This paper describes findings from a pilot study that compared the collaborative use by children of three different media formats: a paper book, a CD-ROM in a standard PC set-up, and a paper booklet augmented with digital content. These findings show how the book’s ergonomics provide a flexible and easily accessible interface which engenders fluid collaboration between pairs of children. These ...

The empirical focus of this paper is a conversational turn-taking phenomenon in which conjunctions produced immediately after a point of possible syntactic and pragmatic completion are treated by co-participants as points of possible completion and transition relevance. The data for this study are audio-video recordings of 5 unscripted face-to-face interactions involving native speakers of US E...

crux of the first 2 years of medical school. Whereas technological innovations can accommodate multiple locations, they exacerbate 4 interrelated challenges: classroom attendance, learner-centered education, videoconference teaching, and faculty development. Classroom attendance for lectures is not required. Because audio and video recordings are available online, many students elect to attend ...

Compendium, a graphical hypertext system, can be used to gather a semantic group memory when used in a meeting scenario. By way of a specifically designed ontology, this structure is applied as annotation to other forms of meeting capture, such as audio and video recordings, and further employed to navigate between and through these resources.

Streaming video on P2P overlays puts extremely high demands and stress on the underlying network, especially in case of TV and live streaming. The NAPAWINE consortium has devised an overall architecture for live video streaming that supports the needs of the users and content providers, while being respective of networklevel needs, as reducing inter-AS traffic using ALTO-like services. Prototyp...

Despite being a pan-cultural phenomenon, laughter is arguably the least understood behaviour deployed in social interaction. As well as being a response to humour, it has other important functions including promoting social affiliation, developing cooperation and regulating competitive behaviours. This multi-functional feature of laughter marks it as an adaptive behaviour central to facilitatin...