The quality of daily spontaneous conversations is importance towards both our well-being as well the development interactive social agents. Prior research directly studying has operationalized it in narrow terms, associating greater to less small talk. Other works taking a broader perspective interaction experience have indirectly studied through one several overlapping constructs such rapport ...

The most notable characteristic of continuous-media data is the existence of timing constraints. To handle such data appropriately, some system support for resource management and QOS control is indispensable. For this reason, we are proposing a “QOS-Ticket” model, which combines resource reservation and adaptation. The QOSTicket model has been implemented on RT-Mach. In this prototype, a new t...

The proposed system is designed to support the dynamic formation of human relationships between strangers in networked virtual space. This system attempts to locate the most suitable virtual space for the content of their conversation. The system analyzes the conversation by using morphological analysis and provides candidate virtual spaces related to the conversation topic. Users can change th...

Pedagogical strategies increasing rely on technology as a way to address challenges facing the contemporary higher education classroom. This study investigated the use of a tool designed with the specific purpose of student engagement in a large classroom. The tool allows students to post to a community based discussion in a manner similar to a Twitter feed. Despite engaging in a community dial...

Electronic meeting control has been the focus of many research efforts; however, extensively adopted standards are still unavailable. In this paper, we present a generic model for electronic meeting control. Our model is based on the formal meeting protocol commonly known as the parliamentary procedure or Robert’s Rules of Order (RRO). Capturing the essential features of traditional RRO, we sug...

Online-community management is commonly presented as the facilitation of conversation and contributions, especially converting readers to contributors. However, the goal of many discussion communities is to produce a high-quality knowledge resource, whether to improve external task performance or to increase reputation and site traffic. What do moderation practices look like when the community ...

How to improve the quality of conversations in online communities has attracted considerable attention recently. Having engaged, urbane, and reactive online conversations has a critical effect on the social life of Internet users. In this study, we are particularly interested in identifying a post in a multi-party conversation that is unlikely to be further replied to, which therefore kills tha...