In this study, we investigated the nature of establishing common ground during collaborative problem solving. Our goal was to investigate the following two points: (1) if the establishment of common ground leads to successful problem solving, and (2) how the two factors, communication experience and the richness of media, affect the establishment of common ground. We conducted a psychological e...

Clarification requests (CRs) are utterances that occur when the preceding utterance is not fully understood, exemplified in the reactions (1b) to the utterance (1a): [A:] Did Bo kowtow? [B:] What do you mean kowtow? CRs are a significant but understudied aspect of human interaction that is also of increasing practical interest (interaction that allows for partially successful communication is s...

SUCCESSFUL AGING: THE USE OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN AN ADULT DAY PROGRAM

How does modality affect people's ability to create a communication system from scratch? The present study experimentally tests this question by having pairs of participants communicate a range of pre-specified items (emotions, actions, objects) over a series of trials to a partner using either non-linguistic vocalization, gesture or a combination of the two. Gesture-alone outperformed vocaliza...

In this paper, we report on a case study examining types of organizational culture influencing communication as an important factor in the study of successful IT adoption and implementation in health care. We observed a hospital organization and focused on technological innovations and the accompanying communication factors in the successful implementation of IT. The results demonstrate the imp...

When many mobile robots should achieve cooperation, local communication system is considered appropriate from the standpoint of the cost and capacity of communication. This paper presents the optimization of the efficiency of local communication in environments where many mobile robots send out information stochastically. The optimal communication area is derived by minimizing transmission wait...

This paper describes an experimental study of interactivity effects in electronically mediated feedback communication. Conversational interactivity is expected to be lower when pairs of subjects are using mixed communication media. Performance feedback is expected to be less successful when interactivity is reduced, especially when the properties of the communication environment violate the nor...