The process of responding to supervisory feedback requires student writers position themselves toward both the provider and content that feedback, indicating their stance in interaction evolving disciplinary competence. How positionings are discursively shaped, developed, enacted influence thesis revisions, however, has been relatively unexplored. In this article, we trace how two master’s stud...

Prior computer-mediated group idea generation research has concluded that social loafing is likely an important factor in reducing individual and group task performance. Group researchers—both focusing on non-technology and technology-mediated groups—have theorized that loafing could be minimized if individuals and groups were given either clear feedback on their task performance or if given cl...

Controlling neurotransmitter release by modulating the presynaptic calcium level is a key mechanism to ensure reliable signal transmission from one neuron to the next. In this study, we investigated how the glutamatergic output of cone photoreceptors (cones) in the mouse retina is shaped by different feedback mechanisms from postsynaptic GABAergic horizontal cells (HCs) using a combination of t...

Adult age differences in Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) measures were examined before and after statistical control of age-related differences in measures of feedback usage, working memory, and perceptual-comparison speed. The proportion of age-related variance associated with a summary measure of WCST performance was greatly reduced after controlling for measures of feedback usage, working...

Computer mediated communication 2. .. 1. Theories and Methods Technology mediated communication is a fact of life. The human communication apparatus is constrained in several ways. There are limits to the distance at which speech is audible, and visible behaviours such as gesture, gaze or facial expressions are perceivable. Furthermore, these natural communication behaviours are ephemeral and d...

Microblog, as a way of online communication, can generate large amounts of information in a very short period. Therefore, how to retrieve the latest relevant information becomes a hot research area. Different from traditional information retrieval (IR), the microblog retrieval emphasizes fresh contents of the information. In order to solve this problem, we extend the traditional IR methods by t...

This paper describes the validation study of our software that uses combined webcam and microphone data for real-time, continuous, unobtrusive emotion recognition as part of our FILTWAM framework. FILTWAM aims at deploying a real time multimodal emotion recognition method for providing more adequate feedback to the learners through an online communication skills training. Herein, timely feedbac...

In face-to-face communication and collaboration people are used to being able to both see and hear other persons. People also take for granted the possibility to give objects to each other, to shake hands or to get someone’s attention by a pat on the shoulder. However, most systems for mediated collaboration do not take physicality into account. Now emerging media space technologies like threed...