Interruptions are common in joint activities like conversations. Typically, interrupted participants suspend the activity, address the interruption, and then reinstate the activity. In conversation, people jointly commit to interact and to talk about a topic, establishing these commitments sequentially. When a commitment is suspended, face is threatened and grounding disrupted. This article pro...

Low achievement in mathematics education has been an increasing problem in the recent years in Portugal. According to a 2010 study from the U.S. Department of Education, blended learning classes produce statistically better results than their face-to-face. There is also an increasing number of students using smartphones and tablets in schools. Mobile devices gained popularity as an educational ...

Gazing activities during utterances and silence were analyzed in a face-to-face three party conversation setting in a native language (L1) and in a second language (L2). The function of each utterance was categorized according to the Grounding Acts defined by Traum (Traum, 1994) so that gazes during utterances could be analyzed from the viewpoint of grounding in communication (Clark, 1996). Fac...

Unlike assistive technology for verbal communication, the brain-machine or brain-computer interface (BMI/BCI) has not been established as a non-verbal communication tool for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. Face-to-face communication enables access to rich emotional information, but individuals suffering from neurological disorders, such as ALS and autism, may not express their emo...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to ascertain the health and lifestyle factors associated with the activities of daily living (ADL) disability of centenarians in rural Chongqing, China. METHOD 564 centenarians living in rural Chongqing were selected for this cross-sectional study. Demographic characteristics and self-reported lifestyle factors were obtained from face-to-face interviews. ADL disabili...

Tim Bottorff is Head Librarian in the Universal Orlando Foundation Library at the University of Central Florida (Rosen College campus); e-mail: [email protected]. Andrew Todd is Reference Librarian, Regional Campus Libraries at the University of Central Florida (BCC/UCF Joint Use Library); e-mail: [email protected]. © Tim Bottorff and Andrew Todd Statistical reporting of library instru...

During the Covid-19 pandemic peak period, changes were devised for society to adapt new lifestyle without affecting its development. Among others, education was one of most affected areas in this period due mandatory social distancing. Education institutions adapted scenario by switching from face-to-face remote teaching, which brings advantages and disadvantages. To better understand teaching-...

Laboratory-based learning activities are important components of engineering and surveying education and it is difficult to offering practical activities to distance education students. Remote Access Laboratory (RAL) systems are widely discussed as learning tools to offer students remote access to rigs or hardware. In some disciplines laboratory activities are purely software based and RAL syst...

The question whether the recognition of individual faces is mandatory or task-dependent is still controversial. We employed the N250r component of the event-related potential as a marker of the activation of representations of facial identity in visual memory, in order to find out whether identity-related information from faces is encoded and maintained even when facial identity is task-irrelev...

Purpose — Municipalities commonly ask the public to give input by answering questions about their preferences. There is some belief that input enhances the public’s confidence in government. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether different types of input activities (obtained by phone or online surveys, or via face-to-face engagements) differentially impact confidence. Design/methodolog...