To communicate effectively with laypersons, experts must take into account the knowledge of their communication partner. Although prior research has shown that experts tend to overor underestimate laypersons’ knowledge, little is known about the particular impact of such overand underestimations on communication. Particularly, in computer-mediated communication where feedback is limited, expert...

Computer-mediated communication systems (CMC) offer alternative means of communication within and across organisational contexts. Collaboration between virtual teams which meet via computer-mediated technologies, often takes place in a context where the teams are geographically distributed and the members in the teams have not met in a face-to-face meeting. In this context promoting effective c...

Available online 28 August 2013

The aim of this study was to investigate the nature of tutor and student online communication and collaboration activities in a blended learning course. The hypothesis that these activities are related to student learning performance (exam results) was tested based on the number of messages posted, as well as the nature of these messages (type of content transmitted in terms of course content-r...

Speakers are argued to adapt their language production to their addressee’s needs. For instance, speakers produce fewer and smaller hand gestures when interlocutors cannot see each other. Yet is this because speakers know their addressee cannot see them, or because they themselves do not see their addressee? By means of computer-mediated communication we manipulated these factors independently....

Project-Team EXMO Computer-mediated communication of structured knowledge Rhône-Alpes

A laboratory experiment was conducted to test the impact of communication medium (computermediated versus face-to-face) on the performance of three-person groups with an integrative negotiation task. Negotiation process variables this study investigated were: conflict management behavior, judgment accuracy and negotiation time. Negotiation outcome variables considered were joint profit and sati...

Research has dealt with the consequences of seeking casual partners online, but has been silent about its antecedents.To address this research gap, this study tested two hypotheses.The compensation hypothesis states that people high in dating anxiety and low in physical self-esteem seek casual dates online because the features of online communication (e.g. reduced cues, anonymity, controllabili...

It is commonly argued that asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) is preferable for promoting reflection and discussing complex ideas in e-learning environments. However, guidelines for when to use synchronous media are unavailable. In order to address this problem, we propose initial prescriptive guidelines for when to support synchronous communication, as a complement to asynchron...