Computer-mediated communication: experiments with e-mail readability

Computer-mediated communication: experiments with e-mail readability

Toward Parameterisation of E-mail Mediated Communication

In this article we formulated a model of psycho-social elements of the process of receiving an e-mail. The corresponding technique starts by recognising the relevant states of a human receiver and a received e-mail. The states are parameterised, paying special attention to the description of receiver’s emotional states, as the event of receiving is more localised in time than that of sending an...

An Affective Aspect of Computer-Mediated Communication : Analysis of Communications by E-mail

We focus on an affective aspect of communications by e-mail. In this study university students communicated their information to anonymous companions by e-mail to examine the relations between their affective traits, affective states and affective interpretations. Before the e-mail communication, as the affective traits, they were asked to give the frequencies of 12 affects that they experience...

Learning Pragmatics through Computer-Mediated Communication in Taiwan

This study investigated the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of requests by college-level English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Taiwan. The goal was to determine first whether the use of explicit pragmatic instruction had a positive effect on EFL learners’ pragmatic competence. Second, the relative effectiveness of presenting pragmatics through two deli...

E-mail Communication and Group Cooperation

Two empirical studies are presented that explore how and why e-mail communication (versus face-to-face communication) influences cooperation in mixed motive group contexts. Results indicate that, relative to those engaging in face-to-face interaction, those who interacted via e-mail were (1) less cooperative and (2) felt more justified in being non-cooperative. Feelings of justification mediate...