to study how we think, feel, and act towards social objects, work on this topic has been limited and narrow in focus. ...
We employ social psychological research and theory to review how, why, and when people come to anthropomorphize VAs. ...
Social presence refers to the capacity of a virtual entity to make the interaction feel like an interaction with a real, live human (Nowak & Biocca, 2003) . ...
doi:10.1111/spc3.12603
fatcat:zmpdfmlq3bbirht6pkbjhulm24
Personalized Compass
2016
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '16
Maps on mobile/wearable devices often make it difficult to determine the location of a point of interest (POI). ...
To address this issue, we present Personalized Compass, a self-contained compact graphical location indicator. ...
Interaction Techniques for Mobile Interfaces #chi4good, CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, USA ...
doi:10.1145/2858036.2858068
dblp:conf/chi/MiauF16
fatcat:bwwmadgafjhilcxalyx7wphivu
A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Impact of Virtual Service-Learning on College Students' Development of Compassion and Motivation for Service
2021
McNair Research Journal SJSU
The benefits of virtual-service learning to acquire compassion will focus on a desire to help and concern for others that may not be like oneself, combined with valuing social justice and the relationship ...
The purpose of this research is to explain the impact of virtual servicelearning (vSL) on college students' development of compassion and motivation for service. ...
Motivation Compassion is a feeling that can motivate social interactions based on reciprocity-social-emotional exchanges-to serve for a social issue to build community by experience, identity, and relationships ...
doi:10.31979/mrj.2021.1704
fatcat:pvf2ytfmvne57mimnsv3t52hzy
Compassion-Focused Technologies: Reflections and Future Directions
2021
Frontiers in Psychology
Cultivating compassion involves developing deep wisdom, insight, and understanding into the nature and causes of human suffering; and wisdom and commitment to take positive action to alleviate suffering ...
Compassion is a prosocial motivation that is critical to the development and survival of the human species. ...
Pro-social cues and contexts in virtual interaction are now being studied to see how they might enhance compassion. ...
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.603618
pmid:34054636
pmcid:PMC8155300
fatcat:6a6o5wq3wjaptlxt4iq3nxxi2a
Still getting it on online: Thirty years of queer male spaces brokered through digital technologies
2018
Geography Compass
Research across the social sciences testifies to an ongoing relationship between queerness and digital technology. ...
I then evaluate the huge popularity of mobile phone-based dating and hook-up apps such as Grindr and Tinder. ...
Triangulating spatial coordinates, mobile signal, and satellite position through GPS allows a mobile device to connect the user amongst a matrix of others similarly 'plugged in' to specific online networks ...
doi:10.1111/gec3.12407
fatcat:f54yrm5klbhgjhdxu6pmtdpony
Economic cycles as a source of social influence on individuals
2019
Social & Personality Psychology Compass
I review the development of different intellectual traditions examining social influence to explain the relative lack of attention to economic cycles and position emerging work on the topic relative to ...
A review of this work shows that the understanding of core phenomena of interest to social psychology (e.g., attributions, altruism, and racial tensions) can be meaningfully extended by studying the complex ...
Virtually the entire history of social science studying processes of social influence arising through economic interactions focused on how proximal micro-mechanisms specific to economic systems (such as ...
doi:10.1111/spc3.12452
fatcat:spkarwp44vclznq5q3q4ojw7mi
Impartiality, Compassion, and Modal Imagination
1991
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Therefore, although compassion is itself a substantive moral concept, nothing I say here carries any particular normative commitment to the relatively central or peripheral role I think compassion should ...
the significance of human interaction. ...
as mobile physical beings, and our intellectual and emotional responses to it and them. ...
doi:10.1086/293341
fatcat:32z6sqtl75b6vnuuspdhuil3ei
Theorizing social change
2022
Philosophy Compass
I then briefly outline some other fundamental problems common to all processes of social change. ...
In this article I argue that social change deserves to be recognized as an area of philosophical study in its own right. ...
But philosophers have virtually no such comparably systematic theories of social change, that is, theories telling us the right way to bring about a just society. ...
doi:10.1111/phc3.12815
fatcat:hj5pt3wpxvbu3ijhlajaw4zm5a
Fuzzy Boundaries: Hybridizing Location-based Services, Volunteered Geographic Information and Geovisualization Literature
2014
Geography Compass
present data via interactive visualizations. ...
Mobile applications are particularly exciting to geographers due to their ability to collect swathes of spatial data from citizens, to present information relevant to a user's current location, and to ...
He develops mobile augmented reality, augmented virtuality, VGI, mobile virtual and flexible mixed reality interfaces. ...
doi:10.1111/gec3.12138
fatcat:cu3dkznpsvberm5qezeu2ngcd4
Sociological perspectives on artificial intelligence: A typological reading
2021
Sociology Compass
Research informed by the "cultural AI" perspective views AI development as a social phenomenon and examines its interactions with the wider social, cultural, economic and political conditions in which ...
Interest in applying sociological tools to analysing the social nature, antecedents and consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) has been rekindled in recent years. ...
This includes the self and identity; the (de)globalisation of the global economy; social interaction; mobility; and politics and policy. ...
doi:10.1111/soc4.12851
fatcat:ovd3yixlbnfyfcnese3beati5u
Going All the Way: Politicizing, Polarizing, and Radicalizing Identity Offline and Online
2014
Sociology Compass
Some members of the group may take a radical activist route to promote or prevent social change. Their interactions with their opponents intensify, while their ideas and beliefs sharpen. ...
of political mobilization. ...
Group members try to enhance their social self-esteem by searching for positive group distinctiveness, because any threat to the position of the group implies a potential loss of positive comparisons ( ...
doi:10.1111/soc4.12157
fatcat:feqw6mnh3zhehdzhvsvqu2zkfm
The mediation of gay men's lives: A review on gay dating app studies
2018
Sociology Compass
These apps allow users to create profiles to present themselves and interact with each other to reach multiple goals, such as casual sex, dating, or networking. ...
A growing body of literature focuses on gay men's use of mobile dating applications or "dating apps." ...
There is a relatively clear research strand marked by self-presentation and interaction frameworks. ...
doi:10.1111/soc4.12560
fatcat:asb7hvcxlvha7cam55my7wvyi4
Compassion as an antidote to cruelty
2006
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
This is a distasteful task that will compel researchers to interact with torturers and abusers, and to acknowledge that their gratifications are rooted in a common human past. ...
amusement, and social control. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENT I am grateful to the very many friends and colleagues who have, since 1995, reviewed (and listened to) earlier versions of this article, and to the BBS referees and commentators (in particular ...
doi:10.1017/s0140525x06279056
fatcat:sc6tolblavajtpztacbgr2lqee
Web Mapping 2.0: The Neogeography of the GeoWeb
2008
Geography Compass
Case studies are used to demonstrate this Web Mapping 2.0 era, and differentiate it from the previous generation of Internet mapping. ...
A whole range of websites and communities from the commercial Google Maps to the grassroots OpenStreetMap, and applications such as Platial, also have emerged. ...
OSM uses Social Mobile Computing to an extent during the process of data collection, especially during mapping parties where participants coordinate the work using mobile GPS receivers and mobile phones ...
doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00167.x
fatcat:qyitqsnrnzhmvjvkcrnkzt2wva
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