German Activity in Oriental Explorations

Self-repairs in German children's peer interaction - initial explorations

Forty-nine self-repairs were extracted from a corpus of conversational speech of ten German children (mean age 5;1) with peers. The repairs were analysed using [1]’s classification and compared with his adult data. Children produced fewer appropriateness repairs than adults, but more covert repairs and more phonetic repairs. Like adults, children had a preference to interrupt themselves within-...

Rethinking Philosophy in an Oriental Way

Facial activity of attitudinal speech in German

The current study is a continuation of previous work on how attitudes are expressed in speech. Generally, we found that the availability of facial expression (together with speech) leads to a higher plausibility of an expressed attitude. Therefore, a further analysis of facial cues in the expression of attitudinal states appears useful. For this purpose, we selected a subset of sixteen attitude...

Explorations in AlphaWorld

In this paper I will examine the geography of one particular type of virtual reality virtual worlds. They are publicly available on the Internet and are designed for social interaction in real-time. The two key elements of these systems that move them beyond conventional computer-mediated communication channels into the realm of virtual reality are the shared graphical environment in which inte...

Explorations in Evolutionary Visualisation

A real-valued evolutionary optimisation scenario affords a unique opportunity to render visually explicit the “landscape” metaphor in the concept of fitness landscape.