A comparison of the effects of transactional and transformational leadership in synchronous and a synchronous online teamwork was conducted. In the study, groups of four participants interacted in online text chat and online text forum in problem solving tasks. The groups were leaded by a confederate who acted as a transactional or a transformational leader. Satisfaction in the interactions and...

This demo paper describes our Artificial Intelligent Dialogue Agent (AIDA), a dialogue management and orchestration platform under development at the Institute for Infocomm Research. Among other features, it integrates different human-computer interaction engines across multiple domains and communication styles such as command, question answering, task-oriented dialogue and chat-oriented dialog...

This is an informal discussion from my personal perspective on computersupported collaborative learning (CSCL). I envision an epical opportunity for promising new media to enable interpersonal interaction with today’s network technologies. While asynchronous media have often been tried in classroom settings, I have found that synchronous text chat in small workgroups can be particularly engagin...

In this paper, we describe experiments conducted on identifying a person using a novel unique correlated corpus of text and audio samples of the person’s communication in six genres. The text samples include essays, emails, blogs, and chat. Audio samples were collected from individual interviews and group discussions and then transcribed to text. For each genre, samples were collected for six t...

Personal Assistants, or conversational interfaces, chat bots reinvent a new way for individuals to interact with computes. A Virtual Assistant allows user simply ask questions in the same manner that they would address human, and are even capable of doing some basic tasks like opening apps, reading out news, taking notes etc., just voice command. Assistants Google Assistant, Alexa, Siri works b...

Network Informal Language (NIL) refers to the special human language widely used in the community of digital network chat via platforms such as chat rooms/tools, mobile phone short message services (SMS), bulletin board systems (BBS), emails, etc. NIL holds anomalous characteristics in forming words, phrases, and non-alphabetical characters. This makes it difficult to handle NIL text by convent...

In the present article we use a chat conversations’ corpus to study the process of resolving language problems. Our corpus includes chat conversations which took place between LSP students engaged in correcting errors in their peers’ summaries. The participants worked in groups and used the W indows Messenger program for communication within the group. Their task also included making use of ele...

Mobile communication has become a significant part of everyday life. The advent of mobile phones and PDA’s has reinforced the necessity for people to be connected without being physically tied down. Communication is key, but current modalities are restricted to simple protocols such as telephony, and less expressive mediums such as text messaging. TattleTrail is an archiving audio chat applicat...