Humans have a biological predisposition to form attachment to social partners, and they
seem to form attachment even toward non-human and inanimate targets. Attachment styles …

The recent return of wolves to the Hungarian forests escalates conflicts among stakeholders.
Hunting management agencies communicate that the presence of wolves may change the …

The Mobile Attachment Scale (MAS; Konok et al., 2016), was developed within the context
of a study investigating humans' attachment to their mobile phones and its relationship with …

Large carnivores are recovering in many regions of Europe, which generates many conflicts
with different stakeholders. Bükk National Park in Hungary is a suitable area to study the …

The role of volunteer birdwatchers in bird censuses across the world is crucial to acquire
data for sci-ence and conservation, and people with different skill specializations and …

Humans have a biological predisposition to form attachment to social partners, and they
seem to form attachment even toward non-human and inanimate targets. Attachment styles …

We examine a vocabulary of affective language, borrowed from Roland Barthes’ “A Lover’s
Discourse: Fragments,” and its applicability to discourse describing smartphone attachment. …

We present a mixed method study with logging of the actual behavior on WeChat of 29
Android phone users followed by test of their psychological traits. The results showed that …

Smartphones have gotten under public scrutiny due to their ostensible negative impact on
users' well-being. Nonetheless, users and related work report positive aspects of smartphones…

We propose a paradigm called Skin-On interfaces, in which interactive devices have their own
(artificial) skin, thus enabling new forms of input gestures for end-users (eg twist, scratch). …