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Visions have an important role in guiding and legitimizing technical research, as well as contributing to expectations of the general public towards technologies. In this paper we analyze technical robotics papers published between 1998 and 2019 to identify themes, trends and issues with the visions and values promoted by robotics research. In particular, we identify the themes of robotics visions and implicitly normative visions; and we quantify the relative presence of a variety of values and applications within technical papers. We conclude with a discussion of the language of robotics visions, marginalized visions and values, and possible paths forward for the robotics community to better align practice with societal interest. We also discuss implications and future work suggestions for Responsible Robotics and HRI research.

In the existing generation the creation of cutting-edge technological devices has captured the attention of worldwide populace. The dependency of humans on those technological devices and offerings supplied through. This has reached at such stage that, without those, they can’t suppose a step ahead with inside the route in their growth. The point of dependency is key to dependency of the tech-gadgets and offerings. Teenagers are the maximum number of populaces to be hooked on technology. The look at changed into designed to look at using tech-gadgets through teenagers i.e. the time spent with the devices, the functions at the back of use, and its influences on intellectual fitness and existence fashion. Using based questionnaire, unstructured interviews and statement through the researcher, number one records have been accumulated from a hundred and fifty respondents of Klang Valley. Findings of the look at confirmed that maximum of the teenager respondents spend a huge quantity in their time with their tech-devices and offerings supplied through them. The functions of use in maximum instances are delight pushed as opposed to necessity pushed. Again, it is famous that dependency to tech-gadgets has many bad influences at the components referring to intellectual fitness of the respondents and has end up a causal component with inside the alternate of existence fashion of younger participants. The effects are interpreted primarily based totally at the present day theories and implications for destiny are pointed out.

Despite their common use as a marketing tool, high-tech white papers have received little attention from researchers. Many believe the “soft-sell” approach to marketing in a white paper is critical but not well understood. The research in progress, which is described in this extended abstract, focuses on testing a text analysis tool's ability to predict the type of advertising appeals made in white papers.

Research has shown that Violence Against Women is a pervasive problem which has been increasing. Until a few years ago, it took place both in public and private spaces, but it has now broken into Digital Space, adopting more symbolic expressions. There has been some important related work from Data Science approaches. Mainly about cyberbullying, detection of language patterns through supervised algorithms, a few works on unsupervised learning, and some on violence against women. This article is part of a larger investigation related to the Violence Against Women in Digital Space phenomena in Mexico from Spanish-language interactions in microblogging social network, Twitter. We present the framework to address these phenomena from a Data Science perspective and go through some first stage results. The goal is to give Data Science perspectives and insights related to the understanding of Digital Violence Against Women, with the purpose of generating awareness about this problem by, modifying manners and implementing public policies that could counteract this social problem.

Significant increases have been observed in the number of scientific publications in recent years. Every year thousands of researchers participate in academic life. Researchers share their studies and results with other researchers. This sharing is very important for academic progress. One of the most important platforms where publications reach other researchers is journals. Journals periodically publish articles. Some journals also publish special issues. These issues can be about a current topic, event or important person. In our study, a method for creating a special issue from the articles that are not published in the regular issues is proposed. In some cases, too many articles are sent to journals and these articles accumulate because all of them cannot be published in regular issues. The aim of this study is to determine the ones on similar topics and to create a special issue. The similarity of the articles to each other, i.e. the probability of being on a common topic, is found by the Doc2Vec method which is one of the deep learning methods. A special issue is created by selecting a certain number of articles with high similarity. The title of the special issue is determined from the common topic of the articles. In this way, both the authors' waiting time for publication of their articles is reduced and a special issue is created from the available articles in popular topic. The articles in this issue, belong to a current topic published by many researchers, will get more attention and be highly cited from other researchers.

Based on the CNKI database, this paper makes a quantitative analysis of the published papers of the postgraduates of the Master of Education (in the field of Vocational and technical education). It mainly analyzes the research of the Master of Education (in the field of Vocational and technical education) from the following three aspects: the total number and per capita proportion of the published papers, the quality of the papers and the distribution of the subject words. Publication status of student papers and suggestions to improve the training effect of this kind of master of education data, to provide some training suggestions for colleges and universities

This paper presents an observational study of lexical propagation across online social networking platforms. By focusing on the highly followed @dog_rates Twitter account, we explore how a popular account's unique style of language propagates outside of the account's immediate follower community within Twitter. Initial results show a strong relationship between the prevalence of this account's language-specific features and the account's followership and popularity. Expanding this research across platforms, we demonstrate consistency in these results outside Twitter, as the @dog_rates vernacular shows a similarly strong relationship between use on Reddit and the account's followership over time.

