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The Social And Behavioral Implications Of Location-Based Services, Katina Michael, M.G. Michael Nov 2011

The Social And Behavioral Implications Of Location-Based Services, Katina Michael, M.G. Michael

Associate Professor Katina Michael

The social and behavioral implications of location-based services (LBS) are only now beginning to come to light in advanced markets where the services have been adopted by just a little over half the market (Microsoft 2011). Depending on one’s definition of what constitutes location-based services, statistics on the level of adoption differ considerably. While it is helpful to provide as broad a list of applications as possible in what constitutes LBS (e.g. everything from in-vehicle navigation systems to downloading a map using a computer), it can also cloud the real picture forming behind this emerging technology. Emerging not in the …


Towards Triadic Interactions In Autism And Beyond: Transitional Objects, Joint Attention, And Social Robotics, John Z. Elias, Patricia Bockelman Morrow, Jonathan Streater, Shaun Gallagher, Stephen M. Fiore Jan 2011

Towards Triadic Interactions In Autism And Beyond: Transitional Objects, Joint Attention, And Social Robotics, John Z. Elias, Patricia Bockelman Morrow, Jonathan Streater, Shaun Gallagher, Stephen M. Fiore

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The concept of transitional objects from the British Object Relations school of psychoanalysis may offer insight into the affective aspects of the development of dyadic and triadic interactions. Furthermore the concept may be applied to the use of social robotics in autism research and therapy, with social robots in these settings perhaps functioning as transitional objects for autistic children. Possible applications in organizational contexts are suggested as well, along with considerations of future research relating transitional objects to the notions of primary and secondary intersubjectivity.