Facial expressions and speech are means to convey information. They can be used to reinforce speech or even complementary to speech. The main goal of our research is to investigate how facial expressions can be associated to textbased speech in an automated way. As a first step we studied how people attach smileys to text in chat sessions and facial expressions to text balloons in cartoons. We ...

BACKGROUND Synchronous written conversations (or "chats") are becoming increasingly popular as Web-based mental health interventions. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to evaluate and summarize the quality of these interventions. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to review the current evidence for the feasibility and effectiveness of online one-on-one mental health interventions that us...

‘Integrative CALL’ (Warschauer, 1996) refers to developments in language learning in this phase. The learner is placed in authentic situations where learning simultaneously involves listening, seeing, doing, participating and reflecting. This paper shares some insights into this new paradigm in language learning where the online delivery of a course gives learners more control over their own le...

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Considerable research on computer-mediated communication has examined online communication between strangers, but little is known about the emotional experience of connectedness between friends in digital environments. However, adolescents and emerging adults use digital communication primarily to communicate with existing friends rather than to make new connections. We compared feelings of emo...

The technology of change is rapid, it is all encompassing, and it is inescapable. The question emerges in this swift acquisition of new technology – what is lost and what is gained? Traits such as social introversion and defensiveness can inhibit traditional styles of communication. It is believed that electronic communication tools can facilitate communication with certain personality traits a...

In this paper sensory information transfer methods for sight, sound, and text chat are proposed. The authors have studied a foreign language acquisition system Orbis utilizing cyber worlds. For such a system, realistic communication, and the server CPU load and the network traffic become important issues. A concept of communication space to control sensory information in a cyber world is introd...

The Virtual Math Teams (VMT) project is part of an effort to investigate group cognition— the accomplishment of problem-solving and knowledge-building tasks by small groups, particularly in online, distributed contexts. The VMT environment has recently integrated a wiki component into its text chat and shared whiteboard system. The wiki component serves a number of purposes, such as summarizing...