This research is the second study into the validation of the questionnaire instrument for evaluating human interaction with an artificial social agent. It involves crowd workers on an online crowdsourcing platform. They will be asked to use the questionnaire instrument to rate an interaction between an agent and a human user, which is displayed in a 30 second video clip. The result of this study will be analysed and used to examine the associations of...

Materials related to three workshops given to students in the Summer Scholars Program at the Robotics Institute at CMU.

This scoping review builds on a baseline paper from Cibangu & Hepworth (2016) that reviews the differences between phenomenology and phenomenography using corpus articles of 6 journals. However, the baseline paper does not distinguish between phenomenological and phenomenographic orientations and their appropriate fit into the discourses identified by researchers. There is a lack of critical appraisal of phenomenological and phenomenographic forms adopted in LIS, causing under-reporting of methodological incongruences between studies, resulting in fewer guidelines...

Psychology researchers have long attempted to identify educational practices that improve student learning. However, experimental research on these practices is often conducted in laboratory contexts or in a single course, threatening the external validity of the results. In this paper, we establish an experimental paradigm for evaluating the benefits of recommended practices across a variety of authentic educational contexts – a model we call ManyClasses. The core feature is that researchers examine the same research...

This scoping review builds on a baseline paper from Cibangu & Hepworth (2016) that reviews the differences between phenomenology and phenomenography using corpus articles of 6 journals. However, the baseline paper does not distinguish between phenomenological and phenomenographic orientations and their appropriate fit into the discourses identified by researchers. There is a lack of critical appraisal of phenomenological and phenomenographic forms adopted in LIS, causing under-reporting of methodological incongruences between studies, resulting in fewer guidelines...

The vast majority of alcohol use takes place in social settings (Fairbairn & Sayette, 2014; Skrzynski & Creswell, 2020), and much research has focused on identifying social factors important to understanding the development of alcohol use problems (e.g., Creswell, 2021; Fairbairn et al., 2013; 2015). One such socially relevant factor that has been implicated in the etiology of alcohol misuse and problems is trait extraversion. Many cross-sectional studies have linked higher trait extraversion to heavier...

This project examines the association between different levels of hierarchically organized personality traits and central serotonergic responsivity. Personality traits are assessed via multi-informant reports, and hierarchical structural equation models are estimated. Central serotonergic responsivity is measured by pharmacologic challenge (i.e., citalopram).

Testing the conditions under which people believe others will come to share their beliefs over time.

Covid-19 has affected everyone across the globe and forced many people to reconsider the way we operate. The movie industry in the United States has been out of operation since early march as Covid-19 was labeled as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The industry is looking for the best way to begin production again and has assembled a team of experts to assist with a safety guideline. The guideline, titled: The Safe Way...

The goals of this project are to assess whether student mental health and well-being differ during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years.

A study that involves experts to group existing constructs into a set of categories (based on Evaluation Instrument Model 4). This study aims to investigate whether or not we have covered all aspects that people (based on the previous research) aim to measure in evaluating human interaction with a social agent.

The aim of this project is to investigate determinants of answer quality. We will present participants will a series of q/a pairs taken from coronavirus FAQ pages and they will be asked to rate the answer on a variety of dimensions. Our primary aim is to investigate what semantic features of the answers determine those rating dimensions. For instance, one of our predictions is that answers which share a greater amount of semantic space with...

Openness and the fast growth of information technology have contributed to reducing many injustices in knowledge diffusion. However, due to the immaterial nature of information, benign threats are still present in practices, research, infrastructure, and policies in academia. That means, once you are dealing with scholarly communication, whether you are a librarian, a researcher, a funder, a policymaker, or a software designer, what you are doing has impact everywhere across the world. But if you...

Testing the conditions under which people believe others will come to share their beliefs over time.

As part of a wider study using fMRI, we examined the influence of craving, habit, self-regulation, valuation, and social-contextual factors on eating and body fat percentage. This is in preparation for another analysis we will register separately.

R scripts and data for 'Is Replication Possible without Fidelity?' manuscript