Sentiment analysis is an essential and valuable area to analyze in text data mining. For counting of opinions, sentimentality and subjectiveness of text, sentiment analysis is better discipline. The success of social media such as audit, blogs, microblog and forum discussions are related to the heavily increasing the importance of sentiment analysis. Most of the users express their own opinions and thoughts on blogs, social media sites, E-commerce site etc. Therefore these contents are very important to take decisions for individuals, industry and research work. The review of paper hand over an extensive synopsis of the previous work in this area. This survey paper is divided as reported by their improvement in the many sentiment analysis approaches. Main focus of these review paper is to present absolute image of sentiment analysis approaches and their related areas in succinct minutiae. The special dedications of survey paper consist of skeptical distribution of a gigantic representation of latter articles and to focuses on recent inclination of studies in the sentiment analysis and associate's research field.

Evaluation of researchers is a big issue in institutional research. We propose a method for quantitatively evaluating the stage of young, middle and senior researchers focusing on the role of the last author in co-authored papers. We trace the two time series of the number of published papers and the ratio of the last authored papers among them of each researcher. We conducted experiments on 84 researchers of ICT related graduate school of a university in Japan, and on 50 researchers who published papers in 15 highly evaluated international conferences and 5 international journals. We analyzed 3360 articles in the first case and 13138 articles in the second case. We test three different approaches: cross tables, portfolios and bar graphs.

The idea of writing a sustainable research paper or developing a topic of research interest that can lead to a PhD/Doctorate degree or proposal is always an endless thinking of where, when, why, what and who. Therefore, becoming an experienced researcher and writer in any field or discipline takes a great deal of practice. This Keynote Lecture will highlights the possible solutions in response to the lack of competence demonstrated by young researchers and PhD / Doctorate students, and the understanding of what contributes to knowledge gap.

We conducted a field study in a non-profit resource-scarce primary care clinic to investigate its current paper-based practices. The goal is to inform the design and deployment of an impending Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system at the clinic. The clinic serves a local vulnerable, low-income population who are insured through local community health plans. We identified problems encountered by the providers in their use of the current paper-based system. We also found that providers customized their work practices so that they can serve the underserved population better. Based on the tacit knowledge that they acquired in the workplace over time, they adapted their patient care to align with the patients' prescribed health benefits. In this way, the patients were able to receive timely and proper medical care. We also propose technological recommendations for the impending EMR system to address the problems with current practices and to support the adapted practices specifically customized for the low socioeconomic patients.

If students do not “solve” problems in Community Service-Learning, what significance does their work have for the community? This is the question that the author asked the social entrepreneur partnered with a global engineering course. The course is a longdistance variant of Community Service-Learning in which students work on sociotechnical problems identified by rural artisans in the craft and textile sector in India. Students collaborate closely with the social entrepreneur who has developed long-standing, on-the-ground relationships with artisans in marginalized communities in India. The course emphasizes the need for collaboration, the nature of community, and the search for low-tech solutions that are socially appropriate, environmentally sustainable, and economically feasible. While Community-Service Learning discourse largely focuses on pedagogical methodology and its transformative effects on students, the voice of the community often goes unheard. Our social entrepreneur's response to the above question reveals surprising qualitative insights about the relational nature of technical documentation and how even partial student “work on paper” can unintentionally empower communities that historically have been considered “untouchable.”.

A conceptual framework is proposed to examine perceived structural constraints of elephant conservation centre and its' effects on participation in visiting activity. A brief discussion on elephant conservation effort is discussed in the earlier part of this paper. The paper then examines some attributes to perceive structural constraints with some effects are examined for participation and overall satisfaction. This paper does not only assist in identifying reasons for not engaging in visiting an animal conservation but also gaining some ideas to overcome the constraints.

The rhetorical aptitude of engineers appears to be meager in relation to the advice of rhetorical scholars. How different is it from the behavior of the scholars themselves? How do communication researchers present their papers? Do they follow the classical advice? This paper reports on an extensive case-study of professional communication researchers presenting their research papers. During an (inter)national conference the presentations of 16 speakers were filmed and their speech text was transcribed verbatim. The introductions of the speeches were analyzed on the basis of an exordium model grounded in classic and modern rhetoric. The research shows that the speaking behavior of the presenters is in line with the given advice, but that the choice for opening techniques is rather conventional. The observations also show that the persons chairing the sessions have a considerable impact on how the presenters begin. More educational concern is needed to prepare presenters for the frequent everyday problems.

