The last decade marked the emergence of the automated understanding of face-to-face social interaction as a research problem in computing. IM2 was originally focused on meetings (a quintessential form of interaction), and so over the years a body of work directed towards analyzing and inferring a variety of behaviors and interactions resulted from the project. One key aspect of the IM2 work has...

Filled pauses are generally seen as disfluency. Showing that they can play a positive role in computer generated speech is the purpose of this paper. Details about the causes, variation in pronunciation and syntactic location are acquired through a corpus analysis. This knowledge is then used in an experiment conducted to test positive effects of filled pauses in computer generated speech on li...

Facial expression plays an important role in human’s daily life, as indicated by (Mehrabian, 1968), in face-to-face human communication, only 7% of the communicative message is due to linguistic language, 38% is due to paralanguage, while 55% of it is transferred by facial expressions. Currently, facial expression has been widely researched in psychology, sociology, cognitive science, biology, ...

EDRS Price MF-$0.25 HC-$2.10 *Child Language, *Intonation, Language Development, Language Universals, Morphology (Languages), Paralinguistics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, *Verbal Communication This study of child language acquisition concerns various structural and paralinguistic features of language and examines their role in the total language acquisition process. The informants were three ...

THISNATURALISTICSTUDY EXAMINED THE ROLE of nonverbal communication in the academic library. Library users with information needs face the choice of trying to find the solution themselves or asking a librarian for assistance. This decision to approach or not approach a librarian and engage in interaction was studied through use of Mehrabian’s (196’7)immediacy metaphor. It was hypothesized that t...

Experienced counsellors have mentioned that the clientcounsellor relationship, which is of high importance in counselling, may be related to embodied synchrony of nonverbal behaviour, but there is little quantitative research on the topic. The present study captured the embodied synchrony of nonverbal behaviour in counselling from a multiple communication channel perspective, in order to examin...

It is not uncommon to hear university students complain about boring classes. The negative effects of boredom, which are at times larger than that of anxiety, have resulted in a concerted effort from researchers to identify causes of learners’ boredom and recommend strategies to mitigate this emotion. However, the research has overlooked the possibility that emotions may be transmitted from ins...

Research into the interactive behaviour and cognitive development of students in asynchronous online discussion forums has led to the development of a number of notions. Students in their interactions displayed similar cognitive indicators across various assigned topics for discussion. The impact of these initial communications led to the notion of “imprinting” as a means of characterising the ...

The Math Coach program provides help with mathematics instruction using online coaching. Instructive communication using text-based CMC with additional whiteboard capacity is used. Coachees range from sixth to ninth year of compulsory school, and upper secondary school (aged 12–19). Coaches are enrolled from students at teacher training colleges. Stenbom, Cleveland-Innes, & Hrastinski (2012) in...

In their paper, "Towards a Theory of Emotional Communication," Anne Bartsch and Susanne Hübner outline a model of emotional communication where emotional communication is conceptualized as a process of mutual influence between the emotions of communication partners. To elaborate this general notion further, four working definitions of emotional communication are introduced, each of which is bas...