Small Talk

The Digital Privacy Paradox: Small Money, Small Costs, Small Talk

This paper uses data from the MIT digital currency experiment to shed light on consumer behavior regarding commercial, public and government surveillance. The setting allows us to explore the apparent contradiction that many cryptocurrencies offer people the chance to escape government surveillance, but do so by making transactions themselves public on a distributed ledger (a ‘blockchain’). We ...

Animal Communication: Big Talkers and Small Talk

Vocal tract resonances, known as formants, are important perceptual cues for the identification of human speech and animal calls. A recent study shows that monkeys can also use formants to determine the age and size of the monkey producing a call.

Big talk, Small talk. A crucial but neglected knowledge management activity

Small Talk Versus Smart Talk: Providing Accounting Content and Emotional Support in a Distance Education Course

Integratingmobile phones into higher education, andmore specifically in the distance education context, is no longer regarded a strange phenomenon. Mobile devices arewidely used by distance education institutions tomake learning available and accessible to increasingly more students. Although mobile learning providesmoremobility and convenience to these students than online learning, students m...

Small Talk Improves User Impressions of Interview Dialogue Systems

This paper addresses the problem of how to build interview systems that users are willing to use. Existing interview dialogue systems are mainly focused on obtaining information from users, thus they just repeatedly ask questions. We propose a method for improving user impressions by engaging in small talk during interviews. The system performs framebased dialogue management for interviewing an...