This short paper argues that current conceptions in trust formation scholarship miss the context of zero trust, a practice growing in importance in cyber security. The contribution of this paper presents a novel approach to help conceptualize and operationalize zero trust and a call for a research agenda. Further work will expand this model and \udexplore the implications of zero trust in future digital systems.

This position paper discusses my interdisciplinary research which combines narratological theories and the characteristics of VR as a storytelling medium to develop a methodology for the adaptation of Caribbean literary narratives into VR. The selected narratives treat with contemporary issues such as migration, racial- discrimination and its perpetuation from history to present, and prejudice towards LGBTQIA individuals. These thematic areas enable their VR adaptations to contribute to social transformation by positioning users within story situations using character-based avatars or voyeuristic perspectives. The intended result is to create cognitive dissonance within the mind of the user and potentially alter negative attitudes and evoke empathetic responses. This research attempts to catalyze the use of VR as a storytelling medium for educational and social transformation purposes within the Caribbean region.

This article represents a Full Paper. Students are often the beneficiaries of staff-led and managed programs where they acquire and hone professional development skills outside the classroom. Given the ongoing transformation toward a "whole new engineer" [1], we decided to focus on university staff and their involvement in improving student outcomes. The three teams profiled in this article were part of a larger set of 12 grassroots teams at a large, public U.S. university. We examine these three successful teams, all staff-led, two with six members and one with eight members. We were interested in how team members conceptualized their individual roles and their professional networks in helping their teams accomplish their goals. The data, illustrated through their statements and drawings, enable us to capture and explain their insider perspectives on these collaborations, the strategies they employed to overcome issues, the value they placed on divergent team-member views, and the factors they believed to be essential for success.

This paper argues for a future research agenda that re-orients the design of internet-of-things applications, in particular within the Smart City context, with the aim to counter the prevailing technological opportunism that drives innovation in this field. I discuss why participation of stakeholders in the design of such technology is essential, but also needs to evolve to recognise its political dimension. Possible pathways for such a re-politicising of participation in design are discussed with concepts of Agonistic Design, Critical Design and Design in Use. Alongside these methodological concerns, I argue, it is necessary to also rethink our underlying theoretical understanding of the relationship between humans and technology. To reflect the intimate entanglement, I propose to look at post-humanist theories and new materialism. The goal of this position paper is to provoke discussion and critical reflection.

This full paper of innovative practice addresses how Computer Science programs in the United States continue to struggle with diversity, not only in their faculty and student body, but also with their curriculum. The lack of diversity in these programs affects the programs themselves, their students, but also society. This paper looks at alternative approaches to solving this problem by proposing a theoretical model that has Computer Science programs recruiting an Applied Sociologist that specializes in inequalities and engages local communities. The paper provides relevant discussion and examples of how an Applied Sociologist would affect diversity by being a liaison to the community and contributing to the curriculum. This unconventional concept is expressed through a case study that uses Seattle and the University of Washington to discuss the multifaceted layers of equalities brought on by history and current social practices.

This Research to Practice Full Paper (Part II) describes how students, working on paid projects, have benefited from a comprehensive engineering Academic Success and Professional Development (ASAP) mentoring-scholarship project-centric program at Arizona State University (ASU) – and the associated community of practice (consisting of learners and faculty-industry-peer mentors) – described within Part I. The program, while focusing on upper-division transfer students, serves upper-division non-transfers and some graduate students as well. Central to the program is that scholars must participate in career-steering/shaping projects in an area of national importance. In this paper, 14 scholars are considered. All 14 scholars were mentored by the main author (professor and director of the NSF-funded program). For each scholar, we describe the impact of key program activities/instruments/constructs/projects on the scholar and the group of 14 scholars considered. All were selected to pursue funded projects - 11 for Spring 2018, 8 renewed for Fall 2018, 3 for new Fall projects and 11 for summer 2018 projects. For each scholar, their projects and future plans are described. The group of 14 scholars is also compared to the larger cohort of 74 scholars described in Part I in terms of key program activities/outcomes.

This research category full paper explores National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awardees from the Division of Engineering Education and Centers. The NSF CAREER Award distinguishes researchers as promising future leaders who are advancing the frontier of engineering education research (EER). Additionally, the multidisciplinary rise of EER has resulted in a diverse community of researchers from many backgrounds and academic departments. Given the recognition associated with the CAREER award, it is crucial that all early career faculty members possess the knowledge and support to create high quality CAREER applications. In this study, we investigated the educational backgrounds, institutional affiliation, and public abstracts of CAREER awardees to document prevailing patterns in recognition through CAREER awards. This knowledge informs future work to provide additional support for early career faculty planning on applying to the program.

