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The Game Changer: The Role of Persuasive Socially Assistive Robots in the Sustained Engagement and Motivation of Older Adults in a Cognitive Activity

This paper presents a month-long longitudinal study demonstrating that while both persuasive and instructional robot behaviors sustain older adults' engagement in cognitive activities, a persuasive interaction style is more effective at fostering positive responses and emotional connection, suggesting that a hybrid approach may best support long-term motivation.

Cristina Getson, Goldie Nejat2026-07-27
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Construction Method of Cyberspace Coordinate System Model Based on Topological Structure

This paper proposes a Cyberspace Topological Coordinate System (CTCS) model and a corresponding 3D framework that utilize logical, informational, and social relationships to effectively visualize and analyze complex network structures, outperforming traditional methods by integrating diverse data types and revealing node attributes and propagation paths.

kai qi, xiaofei hu, yang zhou, heng zhang, qingxiang li, shihao shi, shibo song2026-07-27
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Artificial Intelligence in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Diagnosis: Exploring Deep Transfer Learning Strategies

This study demonstrates that deep transfer learning, particularly using the EfficientNetB7 and ResNet50 models optimized with data augmentation and cross-validation, achieves high-precision classification of oral squamous cell carcinoma histological images, offering a promising solution to improve diagnostic accuracy and address inter-pathologist variability.

Soussan Irani, Alireza Fallahi, Arash Dehghan, Seied Parsa Saleh, Hassan Khotanlou, Hamed Ghadimi2026-07-25
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Toward Understanding AI Adoption in the Global South: An Empirical Study of Creative Practitioners' Experiences in Iran

This empirical study examines the experiences of creative practitioners in Iran with Generative AI, revealing how geopolitical constraints and technical limitations shape their adoption through dominant director mental models, compensatory labor, and the emergence of bottom-up "Folk Ethics" to navigate systemic inequities.

Farzaneh Hosseinian, Iman Sheikhansari2026-07-25