Social construction of understanding has long been a significant underlying principle of learning and teaching, and while there are many models for the design of online activities to promote this, there are considerably fewer models for the facilitation of such dialogue. This paper examines some of these facilitation models from the point of view of a university tutor seeking to encourage socia...

New and emerging online trends in group education, work and communication have led to a dramatic increase in the quantity of information and connectivity without always supporting—and sometimes sacrificing—quality. An important opportunity is that online systems can include tools that directly support participants in having higher quality and more skillful engagements. We are evaluating dialogu...

This study extends the logic of prior studies showing phonetic convergence between interlocutors to structural domain. We ask whether listeners’ adaptation syntactic forms they produce depends on their perceptions about interlocutor's social proximity and linguistic competence, using priming as a measure convergence. Two experiments compared in dialogues native British English speakers (i) othe...

This paper highlights a segment of a larger study that examined the potential for CMC tools to foster reflective thinking among preservice teachers. Using a mixedmethods research design, the extent to which the CMC among six groups of preservice teachers was influenced by (a) the focus and structure of the CMC context, and (b) the interactions and social dialogue among peers was examined. Highl...

This paper explores the regulatory philosophies underlying the debates on privacy in e-commerce in the European Union and the United States. It offers a framework to grasp these differences and suggests that, in the ultimate, e-commerce players with transatlantic ambitions may need different organizations to deal with the EU and US

In this paper, we present the latest version of our dialogue games based agent communication language (DIAGAL) which allows the agents to manipulate the public layer of social commitments through dialogue. We show that DIAGAL is complete according to the sequential creation, cancellation, update and discharge of social commitments. We also extend and refine notions of success and satisfaction p...