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...

Gordon Pask developed not only a Conversation Theory, but also a (less well-known) Interaction of Actors Theory, partly in response to demands during the time he worked in Amsterdam. The paper aims to clarify how this Theory intended to minimise the effcts of use on scientific results, while maximimising the help such results to improve on actions. This would facilitate empirical study of what ...

Introduction In this paper, we discuss how a discourse agent can manage multiple discourse goals using dynamic constraint optimization. We discuss turn-taking agents, which are agents that know how to take turns in dynamic, conversational settings. Conversation constrains an agent’s behaviour in a number of ways; for example, a conversational agent must act quickly to avoid long pauses, and it ...

This paper investigates the actions and practices for connected discourse in English conversation. Three university students met weekly 94 weeks to practice speaking were video recorded. Each participant made a 10 min presentation about topic of interest then three participants had Using ethnomethodological conversation analysis (CA), we examined how moved from an orientation one type speech ex...

INTRODUCTION The inefficacy of clinical skill education during the clerkship has been reported in several studies. The present study was conducted to evaluate the competency of medical students in performing several clinical skills through an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), aiming to evaluate the quality of the existing curriculum in the clerkship phase. MATERIAL AND METHODS...

Using Past Speaker Behavior to Better Predict Turn Transitions Tomer M. Sagie Meshorer Master of Science Center for Spoken Language Understanding within the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine June 2017 Thesis Advisor: Prof. Peter A. Heeman Conversations are at the core of everyday social interactions. The interactions between conversants are preformed within the realm of a so...

Ongoing inquiry in communication technology research includes the questions of whether and how users adapt communication to the relatively restricted codes provided by text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC). This study proposes that adaptations may be affected by the level of simultaneity in messaging that CMC systems afford users. This suggestion is examined through an analysis of th...