The Three-Clinic Hearing Aid Selection Profile (HASP) was developed to assess a patient's beliefs about a number of basic considerations felt to be critical to the hearing aid selection (HAS) process. These characteristics are felt to be key to the acceptance of amplification and include motivation, expectations, cost of goods and services, appearance (cosmesis), attitudes about technology, phy...

This article describes preliminary results of a comparative study of communicative behaviour in Danish and Spanish negotiation interaction. The position is taken that from a socio-psychological point of view negotiation strategies may be accounted for in terms of face needs and feeling and display rules. It is argued that distributive behaviour is prevailing in both cultures, but that the corre...

Successful dialogue is based on collaborative efforts of the interactants to ensure mutual understanding. This paper presents work towards making conversational agents ‘attentive speakers’ that continuously attend to the communicative feedback given by their interlocutors and adapt their ongoing and subsequent communicative behaviour to their needs. A comprehensive conceptual and architectural ...

This research tackles the importance of language fluency and accuracy in addressing learners’ needs achieving their goals behind learning relation to using various communicative situations related work or academic life. Language vary based on interests. Many learners are interested improving when communication daily lives, whereas we find other who focus linguistic such situations. aims at reve...

In this paper, our research studies on prosody variation modeling are introduced for communicative prosody characterization and the objective evaluation of the second language (L2) timing control characteristics. For communicative prosody characterization, a possibility of lexicon driven control and further needs of dialogue-act modeling are discussed. For the objective evaluation of L2 prosody...

In this paper, our research studies on prosody variation modeling are introduced for communicative prosody characterization and the objective evaluation of the second language (L2) timing control characteristics. For communicative prosody characterization, a possibility of lexicon driven control and further needs of dialogue-act modeling are discussed. For the objective evaluation of L2 prosody...