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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"face-to-face interaction"”.
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Face -to -Face Interaction in the Multilingual Workplace: Social and Political Aspects of Language Use in Montreal
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
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Co-ordination of speech and gesture in sequence and time: Phonetic and non-verbal detail in face-to-face interaction
This thesis explores interactional processes during and between turns of talk, and how speakers and hearers accommodate each other in this process, using particular phonetic and non-verbal resources. It aims to pin down some of the interactional background work necessary to maintain coherence …
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The Cultural Adaptation of Internet Dating: Attitudes towards Online Relationship Formation
… scenarios are manipulated by the conditions of face-to-face interaction, presence of mutual acquaintance, and use of internet technology. Measures of legitimacy, predicted longevity, and social perception test for changes in attitudes of the varied ways in which a hypothetical couple meets. One …
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Essays on social networks and information worker productivity by Lynn Wu.
… worker productivity. The work is divided into three essays based on tracking detailed communication patterns of information workers in the high-tech industry. Essay 1: "Social Network Effects on Performance and Layoffs: Evidence from the Adoption of a Social Networking Tool." By studying the …
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Communication technology use and well-being: does less screen time lead to greater happiness?
… technology use have been studied with contradictory findings. Some research has shown that engagement with this technology can reduce face-to-face interaction, which threatens subjective well-being. Other studies have shown that the right combination of personality traits and the amount and type …
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Remote management: traditional leadership behaviors in a contemporary work environment
Today the geographic distance between workers is increasing. The purpose of this study was to investigate the distributed work environment by specifically focusing on leader behavior and its impact on subordinate outcomes. This study asked if the traditional core set of leadership behaviors is …
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USE OF UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION THEORY TO EXAMINE EMOTICONS AND OTHER CHAT ROOM TOOLS’ FACILITATION OF AFFILIATIVE NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
… and constructs called smileys or emoticons to adapt affiliative, physical cues for expression during chat rooms. The effectiveness of such textual constructs has been questioned. Past studies have only noted that the media of face-to-face and computer-mediated communication are, in fact, …
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Interpersonales Vertrauen im deutschen Versicherungsvertrieb - eine empirische Analyse der Kundenerwartungen zum Verhalten der Versicherungsvertreter in der Face-to-Face-Interaktion
… research lies on the empirical analysis of customer expectations on the behaviour of tied insurance intermediaries in the face to face interaction. Based on scientific literature, the importance of this interaction in insurance distribution is highlighted by presenting it as an essential part …
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Face-Work Within Blogs: The Use and Modification of Real World Rituals Within a Virtual Setting
In his Essay "On Face-Work" Erving Goffman identifies the rules for a number of face-to-face interaction rituals. Among these rituals are two ways of correcting participants within an interaction. The first correction ritual, the interchange, allows offending interactants a chance to save face. …
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Understanding the link between changes in social support and changes in outcomes with the sociometric badge
The goal of this thesis is to show that social support created through face-to-face interaction is a driving factor in a number of important outcomes. Through a series of studies we show that social support, operationalized using face-to-face network constraint (information clearing), is positively …
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A Study of the Relationship Between Loneliness and Internet Use Among University Students
… the link. More analysis in this area is needed to help clinicians, parents, college students, school counselors, and educators better understand the effects of the Internet on college-age students. This study attempts to expand understanding of the conflictual relationship that exists between …
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'It's a metrosexual thing': a discourse analytical examination of masculinities
… on men and masculinities purports challenges to the dominance of ‘hegemonic’ or idealised dominant masculine scripts (Connell, 1995). Men’s increasing consumption of image enhancement products and especially facial cosmetics – aspects of so-called ‘metrosexuality’ (Simpson, 1994, 2002) – …
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Effects of maternal sleep deprivation on maternal sensitivity and contingent responsiveness
… adults' behavior, such as mood, cognition, and motor performance. One population that is subject to sleep deprivation and the accompanying consequences are parents of young infants. The present study explored how sleep deprivation, resulting from infant night awakening, affects the face-to-face …
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CollectiveIdentity.org: Collective Identity in Online and Offline Feminist Activist Groups
… a concept that is used in social movement theory to understand why people are motivated to participate in social movements and social movement groups. Collective identity is a social-psychological process that links the individual to the group through a series of group interactions that revolve …
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Patient Safety As An Interactional Achievement: Conversational Analysis In The Trauma Center Of An Inner City Hospital
… apply the methodology of Conversational Analysis to highlight the informal communication of an emergency room work group with the objective of discovering recurrent patterns of interaction and the inherent relational work necessary to accomplish the safe medical care of patients in a Trauma Code …
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Taking a pedagogical turn: What happens when the student /teacher conference moves to the center of the basic writing course
… in light of the particular institutional history of Florida International University, with special emphasis on the roles of space, time, and face-to-face interaction in the teaching of writing to a richly diverse student body.</p><p>Support for the course redesign is adduced from the work of …
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Effects of Identity and Competency-Based Rejection and Acceptance on Online versus Face to Face Reaffiliation Preferences in Adults
… social animals, resulting in notable sensitivity to experiences of acceptance and rejection. This study extends existing research by considering whether rejection or acceptance based on identity uniquely influences reaffiliation interests. Participants recalled either an inclusionary or …
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The development of conversational and communication skills
… process and outcome in two communication media: face-to-face interaction and audio-only interaction. Communicative outcome is objectively measured by assessing accuracy of performance of communication tasks. A multi-level approach to the assessment of communicative process is taken. Non-verbal …
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What difference does a robot make? managing ambiguity in distributed knowledge work
What difference does robotic telepresence make to the management of ambiguity in distributed knowledge work? We examined this question in a post-surgical intensive care where remote medical workers struggled to coordinate their work in the face of ambiguities related to their extremely sick …
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