Although detailed descriptions of proper handshakes partly comprise many etiquette books, how a normal handshake can be described, its proper duration, and the consequences of violating handshake expectations remain empirically unexplored. This study measured the effect of temporal violations of the expected length of a handshake (less than three seconds according to previous studies) administered unobtrusively in a naturalistic experiment. We compared volunteer participants’ ( N = 34; 25 females; 9 males; Mage = 23.76 years, SD = 6.85) nonverbal behavior before and after (a) a prolonged handshake (>3 seconds), (b) a normal length handshake (average length <3 seconds), and (c) a control encounter with no handshake. Frame-by-frame behavioral analyses revealed that, following a prolonged handshake (vs. a normal length or no handshake), participants showed less interactional enjoyment, as indicated by less laughing. They also showed evidence of anxiety and behavioral freezing, indicated by increased hands-on-hands movements, and they showed fewer hands-on-body movements. Normal length handshakes resulted in less subsequent smiling than did prolonged handshakes, but normal length handshakes were also followed by fewer hands-on-face movements than prolonged handshakes. No behavior changes were associated with the no-handshake control condition. We found no differences in participants’ level of empathy or state/trait anxiety related to these conditions. In summary, participants reacted behaviorally to temporal manipulations of handshakes, with relevant implications for interactions in interviews, business, educational, and social settings and for assisting patients with social skills difficulties.

The Problem Although previous research suggests current human resource management (HRM) policies and procedures do not fully accommodate the diverse strengths and needs of jobseekers and employees on the autism spectrum, the human resource development (HRD) community, including its scholars, researchers and practitioners will benefit from learning more about autism and how people with the condition can develop resilience capacity at work. The Solutions Utilizing a community-based participatory research approach (CBPR), we recommend an Autism Work Peer Support Group (AWPSG) program as a new framework that can help the HRD community as well as HRM work coaches and disability employment advisors to foster environments, where people’s social adaptation is key for their resilience capacity development. The Stakeholders The current research provides a framework on how a CBPR approach could be utilized to operationalize the design and evaluation of an employment intervention (i.e., AWPSG) that could involve autistic jobseekers in the process of resilience building. Furthermore, our findings indicate that fostering the emergence of a subjectively meaningful employment-focused peer support group program could help enlighten the HRD community about the challenges faced by this particular group and thereby offer effective autism-HRD advice and support to autistic jobseekers, employees and employers, management, work-coaches and disability employment advisors.

Safety and reliability cannot be tested into technical software systems on embedded control units after their development. Preventive actions have to be taken in respect of safety and reliability. An automatic and tool supported check of custom rules, industry standards and enterprise wide guidelines can support the quality assurance process. In the domain of automotive software engineering there is a lack of automatic checking for standard conformance. Especially, a formal and tool independent notation of rules to follow is missing. In this paper, the model-based development of automotive vehicle functions with the tools MATLAB, Simulink and Stateflow is taken as an example to show how textual rules describing standards to be met can be transformed into a formal notation using the open standards MOF and OCL. Thereafter these rules can be checked automatically. The feasibility of this approach is shown by a software demonstrator.

The increased amount of software in automotive embedded systems has challenged its C code development to successfully manage software design, reuse, flexibility and efficient implementation. Modelbased methods help to address such challenges with more abstract specification, code generation and simulation to determine if software design will meet requirements. However, in today's development processes lots of different legacy artifacts are involved, that hamper a frictionless migration from C code to model-based design. Therefore, migration concepts and adequate domain-specific methods with adoption of modeling languages and their tools in established embedded coding environments are needed. In our approach we present a novel migration concept considering the integration of two different modeling languages UML and Simulink in a traditional automotive software engineering process. The proof is demonstrated within the software development of a real automotive car door-controller ECU.

Abstract-Nowadays, the number of disaster and other crisis situations are growing, and the tasks of the Hungarian Defence Forces are significant. The National Disaster Management is the most important organization, but the Hungarian Defence Forces possess special equipment, and technical devices, so they take part in these situations as the other organizations like Law Enforcement, Hungarian Ambulance Services, and other civilian services. The defence forces have complex communication and information system, which build-up modular elements, so it is easy to use for command and control in these kind of tasks. In this article, the author shows the disaster relief tasks of the Hungarian Defence Forces, and the military communication and information capabilities in these crisis, and disaster situations.