42nd Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration: Abstracts

The Proceedings Book from the 18th International Conference Days of Applied Psychology titled "Current Challenges in Psychological Science" showcases a selection of papers meticulously curated from the presentations at the 18th International Conference “Days of Applied Psychology,” held on September 23rd & 24th, 2022, in an online format. Rooted in tradition, this annual conference has been a flagship event since 2005, organised by the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia. The conference's inception was underpinned by the vision of fostering a platform for the convergence of researchers and practitioners, facilitating discussions that bridge the chasm between scientific exploration and pragmatic applications across diverse psychological domains. Since its beginning, the conference has welcomed participants of international provenance, a trend that steadily gains momentum with each passing year. Over recent years, the conference has particularly focused on not only disseminating scientific findings from varied psychological disciplines but also nurturing dialogue among scholars with diverse cultural and professional backgrounds. This publication contains 12 reviewed original scientific papers. The authors of these articles come from 8 countries: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, India, Japan, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia. The abstracts featuring the research results from these articles were presented at the conference as the part of the sessions: Personality and Individual Differences, Work, Organization & Mental Health, Protective Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Psychometrics, Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Motor Behaviour & Sports Psychology, Psychotherapy & Mental Health and two symposia: Forest Bathing Without the Forest: The Urban Nature Experience and Share Your Attitude: Mental Health Services, Asylum Seekers and Nationalism – Under the Veil of Personal and Some Other Factors. Paper Psychological Factors Involved in Criminal Recidivism explores the intricate interplay of psychological attributes contributing to repeated criminal behaviours. This topic resonates as a vital investigation within the discipline of criminal psychology, seeking to unveil the underlying mechanisms driving persistent engagement in criminal activities. Within the thematic section of Work, Organization & Mental Health, two papers make noteworthy contributions. Work-Family Conflict and Turnover Intention: The Mediation Role of Optimism shines a light on the interplay between work-family dynamics and the intention to leave a job, with optimism acting as a mediating factor. Simultaneously, the investigation into Job Demands, Job Resources and Personal Resources as Determinants of Burnout of Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic sheds crucial insights into the occupational burnout experienced by healthcare personnel during times of crisis. The strand of Protective Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic explores pivotal dimensions of public health behaviours. Sharing is (Not) Caring! Predicting Intent to Vaccinate Against COVID-19 by Emotional and Cognitive Factors investigates the intricate interplay of emotions and cognition in predicting vaccination intent, and Fear of COVID-19 and Personality Traits as Predictors of Motivation for Vaccination addresses the interplay between psychological attributes and vaccination motivations,

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007). HRI is a highly selective annual conference that seeks to showcase the very best research and thinking in human-robot interaction. Human-robot interaction is inherently inter-disciplinary, and the conference sought papers from researchers in robotics, human-factors, ergonomics, human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, and other fields. The mission of the conference is to create a common venue for this broad set of researchers.This year's conference theme is "Robot as Team Member". Robots are used in such critical domains as search and rescue, military theater, mine and bomb detection, scientific exploration, law enforcement, and hospital care. Such robots must coordinate their behaviors with human team members; they are more than mere tools but rather quasi-team members whose tasks have to be integrated with those of humans. HRI 2007 is dedicated to these and other issues in human and robot interaction, highlighting the importance of building core science and understanding the social and technical issues in human-robot interaction in the context of teams and groups.Of the 93 submissions, the program committee accepted 22 papers and 26 posters that cover a variety of topics, among them field studies of robots in public spaces, operator-robot rescue teams, attributions of robot behavior, and human-robot dialogue. The program includes paper presentations, a video session, two interactive poster sessions, panels on robots in teams and the future of HRI research, and keynote speeches by human teamwork expert, J. Richard Hackman of Harvard, and by Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University and ATR. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for HRI researchers and students.

Sonification as a means for exploring and analysing data is an established research domain in the field of Auditory Displays. Since 1992, the International Community for Auditory Displays (ICAD) fosters the development of this field through the organization of annual conferences, special journal issues, scientific publications, and research advancements. Sonification has been a focal point in these activities. This paper reflects on nearly 3 decades of sonification research, analysing the proceedings of the past 24 ICAD conferences in a semi-automated manner. The balance between artistic and scientific data exploration as well as changes in the focus of sonification-related work published are monitored and discussed. Word frequency analysis on the abstracts and titles of selected papers shines further light into the evolution of sonification as reflected in the ICAD conference proceedings.

The International Council of Museums defines museology as a field of scientific study that "includes all the efforts at theorization and critical thinking about the museal field" with "the common denominator" being "a specific relation between man and reality.expressed by documenting that which is real and can be grasped through direct sensory contact" (Desvallees and Mairesse, 2010, p. 56).This prevailing view, although accepted globally, stands in stark contrast to the etymology of the word "museum" from the Greek word mouseion as a temple or haunt of the muses and to the plethora of historical and contemporary accounts of seemingly non-material museum experiences characterized by qualities of intuition (Fisher, 2006), psychometry (Fischer, 2013), magic (e.g., Ciaccia, 2022), and other unexplained phenomena.What if, instead of overlooking these anomalous visitor experiences which rarely gain notice in mainstream museological literature, a framework was cra ed to elevate, connect, and study "unusual" experiences that occur in the presence of objects across museums of art, history, and anthropology?Inspired by the Society for