This paper deals with multimodal turn management in an annotated Danish corpus of video recorded dyadic conversations between young people who meet for the first time. Conversation participants indicate whether they wish to give, take or keep the turn through speech as well as body behaviours. In this study we present an analysis of turn management body behaviours as well as classification expe...

This paper proposes an integrated approach to realtime detection, tracking and direction recognition of human faces, which is intended to be used as an human-robot interaction interface for the intelligent wheelchair. Adaboost face detection is applied inside the comparatively small window which is slightly bigger than the Camshift tracking window, so that the face precise position, size and fr...

Several studies have investigated the relation between information structure and intonation structure. Few studies however have investigated this relationship empirically using natural face-to-face conversations. The current study explores this relation using a large corpus of face-to-face conversations on a map navigation task. In this task dialogue partners sometimes do and sometimes do not h...

Synchronous computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) tools are intended to provide opportunities for remotely located groups to work together in a manner akin to groups meeting face-to-face. Little is understood , however, of what may innuence the eeectiveness of group work performed under these circumstances. One likely factor is the way in which``oor control', or turn management is supporte...

This paper explores the role of gaze in coordinating turn-taking in mixed-initiative conversation and specifically how gaze indicators might be usefully modeled in computational dialogue systems. We analyzed about 20 minutes of videotape of eight dialogues by four pairs of subjects performing a simple face-to-face cooperative laboratory task. We extend previous studies by explicating gaze patte...

This paper argues that existing models of urban concentrations are incomplete unless grounded in the most fundamental aspect of proximity; face-to-face contact. Face-to-face contact has four main features; it is an efficient communication technology; it can help solve incentive problems; it can facilitate socialization and learning; and it provides psychological motivation. We discuss each of t...

six causes of revelation have been related concerning āya 115 of sūrat al-baqara; i.e. the noble āya, ﴾to allah belong the east and the west: so whichever way you turn, there is the face of allah! allah is indeed all-bounteous, all-knowing.﴿ because of their relation through the shī‘a, two of these causes of revelation have attracted more attention of the imāmī jurisprudents. these two traditio...

This paper leverages the repressive turn in U.S. migration policy to understand how a cross-border perspective can illuminate experiences of two different, but contemporaneous second-generation populations: Those whose lives have unfurled United States, all while growing up internationalized families with ongoing homeland ties; and those childhoods began were disrupted as part ‘Great Expulsion’...