Humans naturally use an impressive variety of ways to communicate. In this work, we investigate the possibilities of complementing these natural communication channels with artificial ones. For this, augmented reality is used as a technique to add synthetic visual and auditory stimuli to people’s perception. A system for the mutual display of the gaze direction of two interactants is presented ...

For one, l ike myself, who knows something about human interaction, but next to nothing about computers and human/machine interaction, the most useful role at a meeting such as this is to l isten, to hear the troubles of those who work actively in the area, and to respond when some problem comes up for whose solution the practices of human interactants seems relevant. Here, therefore, I wi l l ...

this article aims to explore the role of the gender bias in the choice of address terms in some iranian contemporary stories. some address terms due to their gender distinctive functions refer either to men or women; however, as it has been observed the variability in the choice of some address forms or references are more or less due to the social status and values of the interactants in the t...

Adherence research has been dominated by attitudinal approaches that isolate individual statements made in interviews and then assign a fixed attitude to the individual who made that statement. Despite much sociological research having raised questions about the notion of fixed attitudes, little research has theorised the process by which individual utterances about medicine-taking are produced...

This guide provides eight tips for teachers on planning, developing, conducting, and evaluating online teaching. The refers to teaching as educational interactions made possible by using digital information technology, it relates, in particular, active or student-centred approaches In addition, the emphasises that is a multi-way process with many interactants, materials, actions conveying meani...

Effective learning occurs when interaction occurs. Interaction occurs when people engage each other, and engagement can occur in many ways. Learning from engagement can take place face-to-face. Engagement on telephones and emails is also a site for learning. Learning occurs in the engagement between a person and various kinds of texts, and when a person engages with the texts of their thoughts....

While speaking about social interaction, psychology claims as crucial the temporal correlations between interactants’ behaviours: to give to their partners a feeling of natural interaction, interactants, be human, robotic or virtual, must be able to react on appropriate time. Recent approaches consider autonomous agents as dynamical systems and the interaction as a coupling between these system...

Studies of facial responses during experimental and clinical pain have revealed a surprising phenomenon, namely, that a considerable number of individuals respond with a smile. So far, it is not known why smiling occurs during pain. It is possible that the "smile of pain" is socially motivated (e.g., reinforcing social bonds while undergoing an unpleasant experience). The present studies were c...