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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Tone of voice"”.
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Learning Internet from tone of voice
The ability to discern information from the tone of voice that a person uses is an important part of social interactions. Synthetic characters that can interact naturally with humans could take advantage of this information if they could discern it. I propose that a synthetic character with a …
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Children’s recognition of emotional tone-of-voice
… literature. This thesis explored if the quality of stimuli used in assessing recognition (of anger, fear, happiness, sadness, pleasant-surprise, and neutrality) could meaningfully influence (8-to-11-year-old) children’s recognition rates. For this purpose, high-quality stimuli were created, …
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It’s how you said it and what I heard: a comparison of motivational and emotional tone of voice
… 2013), but until now no direct comparison of these types of prosody has been available. Building on the new motivational prosody literature (e.g., Weinstein, Zougkou & Paulmann, 2014; 2018), this series of studies was the first to explore the differences and similarities between these forms …
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17 ways to say yes, exploring tone of voice in augmentative communication and designing new interactions with speech synthesis
For people without speech, voice output communication aids are an assistive technology––but can also be restrictive: whilst Text-To-Speech synthesis can say anything, it affords little choice of how this is spoken. An absence of nuanced tone of voice can inhibit social interaction.<br/><br/>This …
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Emotion Perception in Asperger's Syndrome and High-functioning Autism: The Importance of Diagnostic Criteria and Cue Intensity
… social dysfunction. Deficits in the perception of nonverbal cues of emotion may be related to this social impairment. Research has indicated that children with autism are limited in their emotion perception abilities, but studies that have addressed this issue with individuals with AS or …
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Not Angry but Angy: The Rhetorical Effects of Non-Standard Language in Memes
<p>The use of non-standard language on the internet has long been a topic of controversy, as some believe its prevalence indicates carelessness or a lack of intelligence in the (mostly) younger generations who use it. Non-standard language can refer to spelling or grammar that deviates from …
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Social signaling in decision making
Nonverbal communication is an important and often underestimated instrument in social interactions. The paralinguistic elements of speech, which are described in common speech as "tone of voice", are one channel of the nonverbal communication. They, together with conversational dynamics, are a very …
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Building rapport in mediation: A study of the application of intercultural competencies in a Midwestern mediation center
… cultures interact on a daily basis on a number of occasions. During these intercultural encounters, conflicts often arise. Intercessors are needed to help people navigate these types of disagreements. Mediators are considered some of these peacekeepers. This thesis engaged with mediators at a …
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The Effects of Visual and Verbal Cues in Multimedia Instruction
Various forms of presenting content via computer differ in the number and quality of visual and verbal cues. Many of these cues such as eye contact, tone of voice, appearance, facial expressions, proximity, and gestures have been found to be beneficial to the learning process. This study seeks to …
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Emotional Prosody Communication In Long-Term Abstained Alcoholics
… deficits per se continue even after a period of long-term abstinence. In Study one, 15 dry abstained alcoholics (AA) and 15 aged/educational matched healthy controls were asked to produce sentences in the six basic emotions plus neutral whilst being recorded. Results demonstrated that at an …
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Time's inexorability: a performance study of Gerald Finzi's Earth and air and rain
… Hugo Wolf. To one familiar with the music of both Wolf and Finzi, such a statement understandably elicits pause and must be qualified by the context in which the characterization was made. Wolf's musical compositions are considerably more complex and broader in scope than those of Gerald …
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The Phenomenology of Role Play: Are Children “Thinking-As-If” or “Behaving-As-If”?
… role play, they do things such as change their tone of voice or take on the character’s emotions or needs. These behaviours make it appear as though children adopt the mental perspective of the character they are pretending to be, which has led some researchers to argue that children …
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Investigating the Role of Working Memory on Emotion Recognition Accuracy in Emerging Adults
… nonverbal cues like facial expressions and tone of voice. Vocal emotion recognition is more challenging and matures later than facial recognition. However, research often uses static facial expressions and dynamic vocal expressions, leading to biased comparisons. The disparity between vocal …
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The Auditory Affective Verbal Learning test: peripheral arousal correlates and implications for the lateralized priming of dichotic prosody identification
Few tests are available for the investigation of emotional learning. The purpose of the present study was to create and provide initial data on the utility of affective list alternatives for the well known Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVL). Results suggest that all lists (positive, negative, …
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Teaching Texting on a Smart Phone to Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
… ( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -5th edition, APA, 2013). These deficits are significantly pronounced when individuals with ASD attempt to engage in conversations. Due to advances in technology, children and adolescents are now conversing through computer …
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The choreography of the classroom: performance and embodiment in teaching
… through which teachers communicate. The topic of embodiment has increasingly been addressed in the literature on Education and more broadly in the Social Sciences, however there are few accounts of what embodiment looks like in actual teaching; how it enhances communication of the curriculum, …