Envisioning social drones in education.

Education is one of the major application fields in social Human-Robot Interaction. Several forms of social robots have been explored to engage and assist students in the classroom environment, from full-bodied humanoid robots to tabletop robot companions, but flying robots have been left unexplored in this context. In this paper, we present seven online remote workshops conducted with 20 participants to investigate the application area of Education in the Human-Drone Interaction domain; particularly focusing on what roles a social drone could fulfill in a classroom, how it would interact with students, teachers and its environment, what it could look like, and what would specifically differ from other types of social robots used in education.

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific IgG antibodies in Kashmir, India, 7 months after the first reported local COVID-19 case: results of a population-based seroprevalence survey from October to November 2020.

Objectives: We designed a population-based survey in Kashmir to estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific IgG antibodies in the general population aged 18 years and above.

Setting: The survey was conducted among 110 villages and urban wards across 10 districts in Kashmir from 17 October 2020 to 4 November 2020.

Participants: Individuals aged 18 years and above were eligible to be included in the survey.

Engagement in Human-Agent Interaction: An Overview.

Engagement is a concept of the utmost importance in human-computer interaction, not only for informing the design and implementation of interfaces, but also for enabling more sophisticated interfaces capable of adapting to users. While the notion of engagement is actively being studied in a diverse set of domains, the term has been used to refer to a number of related, but different concepts. In fact it has been referred to across different disciplines under different names and with different connotations in mind.

Surgical management of epithelial parotid tumours.

Objective: To describe the clinicopathological presentation and treatment options in epithelial parotid tumours with emphasis on surgery.

Design: Descriptive study.

Place And Duration Of Study: ENT Departments of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad and Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi and Surgical Units at Rawalpindi General Hospital and DHQ Teaching Hospital, Rawalpindi, during a ten year period 1993-2003.