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Showing 1 to 20 of 2026 for “"conversation"”.
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Conversation Pieces: The Role of Products in Facilitating Conversation
… need, but it is not always easy to initiate conversations with potential relationship partners. Seven studies show the role that conversation pieces, or products that elicit questions and comments from others, can play in helping consumers to achieve their social goals. Studies 1 and 2 …
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Coordination in conversation
… with a contextualist approach to the dynamics of conversation. The key to doing so is to take the relation in question to be determined by the interlocutors' prospective common attitudes. Chapter 3 explores the contribution of 'must'. Assertions of -Must p-1 and assertions of p alone seem to have …
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Avatar augmented online conversation
… one another. Building technology that mediates conversation presents a number of challenging research and design questions. Apart from the fundamental issue of what exactly gets mediated, two of the more crucial questions are how the person being mediated interacts with the mediating layer and …
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Complaint Talk in Korean Conversation
The analysis of complaints in this study suggests pedagogical implications for second/foreign language teaching. CA pays close attention to the details of interaction such as the sequencing of actions and the composition and construction of turns. Therefore, the CA analysis in this study provides …
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SCENE: Structural Conversation Evolution Network
… and research has focused on the content of the conversation.The main research question has been, ‘what do people talk about?’ focusing on topic extraction and topic modeling. While content is clearly critical for many real-world applications, we have largely ignored identifying ‘how’ people …
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Heavenly conversation in cosmic language
This study focuses on the centrality of the Logos theme in the prologue of the Fourth Gospel. The study demonstrates that the author of John's Gospel is keen to present to his audience the uniqueness of the Word which became 'umuntu' or 'flesh'. Apparently, the author of the Gospel is in …
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Electric conversation of Porsche 914
With energy and environmental concerns becoming increasingly greater issues, electric vehicles are a promising alternative to internal combustion engine vehicles. More research and interest must be focused on battery technology and electric vehicles to make this a viable solution for the future of …
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Modeling trust in human conversation
… learn to trust each other when they have a conversation. The model I have created represents people as sets of self-organizing maps; each has a map to represent his own beliefs, and a map to represent what he thinks of another person. Beliefs are in this model restricted to likes and …
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Steiner's Shoah : a conversation in silence
This study explores George Steiner's approach to the historical and literary representation of the Shoah. Steiner's conception of human language as a vibrant living organism, the prime carrier of both civilization and its opposite--nihilism, is foundational to his thought on Holocaust …
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Social mirrors: visualization as conversation feedback
… seen and interpreted. We use cues to coordinate conversation, determine speaker, and sense the mood of a group. However, online social spaces have expanded the ways in which we interact with others. Due to the nature of online communication, interactions persist in a manner that allows us to …
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Breaking through the binary, shifting the conversation: A multi-perspective conversation on gay marriage and queer equality
The dominant conversation of gay marriage legalization is currently centered on a limited "for or against" debate which places the Queer community and its allies in favor of legalization and everyone else in opposition. This limited "movement/countermovement" dynamic obscures and denies the …
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Forms and functions of the French discourse particle hein in French mundane conversation: a conversation analysis perspective
… native speakers. This study was conducted using Conversation Analysis (CA) as methodology. The data for this study consist of four different sets of videotaped and audio-taped, non-elicited mundane conversation, yielding a total of 6 hours of conversation. Speakers included six family members and …
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Conversation analysis in interactive computer system design
… and human-computer interaction. Prospectively, conversation analysis provides the resources for design of more natural interactive systems,and represents the possibility of design guidance which avoids the problems inherent in current design guidelines. The methods and findings of conversation …
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Exploring knowledge models with simulated tutorial conversation
… concept of a mental model. and applies Pask's conversation theory. The theoretical model was then tested through the development of a simulation of tutoring, the Virtual Tutee System , that casts the real student user into the role of tutor, while the tutee resides within the computer …
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Mechanisms of conversation: audience design and memory
It is well established that conversational partners jointly establish brief labels for repeatedly mentioned entities. When speaking to a new partner who is unfamiliar with the labels, speakers use longer expressions to facilitate understanding. How this process of audience design scales up to …
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A conversation-based framework for musical improvisation
… model for structured collaboration based on conversational turn-taking. According to the model, collaboration participants share both a representation of the collaboration's structure and the algorithms governing navigation through that structure. ImprovisationBuilder, an object-oriented …
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Enhancing teacher growth through conversation: an analysis of colleague conversation during the planning and teaching of a reading assessment course
… ethnographic study explores the nature of the conversations between two colleagues, a more experienced and a less experienced university professor, during the planning sessions, class meetings, and debriefings of a reading assessment course. The study describes what happened during the planning …
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