The construct of rapport is arguably one of the central, if not the central, construct necessary to understanding successful helping relationships and to explaining the development of personal relationships. The role of nonverbal behavior in initiating and signaling rapport has its roots in the work of Watzlawick, Beavin, and Jackson (1967). Tickle-Degnen and Rosenthal substantially advance our...

On pourrait croire que le rapport final de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada (CVR)1 concerne les peuples autochtones, ce qui n’est que partiellement vrai. En fait, le rapport de 528 pages publié en 2015, tout comme les 94 recommandations qui en découlent,2 concerne tous les Canadiens. Si vous vivez au Canada, ce rapport s’adresse donc à vous, particulièrement si vous êtes un p...

Within ethnography, observation and participation are interwoven as sociological research practice that involves watching, listening and asking questions about people’s daily lives and experiences, and the meaning they attach to these. For ethnographic researchers a close and regular engagement with participants raises both practical and ethical challenges related to intrusion, relationship bou...

R É S U M É L’adaptation de domaine est un challenge important pour les futures applications de remote sensing. Les contraintes tant financières que temporelles relative à l’aquisition de données labelisées incitent à mettre au point de nouvelles techniques permettant l’utilisation d’information provenant de différentes sources. Différentes approches ont vu le jour, considérant les caractéristi...

Nonverbal behaviors play a crucial role in shaping outcomes in face-to-face clinical interactions. Experienced clinicians use nonverbals to foster rapport and "read" their clients to inform diagnoses. The rise of telemedicine and virtual health agents creates new opportunities, but it also strips away much of this nonverbal channel. Recent advances in low-cost computer vision and sensing techno...

When conducting photo elicitation interviews (PEI), researchers introduce photographs into the interview context. Although PEI has been employed across a wide variety of disciplines and participants, little has been written about the use of photographs in interviews with children. In this article, the authors review the use of PEI in a research study that explored the perspectives on camp of ch...

Résumé. L’équilibrage de charge dans les grilles de calcul représente un défi pour les chercheurs et les développeurs de ces types de systèmes. Ce défi est en rapport avec les particularités de ces infrastructures, à savoir, l’hétérogénéité, la dynamicité et le passage à l’échelle. Ce challenge devient beaucoup plus complexe quand il s’agit d’équilibrer la charge d’un système traitant des tâche...

Within ethnography, observation and participation are interwoven as sociological research practice that involves watching, listening and asking questions about people’s daily lives and experiences, and the meaning they attach to these. For ethnographic researchers a close and regular engagement with participants raises both practical and ethical challenges related to intrusion, relationship bou...

Interpersonal postural coordination (IPC) produced by interpersonal light touch (ILT), whereby time-series variations in the postural sway between two people unintentionally resemble each other, may be a possible social interaction. From a sociopsychological standpoint, close mutual behavioral coordination is recognized as "social glue," which represents the closeness of relationships and contr...