In this position paper, we claim that remote work offers a mechanism of control for identity disclosure and empowerment of software developers from marginalized communities. By talking to several transgender software developers we identified three themes that resonate across the trans experience and intersect with the advantages to working in software development remotely: identity disclosure, high-impact technical work and the autonomy to disengage and re-engage. Based on these themes we identify several open questions that the research community should address.

This Research Full Paper investigates how students experience “gender-balanced“ engineering environments and how alumni narrate the stories of their experiences in such “gender-balanced“ engineering environments. Using the grounded theory approach, this study examines interviews of engineering alumni about their experiences in a “gender-balanced” educational environment. Using two emergent constructs, awareness and impact, we take a detailed look at how gender has shaped the participants’ undergraduate and post-graduate experiences. These constructs suggest that having parity in the number of men and women in an engineering institution is not sufficient for creating equitable environments for men and women to thrive.

This Research Full Paper explores how undergraduate students understood the social relevance of their engineering course content knowledge and drew (or failed to draw) larger social and ethical implications from that knowledge. Based on a qualitative case study conducted in a junior level engineering class, we found that the majority of students had difficulty perceiving the social and ethical aspects of engineering as important or appropriate topics in an engineering course. Many students only considered the immediate technical usability of or improved efficiency from technical innovations as the primary social and ethical implications of engineering. This study investigates a potentially critical flaw in the structure of engineering programs, highlighting the limitations that accompany a discipline-specific academic focus. Highly structured programs leave little room for engineering students to interact with other students/programs on campus, and limit opportunities to engage in meaningful interdisciplinary discourses and expand their perspective.

In this Research to Practice Full Paper it is recognized that four-year engineering technology programs include far more African American students than four-year engineering programs. Comparisons of studies focused on engineering technology or engineering programs or both programs indicate that this difference is considerable and is evident over a period of at least a decade. These findings support the need for research on the underrepresented engineering technology student population.There is a great deal of diversity research in engineering, and some of the other fields often associated with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). However, this is not the case with the student population in engineering technology. Studies on engineering technology students often focus on students in the majority, which proves to be white male students. This results in the lack of focus and understanding of whom the underrepresented students are and their formal and informal learning influences. Learning in the formal and informal community and family environments have been shown by research to support and influence student choices as well as their future success. Thus, the influence of the underrepresented engineering technology student’s past and current environments is significant but relatively unknown.Researchers intended to gather data from underrepresented engineering technology student populations with a survey they developed. The survey queries student demographics, community and school support and preparation for the university experience, as well as their plans for the future. The original survey distribution resulted in responses from the students in the majority. The responses resulted in an understanding of the students in the majority, again leaving underrepresented students out of the study results. The survey has been re-distributed to primarily female and female underrepresented groups with the intent of furthering our understanding of the female and female underrepresented engineering technology students, their demographic, their past, and future. Thus increasing our knowledge of the contrasts of these students will support recruitment and retention efforts by these universities’ administration.

Multidisciplinary teams that include engineers as well as art and culture designers, have the potential to promote awareness of various perspectives, while practicing design thinking (DT) methods. The DT approach places the customer needs up-front, and emphasizes building empathy with users, observing their behavior, and drawing conclusions about what people want and need. In this position paper we leverage on a multidisciplinary learning experience that took place at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, and describe how working in such teams enhanced the realization of different stakeholders' needs while addressing their emotional state. We then illustrate our approach in the context of privacy requirements which – as former studies reveal – are often underperformed, as users' privacy concerns receive little attention.

Sophisticated data science techniques have recently been applied to social networks data to study social phenomena and people. Recognizing that social psychology research has witnessed a renewed interest in the notion of wisdom, with an emphasis to its contextual dimensions, this study looks at the expression of wisdom in twitter messages. Specifically, it examines the relation between wisdom in adversity and cultural influences using Twitter data from the tragic Japanese tsunami of 2011. The study employs natural language processing and data science to detect the expression of wisdom. Two categories for wisdom in adversity are used: recognition of uncertainty and change, and cognitive empathy. Data processing is applied to 1,000 annotated tweets and extended to 43,436 tweets. The results show that it is viable to study wisdom in context using social networking sites data. This short paper discusses some of the findings., ASONAM 2018 : 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 28-31 Aug. 2018, Barcelona, Spain