Social Comparison is important as it can be either encouraging or discouraging for the person who makes it. Although studies concerning social comparison in the classroom context abound, few deal with the relationship between the role of social comparison orientation and tendencies in academic achievement in a competition based educational context. Adopting a non- experimental ex-post facto des...

Comparison is an important task when visually exploring and analyzing data. We devised interaction techniques that assist in conducting comparison tasks for table-based and matrix-based visual representations. The basic idea is to allow users to dynamically create snapshots of parts of the visual representation. For the comparison of such snapshots, the user can (1) flexibly arrange them on the...

This study compares the handling of agreement and disagreement by speakers from two different cultural groups: London’s British West African community and its mainstream British white community. Using data from elicited conversations, we consider naturally-occurring agreements and disagreements at three different linguistic levels. Firstly, based on Pomerantz’s (1984) observations of turn-takin...