In this paper, we present a prototype that helps visualizing the relative importance of sentences extracted from medical texts using Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA). We propose to map rhetorical structures automatically recognized in the documents onto a set of communicative acts controlling the expression of an ECA. As a consequence, the ECA will dramatize a sentence to reflect its percei...

An important part of human intelligence, both historically and operationally, is our ability to communicate. We learn how to communicate, and maintain our communicative skills, in a society of communicators – a highly effective way to reach and maintain proficiency in this complex skill. Principles that might allow artificial agents to learn language this way are incompletely known at present I...

Communicative competence is one of the most highly sought after skills of prospective graduates among employers. In spite of its importance, the notion of communicative competence has been deemed fuzzy in Communication and Engineering studies. This fuzziness has undoubtedly led to tensions among stakeholders like educators and professional engineers across disciplinary tenures in interpreting t...

This paper describes the DAMSL annotation scheme for communicative acts in dialog The scheme has three layers Forward Communicative Functions Backward Communicative Functions and Utterance Features Each layer allows multiple communicative functions of an utterance to be labeled The Forward Communicative Functions consist of a taxonomy in a similar style as the actions of traditional speech act ...

Getting involved in a virtual environment (VE) cannot be only considered a plain process of attention shifting, but it must be regarded as well as a crucial event able to distinguish the actors’ communication in a peculiar way. A study is presented herein in order to describe patients’ communicative style in a psychological treatment supported by Virtual Reality (VR). In particular, we proposed...

The peer-related communicative interactions of nonhandicapped 3and 4-year-old children as well as a group of 4-year-old mildly developmentally delayed children were investigated in a cross-sectional descriptive study. Adjustments of speakers to companions varying in terms of chronological age and developmental status were of interest, as were comparisons among the three groups. All three groups...

Research has cshown,'s!;udent 'field-independent cognitive stVle (FT),_as opposed to fleld-dependent Eognitiie style (FD), to be correlated moderately witlt success on selected second lanauage tasks..A trait treatment interaCtion approach was utilized in this study to examine the role of F6 /I among 236.collegs Students enrolled in six sections of an tntroductory Spanish course. The _ 'ourObse ...

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...