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Showing 1 to 20 of 2044 for “"Face-to-Face"”.
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Listening and speaking strategies in face-to-face interactions
… postural adjustments, such as turning one’s head to optimize the listening experience. In addition, listeners can also rely on social support from the speaker, as signalling their difficulty in understanding, can prompt clarifications and reformulations. In this thesis, I examine listening as a …
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Affect reflection technology in face-to-face service encounters
… between a banking service provider and customer. We conduct experiments in which service providers manipulate their facial expressions while interacting with customers in one of three conditions: In the neutral condition the banker tried to maintain a neutral facial expression; in the …
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Communication and Trust in Virtual and Face-to-Face Teams
… by relying on technology-mediated communication to counteract geographic disparities. Rapid advances in technology have led to the near-ubiquity of VTs within modern organizations, but gaps in existing research designs afflict extant empirical VT research. This experiment evaluates the constructs …
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Social evolution : opinions and behaviors in face-to-face networks
Exposure to new ideas and opinions, and their diffusion within social networks, are important questions in education, business, and government. However until recently there has been no method to automatically capture fine-grained face-to-face interactions between people, to better model the …
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Investigation, Analysis, and Modeling of Longwall Face-to-Face Transfers
This dissertation reports on research efforts to investigate, analyze, and model longwall face-to-face transfers through the use of operations research techniques. The purpose is to reduce overall transfer time and the variation of transfer times among operations within the U. S. longwall industry. …
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Face to Face: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Victim-Offender Mediation
Restorative justice (RJ) practices have become increasingly accepted as viable alternatives to the retributive justice system in Canada and the world as a whole. RJ has been appropriated from Indigenous knowledge, which is important to recognize. One example of RJ in our present colonial system is …
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The Influence of Online Teaching on Face -to -Face Teaching Practices
… teaching and learning, it is known that instructors who have taught fully online courses have acquired new skills and have had the opportunity to implement novel pedagogical practices in the online environment. However, it is unclear if direct exposure to fully online teaching helps in the …
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Folk computing : designing technology to support face-to-face community building
… members do not share enough common ground to support the kinds of conversations that help build it. "Folk Computing" technology is designed to help build community in informal, face-to-face settings by giving users a playful way of revealing shared assumptions and interests. Drawing on the …
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Micro-Coordination: Looking into the details of face-to-face coordination
… most fundamental aspects of being human. The key to sociality is coordination, that is, the bringing of people "into a common action, movement or condition" [134]. Coordination is, at base, how social creatures get social things done in the world. Being social creatures, we engage in highly …
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A Comparison of Online and Face-to-Face Achievement in Physical Science
… analysis of learning outcomes in both online and face-to-face grades 9-12 physical science courses. Archived data from a single school system were used for a comparative analysis of learning outcomes in high school physical science between students enrolled in online classes and students enrolled …
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Characteristics of Face-to-Face Communications in Agriculture Marketing and Customer Service
… evolve, it is important for business leaders to not only follow the trends, but to be data-driven and make calculated decisions that are beneficial for their businesses. In this qualitative study, the researcher sought to describe how Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation used face-to-face and …
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An implementation of face-to-face grounding in an embodied conversational agent
When people have a face-to-face conversation, they don't just spout information blindly-they work to make sure that both participants understand what has been said. This process of ensuring that what has been said is added to the common ground of the conversation is called grounding. This thesis …
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Agreement and Group Attraction in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Group Discussions
Topics within small-group communication have been explored in many contexts, such as work group, organizational meeting, or online network. This area of discipline is considered crucial because this type of communication assimilates interpersonal relations within a social setting. Two elements that …
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Face-to-face interactions and the use of gaze in autism spectrum disorders
… have indicated a reduced number of fixations towards the eyes, in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This has been thought to contribute to wider social and emotional difficulties. However, it is unclear whether the reported deficits in gaze can be generalised to real-world interactions. Method: …
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A Comparison of Outcome Variables in Psychotherapy: Distance Technology Versus Face -to -Face
… through only one mode of communication, face-to-face, two-way audio, or two-way video. Outcome difference scores were derived from pre and post measurements on the Brief Symptom Inventory (Derogatis & Spencer, 1982), Target Complaints (Battle, et al., 1966), and the Global Assessment …
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Social Play: An Interactional Analysis of Play in Face-to-Face Social Interaction
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:34:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8017975.pdf: 9966784 bytes, checksum: 5a189460396d5c816692e4e8bb6a41d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1980
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An investigation of U.S. Army instructors providing feedback face-to-face and online
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Face to Face: Does Residence Hall Design Make a Difference in Student Interaction?
… long been valued by higher education administrators (Glynn, Sauer, & Miller, 2003). Persistence rates are significantly impacted by student interaction (Tinto, 1975). The environment can have a major influence on how students interact with one another (Lewin, 1936). One way in which the …
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A Comparison Of Traditional Face-To-Face And Hybrid Pediatrics and Obstetrical Nursing Courses
… of curriculum. As schools of nursing are faced with mandates to increase enrollment to meet the demands of the nursing shortage with limited resources (financial and human capital) some institutions are offering complete programs online while others are gradually integrating this …
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Face to Face: English Uses and Understanding of the Beard in Early Virginian Contacts
Many historians agree that categories of human division underwent a drastic change due to European New World encounters. The shift from religious divisions to ones based on ethnicity and skin color gradually developed in early modern Europe. Hence, before natives became "red," and Europeans "white" …
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