Meaningful language use rests on the grounding of the language in the nonlinguistic world and in the practices of language users. This grounding is built up and maintained in interaction, through Conversational Grounding, which is the interactive process with which interlocutors build mutual understanding; Justification, the ability to explain and provide reasons for one’s language use; and Ada...

This study explores the interactional effects and fit of internal external collaboration on supply chain performance based theory. Data collected from 205 firms located in China was used to test hypotheses via partial least squares structural equation modelling, polynomial regression response surface methodology. The results demonstrate that there is an interactive effect, i.e. between – a phen...

Knowledge sharing is an important variable in the knowledge management literature emphasizing the importance of social factors. Recent research has revealed that social-psychological and sociological factors are imperative to knowledge sharing. The theory of reasoned action (TRA) was designed to model how any specified behavior under volitional control is produced by beliefs, attitudes, and int...

This paper introduces a novel sonification-based interaction support for cooperating users in an Augmented Reality setting. When using head-mounted AR displays, the field of view is limited which causes users to miss important activities such as object interactions or deictic references of their interaction partner to (re-)establish joint attention. We introduce an interactive sonification whic...

The domain of Mixed Reality systems is currently making decisive advances on a daily basis. However, the knowledge and know-how of HCI scientists and interaction engineers, used in the design of such systems, is not well understood. This paper addresses this issue by proposing a software engineering method that couples a process for designing Mixed Reality interaction with a process for develop...

aim: the aim of this study is to identify a framework of needed expertise for publishing academic electronic textbooks according to the characteristics of this kind of books. therefore the final result focuses on needed experts through the consensus method. method: delphi technique using the researcher made questionnaire was done in four rounds. the research population was composed of forty exp...

I have elsewhere argued (Ariel, 2002) against the assumption that we can identify one literal meaning per sentence. Instead, I have suggested that there are (at least) three types of minimal meanings, each differently motivated. One implicit motivation behind the classical definition of literal meaning (Grice’s ‘what is said’) is a wish to capture the core content of sentences. I here examine d...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate interactional effects of patient-centered interviewing (PCI) compared to isolated clinician-centered interviewing (CCI). METHODS We conducted a pilot study comparing PCI (N=4) to CCI (N=4) for simulated new-patient visits. We rated interviews independently and measured patient satisfaction with the interaction via a validated questionnaire. We conducted interactional so...

Two studies were conducted to assess the influence of emotional context and social context, in terms of gender and status, on speaker expressivity and observer mimicry in a dyadic interactive setting. For Study 1, 96 same sex dyads and for Study 2, 72 mixed sex dyads participated in a social sharing paradigm. The results showed that in both same sex and mixed sex dyads women smile more than men...

The current study comparatively investigated the employment of metadiscourse items in 40 post-method sections/chapters research articles (RAs) and master’s dissertations (MAs) field applied linguistics. Utilizing Hyland’s (2005a) model analysing elements detected both sets texts, findings indicated that interactive features were more frequent texts than interactional items, dissertation subcorp...