Interactivity is something researchers study, new technology commercials promote, and designers create. It's not something people do. People use the internet, watch TV, shop, explore, learn, send and receive email, look things up... The word interactivity and its derivatives are used to represent so many different meanings that the word muddles rather than clarifies the speaker's intent. The co...

Online discussion activities are designed for computer-mediated learning activities in face-to-face, hybrid, and totally online courses. The use of asynchronous computer-mediated communication (A-CMC) coupled with authentic workplace case studies provides students in the protected learning environment with opportunities to practice workplace decision making and communication. In this study, com...

EE K. BuRGOON IS Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of seven books and nearly two hundred articles and chapters on topics related to interpersonal and nonverbal communication, deception and credibility, mass media, and new communication technologies. Her current research focuses on i...

INTRODUCTION The question of interactivity in technical communication is complex. First, building interactive technical documents means relinquishing some amount of control over authorship, readership, and document presentation, each of which can be frightening for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the uncertainty involved in this process. Second, interactivity in technical docume...

Most recently, the notion of interactivity has gained rapidly increasing interest within the telecommunications community. Especially in the context of network quality planning (EModel) it is suspected that interactivity might be of crucial impact on the perceived Qualityof-Service of biand multilateral communication over delayed transmission channels. In order to explore this in depth, an inst...

RÉSUMÉ. A l’heure actuelle un besoin d’interactivité renaissant se manifeste chez les consommateurs. Il traduit des attentes fortes en termes de proximité relationnelle, de convivialité et d’identification mutuelle. Cette interactivité numérique modifie le modèle de représentation du monde et pose le problème du cadre d’interprétation de cette information. Les entreprises, notamment les marques...

The problem of modality detection in so called communicative interactivity is addressed. Multiple audio and video recordings of human communication are analyzed within this framework, based on fusion of the extracted features. At the decision level, support vector machines (SVMs) are utilized to segregate between the communication modalities. The proposed approach is verified through simulation...

Interactivity is defined by Henri (1992) as a three-step process involving communication of information, a response to this information, and a reply to that first response. It is a key dimension of computer-mediated communication, particularly in the one-on-one communication involved in an electronic mentoring program. This report analyzes the interactivity between pairs of corporate research s...