Student Perceptions of Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication in Face-to-Face Courses

Student elaborations in face-to-face versus computer-mediated-communication learning situations

Multimodal Communication in Face-to-Face Computer-Mediated Conversations

Multimodal communication involves multiple communicative channels including speech, facial movement, and gesture. Relatively few studies on how various communicative modalities are aligned in natural, face-to-face communication exist. As part of a larger project, the current study investigates how discourse structure, speech features, eye gaze, and facial movements interrelate during a map coor...

Blended Instruction: Student Perceptions of Communications Technology in Face-to-Face Courses

Blended instruction is becoming more commonplace in higher education. Students not only attend classes, meeting face-to-face with each other and their instructors, but they also can communicate electronically outside of class meetings using course management tools such as WebCT, BlackBoard, Angel, and the like. There has been a considerable amount of research on human interaction and communicat...

Analysing Face to Face Computer-mediated Interactions

Detailed analysis of face to face computer mediated interactions implies a study of a corpus composed of the interaction traces produced by the collaborative tool and video and audio recordings. Because of their separate nature, it is frequently difficult to perform this joint analysis. In order to facilitate such analyses we propose a model for describing corpora composed of sources from diffe...

The use of computer-mediated communication to enhance subsequent face-to-face discussions

A study assessing the effects of synchronous and asynchronous computer-mediated communication on subsequent face-to-face discussions was conducted. Participants were asked to read a short article about internet censorship. Then they were randomly assigned to one of three groups: a synchronous (internet chat) group, an asynchronous (internet discussion board) group and a control group. Both the ...