This thesis deals with gaze behaviour in human-human interactions. The aim of this work was to study and statistically analyse gaze direction during dialogues in order to suggest possible explanations about the role of gaze in social interactions. Previous research on gaze behaviour showed that visibility improved information transfer during human-human interaction. Recent works concentrated on...

Distributed scientific work is receiving widespread attention from computer science developers within the e-Science programme. With notable exceptions less attention has been paid to how, in practice, collaboration support across the grid might play out in everyday scientific and analytic work. Drawing on a specific thread of research in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work we note how models of...

This study examined the development of global intelligibility in one’s spontaneous workplace spoken ESL response to form-focused instruction (FFI) through analyses comments from both learner and tutor subjective listeners’ impressionistic judgments. The feedback individuals who worked with Malcolm showed perceived improvement Malcolm’s intelligibility, while no statistically significant change ...

Results of Perdew–Zunger self-interaction corrected (PZ-SIC) density functional theory calculations of the atomization energy of 35 molecules are compared to those of high-level quantum chemistry calculations. While the PBE functional, which is commonly used in calculations of condensed matter, is known to predict on average too high atomization energy (overbinding of the molecules), the applic...