The subject of the study is peculiarities development interpretation skills. object formation oral conversational skills among linguists-translators when teaching Chinese as a foreign language. used methods deduction and induction, comparative, contextual analysis. author examines in detail such aspects topic translation erudition, characteristics interpretation, identification effective exerci...

We discuss the development of an embodied conversational agent with Asperger-like communication skills. The agent was developed for use in educational software in a virtual environment specifically aimed at autism spectrum disorder software. We describe the design and implementation of the agent, and pay particular attention to the interaction between emotion, personality and social context. A ...

The Metalogue project aims to develop a multi-modal, multi-party dialogue system with metacognitive abilities that will advance our understanding of natural conversational human-machine interaction and dialogue interfaces. This paper introduces the vision for the system and discusses its application in the context of debate skills training where it has the potential to provide learners with a r...

We report on a pilot experiment conducted in order to investigate whether computer-based conversational focused tasks promote acquisition of forms. The structure we targeted was the German dative case in prepositional phrases. The goal of the task we designed was two-fold: First, learners should improve their overall communicative skills in the scenario and, second, expand their mastery of the ...

The Tactical Language and Culture Training System (TLCTS) is designed to teach foreign language and culture skills using a task based approach. The system is unique from other language and culture training systems in that it uses an interactive environment containing conversational agents that behave appropriately for the targeted language and culture. In this presentation we explain our curren...

This paper describes work in the recently started project SEMAINE, which aims to build a set of Sensitive Artificial Listeners – conversational agents designed to sustain an interaction with a human user despite limited verbal skills, through robust recognition and generation of non-verbal behaviour in real-time, both when the agent is speaking and listening. We report on data collection and on...

This empirically-supported manual provides an overview of group treatment sessions and strategies for tackling issues such as developing conversational skills, choosing appropriate friends, using humor, planning get-togethers, using good sportsmanship, and handling peer rejection, such as teasing, physical bullying, gossiping, and disagreements. Each session chapter includes handouts, homework ...

Currently there is no standardized, quantitative measure of the reticence construct created by Phillips (1965, 1984, 1986). Critics (e.g., Glaser, 1981) have argued that this has made it difficult to compare findings across studies of reticence as well as to establish the effectiveness of skills training programs such as the rhetoritherapy program Phillips developed for the treatment of reticen...

Being able to communicate efficiently has been acknowledged as a vital skill in many different domains. In particular, team communication skills are of key importance in the operation of complex machinery such as aircrafts, maritime vessels and such other, highly-specialized, civilian or military vehicles, as well as the performance of complex tasks in the medical domain. In this paper, we prop...

Although representation of physical environments and behaviors will continue to play an important role in simulation-based training, an emerging challenge is representation of virtual humans with rich mental models (e.g., including emotions, trust) that interact through conversational behaviors as well as physical ones. The motivation for such simulations is training soft-skills such as leaders...