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This article proposes and tests a reproducible framework for a computational method to measure social media-based deliberative discourse by analyzing commentary surrounding the Canadian convoy protests of COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions. Employing a combination of analytic calculations, alongside tools such as Google Perspective and Ling...
The Physical and the Digital City is a unique collection of projects where researchers and designers show how the theories of technology underpinning the digital urban environment are applied in practical and spatial terms. The authors are experts in their respective fields, who pursue cutting edge solutions for city-making and consider the theoret...
Artificial Intelligence represents a suite of capabilities that every industry is currently having to reckon with: the creative industries are not exempt and may be one of the areas most affected by this sudden technological shift. As recently as 2020 the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre judged “[d]irect applications of AI in creative...
Background: This case study investigates how dominant narratives and hegemonic ideals shape technological discourses in explanatory journalism. It examines dominant media frames in articles on technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics in a multinational outlet for explanatory journalism.
Analysis: Before and during the first wave of th...
Citation: Hudson, S.; Nishat, F.; Stinson, J.; Litwin, S.; Zeller, F.; Wiles, B.; Foster, M.E.; Ali, S., on behalf of the Canada-UK AI Team. Perspectives of Healthcare Providers to Inform the Design of an AI-Enhanced Social Robot in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Children 2023, 10, 1511. https:// Abstract: Children commonly experience pain and...
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Socially assistive robots (SARs) are a promising tool to manage children’s pain and distress related to medical procedures, but current options lack autonomous adaptability. The aim of this study was to understand children’s and caregivers' perceptions surrounding the use of an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced SAR to pro...
Der Beitrag bietet einen Überblick zu sozialen Medien in der empirischen Forschung mit einem methodologischen und instrumentellen Fokus. Er diskutiert die unterschiedlichen Methoden, welche in der Kommunikationswissenschaft bereits angewandt werden, und gibt einen ausführlichen Überblick zu adaptierbaren Methoden aus der Marktforschung und benachba...
This article examines the challenges and opportunities that arise when engaging with research across disciplines, contributing to the growth of social robotics and artificially intelligent systems. Artificial intelligence has a significant role to play in human–machine communication; however, there are barriers to its adoption and considerations to...
This paper describes a new research project that aims to develop an autonomous and responsive social robot designed to help children cope with painful procedures in hospital emergency departments. While this is an application domain where psychological interventions have been previously demonstrated to be effective at reducing pain and distress usi...
The objective of this paper is to discuss and demonstrate in a case study the application of social media as a tool for acceptance, sociability and interaction in human–robot interaction (HRI). By adopting the concept of mediatization as discussed in media and communication studies, we aim to propose an extended usage of social media in the design...
In 2014, a chatty but immobile robot called hitchBOT set out to hitchhike across Canada. It similarly made its way across Germany and the Netherlands, and had begun a trip across the USA when it was destroyed by vandals. In this work, we analyze the emotions and sentiments associated with words in tweets posted before and after hitchBOT’s destructi...
Der Beitrag bietet einen Überblick zu sozialen Medien in der empirischen Forschung mit einem methodologischen und instrumentellen Fokus. Es werden die unterschiedlichen Methoden diskutiert, welche aus der Onlineforschung übernommen werden können sowie ein ausführlicher Überblick zu adaptierbaren Methoden aus der Marktforschung und benachbarten Disz...
Social media platforms have become the new centre of attention in business-to-consumer (B2C) communication. These interactions provide a rich source of information for businesses in terms of their customers’ preferences, backgrounds and behaviour. We introduce a multi-disciplinary theoretical and methodological framework based on studies in marketi...
Urban planning, and campus planning in particular, can benefit greatly from technology that fosters and leverages collaborative, participatory planning which includes all affected stakeholders. Interactive surfaces such as tabletops and walls, and spaces such as 3D environments are examples of such technologies. Our research aims to explore and ass...
In the early morning hours of 1 August 2015, as it waited for its next ride on a Philly park bench, unknown assailants destroyed hitchBOT. Arms torn from its body, legs broken, gutted of its electronics, it was left discarded in a park, minus its smiley-face LED head. Around the world headlines announced the death of a much-loved robot, children an...
Background: Participatory planning, a common urban design practice, is seen as efficient, effective, and affordable, but participants can sometimes become disillusioned as there may not be clear links between their input and what actually happens (McCall & Dunn, 2012). With the increasing relevance of social media mediated via digital technologies...
Der Beitrag bietet einen Überblick zu sozialen Medien in der empirischen Forschung mit einem methodologischen und instrumentellen Fokus. Es werden die unterschiedlichen Methoden diskutiert, welche aus der Onlineforschung übernommen werden können sowie ein ausführlicher Überblick zu adaptierbaren Methoden aus der Marktforschung und benachbarten Disz...
The revitalisation of audience studies is not only about new approaches and methods; it entails a crossing of disciplines and a bridging of long-established boundaries in the field. The aim of this volume is to capture the boundary-crossing processes that have begun to emerge across the discipline in the form of innovative, interdisciplinary interv...
This article describes the investigation of online communication patterns that occurred among four student project groups at a German university. The main goal of our study was to see if media usage was technology-driven or a technology driver. Respondents (n=15) were required to connect (1) tasks (e.g. organize a meeting), (2) channels (e.g. insta...
Taking up current research results relating social media usage to online news consumption, we describe a theoretical and methodological approach that puts the subjective, or personal, dimension of online news consumption at the center of our investigations. Our empirical study applied a mixed-method design that integrated Q methodology. The study p...
We propose an alternative evaluation metric to Word Error Rate (WER) for the decision audit task of meeting recordings, which exemplifies how to evaluate speech recognition within a legitimate application context. Using machine learning on an initial seed of human-subject experimental data, our alternative metric handily outperforms WER, which corr...
This paper introduces a first outline of a typology of distributed knowledge co-creation in virtual communities based on Porter‘s
typology of virtual communities. The typology is based on empirical results from the analyses of social media, and a discussion
of case study results from India proves the adaptability as well as usefulness of the typolo...
In research communities, the use of information and communication technology (ICT) is part of daily routines, especially in multi-institutional research projects. Appropriate media choice is an important dimension of effective communication and successful collaboration. The central aim of this paper is to study the perceived appropriateness of diff...
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