The Conversational Turn in Shakespeare

Turn-alignment using eye-gaze and speech in conversational interaction

Spoken interactions are known for accurate timing and alignment between interlocutors: turn-taking and topic flow are managed in a manner that provides conversational fluency and smooth progress of the task. This paper studies the relation between the interlocutors’ eye-gaze and spoken utterances, and describes our experiments on turn alignment. We conducted classification experiments by Suppor...

Fugue: A Computer Mediated Conversational System that Supports Turn Negotiation

Computer mediated communication (CMC) systems are providing new ways to communicate. Yet many text-based CMC systems do not represent the invisible, interactive practices, such as turnnegotiation, commonly found in face-to-face (FTF) conversations. Designing new text structures may help address these problems. To explore the effects of adding rhythmic, non-verbal cues to computermediated commun...

Shakespeare in the Weimar Republic

Triaging Shakespeare

Dear Ben, I just got the reviews back on my grant proposal for Hamlet, the new play I was telling you about. I applied to the National Institutes of Health in America this time—the RFA said they’re interested in creative new ideas and all that rot but they’re just as conservative as here in England. It wasn’t even discussed! I’ll wager it was those scoundrels Beaumont and Fletcher that sank it....

Believing in Shakespeare : Faith and Doubt on the Elizabethan Stage Deutsche Shakespeare - Gesellschaft