Books as Input for Interaction and Communicative Activities

Communicative Interaction and Qualitative Reasoning

The idea of wanting to develop such an inferior physics has been condemned by physicists and experts from other disciplines. They considered it naive, and not very serious. A third problem originates from research on education. There was a time that many of us thought that it was feasible to construct artificial artefacts that would be able to replace human teachers, so called intelligent tutor...

Communicative Triad as a Structural Element of Language Interaction

Researches on dialogue natural-language in te r a c t i o n w i t h i n t e l l e c t u a l " h u m a n c o m p u t e r " s y s t e m s a r e b a s e d on m o d e l s o f l a n g u a g e " h u m a n t o h u m a n " i n t e r a c t i o n , t h e s e m o d e l s r e p r e s e n t i n g d e s c r i p t i o n s o f c o m m u n i c a t i o n l a w s . An a s p e c t o f d e v e l o p i n g l a n g u...

Learners’ Engagement in Meaning Negotiation and Classroom Interaction as a Function of Their Perceptions of Teachers’ Instructional Communicative Behaviors

A significant share of classroom interaction occurs between teachers and language learners. Therefore, the individual characteristics of teachers could play facilitative or impeding roles thus encouraging or discouraging learners from getting engaged in interaction and meaning negotiation attempts when interacting with their teachers. Surprisingly however, this area has attracted scant attentio...

Surface Electromyography as a Control Input for Human-System Interaction

Information Behaviors of Children and Adolescents’ Interaction with Print and Digital Books

Background and Aim: This research is dedicated to assessing information behaviors of children and adolescents’ interaction with print and digital books. To reach this goal, digital books of Iranian virtual library for children and teenagers, have been used as sources of research. The purpose is assessing the influence of participants’ gender, age and graphical effects of books, with their prefe...