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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"turn-taking"”.
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Turn-Taking Behaviors in the Physics Classroom
… theorized by Kanter (1977) and investigates the turn-taking behaviors of women and men in classes that differ in their relative levels of gender representation. This study posed four hypotheses: That women will average less oral participation in the physics classroom than men, that more highly …
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Aspects of turn-taking in deaf-hearing conversation
… prosody plays a vital role in the exchange of turns in conversation, and it is often thought that interruptions constitute a breakdown in the turn-taking system. Previous research also reveals irregularities in the prosody of Deaf speech. However, the majority of investigations fail to consider …
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Adding backchannel and turn-taking behavior to a typing interface
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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The organization of turn-taking in fieldwork settings: A case study
<p>This linguistic study explores the role of turn-taking within 3 fieldwork sessions between a linguist and a native Mocho’ speaker, aiming to address who overlaps more frequently and whether overlapping speech is a cooperative or competitive resource throughout the exchanges. I questioned whether …
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Spanish and American turn-taking styles and the misinterpretation of each in cross-cultural conversations
Research on turn taking in English indicates that there are rules that Americans follow when organizing their conversations. Following these rules, consciously or subconsciously, helps ensure a good conversation because the rules are based on what Americans consider polite, cooperative and …
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The Effects and Feasibility of using Tiered Instruction to Increase Conversational Turn Taking for Preschoolers with and without Disabilities
… to increase the frequency of conversational turn taking (CTT) among preschoolers with and without disabilities in an inclusive setting. Three CTT interventions (Universal Design for Learning, Peer Mediated Instruction, and Milieu Teaching) were organized on a hierarchy of intensity and …
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Inferring Design Environment (IDE) : "(re) shaping a design pattern as a learning process"
… is a concept sketch that assimilates a dialog or turn-taking game onto a two dimensional digital canvas, which in turn helps designers learn about their learning processes. This turn-taking process eventually gives rise to meaningful expression through the use of a rule the Designer has made …
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Changing small group interaction through visual reflections of social behavior
… group of individual levels of participation and turn-taking behavior, the technology aims to augment the group's communication ability, by making it more aware of imbalances. A series of dynamic displays positioned peripherally to a discussion were developed and used by a variety of groups during …
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Australian English Rising Intonation: Frequency and Function During Talk-in-Interaction
… well-defined, and despite its proposed role in turn-taking, there have been no studies to date which have taken into account the use of the high-rise in spontaneous conversation, where we can best observe the dynamics of turn-taking at work (cf. Ford and Thompson 1996, Sacks et al. 1974). In …
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Collaborative Memory For Serial Order
… Some reconstructed the lists by alternating turns with their group members (turn-taking). Others were forced to reconstruct the lists from the first item-position to the last item-position in addition to taking turns with group members (restricted). Still, others were alloto complete the …
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Generation of non-verbal behavior for an embodied conversational character
… observed in human-human interactions, a study of turn-taking cues in a human-computer interaction, and previous work in creating animated conversational agents, I attempt to formulate a set of behaviors and appropriate times to produce these behaviors for a new conversational character, Rea.
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Prenatal alcohol exposure and the early neurodevelopmental outcomes of children in a South African birth cohort study
… 3); 4. a comparison of the conversational turn-taking between mothers and their alcohol exposed children compared to those between mothers and their unexposed children (Chapter 6 Manuscript 4). Methods: This thesis included four publications, three of which present data from the DCHS. …
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Gender Inequality in Thai Academia
… Southeast Asian concepts of kinship, patronage, turn-taking and seniority systems. Three data sources are used, university personnel records, self-administered surveys and the annual evaluation report. Results show that raises tend to be equitable and faculty are equally productive, regardless of …
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Interacting with personal fabrication devices
… that executed a program in one go before returning the result to the user. By decreasing the interaction unit to single requests, turn-taking systems such as the command line evolved, which provided users with feedback after every input. Finally, with the introduction of direct-manipulation …
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Maternal investment tactics in cooperative breeding systems
… group can theoretically be resolved using simple turn-taking rules, leading to efficient outcomes for all carers. To test whether such a rule is employed in nature, a later chapter analyses empirical provisioning data from the chestnut-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps), a cooperatively …
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Participation, collaboration and language use in English Foreign Language adult learning groups that share or do not share a common language besides English
… groups' where conversational techniques (such as turn-taking) were used in order to engage in an interactive and collabortive dialogue. As a result, learning, interaction and information exchange occurred more readily in 'cross language groups' than in 'common language groups'.
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A conversation-based framework for musical improvisation
… 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 framework written …
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Extending the dialogue : interactional and multimodal strategies in synchronous mobile mathematics tutoring on MXit
… over a short period. A quantitative analysis of turn-taking in tutoring interactions during February is used to identify the characteristic roles of tutors and learners; their strategies for controlling and directing dialogue; and the kinds of pragmatic moves that are used during the scaffolding …
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High Schoolers' Approaches to Learning Melodies by Ear
… learning chunk order; and (c) synchronous versus turn-taking. Descriptive results showed that participants preferred to learn melodies in one-, two-, four-, or eight-measure chunks, and that their use of time learning either in a synchronously or turn-taking approach had no relationship to their …
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