Interactional quality has been shown to enhance learning during book reading and play, but has not been examined during touch screen use. Learning to apply knowledge from a touch screen is complex for infants because it involves transfer of learning between a two-dimensional (2D) screen and three-dimensional (3D) object in the physical world. This study uses a touch screen procedure to examine ...

I n the paper, we propose a vision-based system for adaptively inferring the interactional intention of a person coming close to a robot, which plays an important role i n the succeeding stage of human/robot cooperative operations typically i n production lines. It is naturally supposed that the interactional intention of a person induces her action of approaching to the robot and touchiny it. ...

background and objectives: motivated employees are probably the most valuable resource of the contemporary organizations. evidence shows the significant impact of perceived organizational justice on the attitudes of employees, including their trust. to further investigate the issue in the context of health organizations, this study aimed to explore the relationship between perceived organizatio...

This study documents change over time and across proficiency levels in French second-language (L2) speakers’ practices for initiating complaints. Prior research has shown that speakers typically initiate complaints a stepwise manner indexes the contingent, moral, delicate nature of activity. Although elementary my data often launch complaint sequences straightforward way, they sometimes embodie...

What happens when students cannot answer teachers’ questions in oral examinations? This study investigates how teachers manage students’ insufficient answers disciplinary competence exams (DOCEs) the secondary school context. Using conversation analysis, we show that either pursue an by reformulating it and providing more topic information or abandon original question move on to a new sequence ...

This paper describes an experiment to explore the effects of the TENCompetence infrastructure for supporting lifelong competence development which is now in development. This infrastructure provides structured, multi-leveled access to learning materials, based upon competences. People can follow their own learning path, supported by a listing of competences and their components, by competence d...

Within the TENCompetence project we aim to develop and integrate models and tools into an open source infrastructure for the creation, storage and exchange of learning objects, suitable knowledge resources as well as learning experiences. This contribution analyzes the potential of social software tools for providing part of the required functionality, as well as some challenges involved.

In group-to-group videoconferencing (VC), social actions are coordinated between participants in the physical and online environment, which raises practical problem of how to manage interactional space a collaborative inclusive manner. This can be particularly challenging for less experienced (i.e., novice) users VC. The present study uses multimodal conversation analysis (CA) investigate unive...