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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"text chat"”.
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Students' perceptions of the use of peer-to-peer ESL text chat: An introductory study
… prepared for the demands of university work. Text chat has been studied by some scholars as a means of assisting ESL students to write more effectively. However, greater understanding is needed of the affective experiences and perceptions of students toward peer-to-peer ESL text chat. That is …
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Tools and Techniques for Effective Distributed Requirements Engineering: An Empirical Study
… customers to rely upon mediums such as email and text chat that are very good at reducing social distance, but are less rich in informational content.
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The Effects of Instructor Immediacy in Online Learning Environments
… environments: (a) video and audio with text chat and (b) audio with text chat. Further, this study sought to identify the relationship between perceived instructor immediacy and perceived social presence within the context of the different computer conferencing environments. An ancillary …
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Coterie : a visualization of the conversational dynamics within IRC
… are still present in our interactions online in text chat; they are merely encoded in the textual interactions. This thesis presents Coterie, a visualization of the conversational dynamics of an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel. Through Coterie, viewers can see the social patterns that underlie …
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Raconteur : intelligent assistance for conversational storytelling with media libraries
… performs natural language processing on a text chat between two users and recommends appropriate media items from the annotated library, each file with one or a few sentences in unrestricted English. A large commonsense knowledge base and a novel commonsense inference technique are used to …
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An Experimental Study of Instructor Immediacy in the Wimba Virtual Classroom
… verbal and nonverbal immediacy cues, and the context of the communication. The immediacy component of social presence is most often defined as perceived psychological closeness which is created in part by nonverbal cues (e.g., smiling and using gestures) and verbal cues (e.g., utilizing humor and …
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The influence of cultural background on teaching and learning in synchronous online sessions
… and more popular, providing a multi-media context for synchronous teaching and learning at universities world-wide. This dissertation investigates the impact of cultural background on teaching and learning in synchronous virtual classrooms from the perspective of teachers at universities. …
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A formative evaluation of a technology-mediated alternative to traditional study abroad
… and interact in real time through the audio or text chat. Evaluation data was compiled from multiple sources including an anonymous student survey, instructor interviews, session recordings, financial budgets, and online facilitator observations in order to triangulate and evaluate the …
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A conversation centric approach to understanding and supporting the coordination of social group-activities
… of communication tools available to us such as, text messaging, Skype, email, twitter, Facebook, instant messaging, GroupMe, WhatsApp, Snapchat, etc., many people still routinely find coordinating activities with our friends to be a very frustrating experience. Everyone, has at least once, …