We study whether a virtual agent that delivers humor through verbal behavior can affect an individual's proxemic behavior towards the agent. Participants interacted with a virtual agent through natural language and, in a separate task, performed an embodied interpersonal interaction task in a virtual environment. The study used minimum distance as the dependent measure. Humor generated by the v...

In this study, children's perceptions of peace were examined through drawings and unstructured interviews. Participants consisted 22 students aged 11-12 studying at Kepler Gymnasium, a public school in Karlsruhe / Pforzheim. The study was designed with an art-based interview from research qualitative methods. data analyzed by the semiotic analysis content meaning most perceived as positive peac...

The paralinguistic features, however this conference classifies the “Paralinguistic analysis” as Speaker identification, Keyword/topic spotting, and Language identification, include emotional aspects of voice, which is focused recently on interpersonal communications. Study starts from description and statistics of those features. Among many acoustic characteristics, we investigated features re...

In this study, the researcher chose three different vocabulary techniques (Visual Representation, Textual Enhancement, and Glossing) and compared them with traditional method of teaching vocabulary. 80 advanced EFL Learners were assigned as four intact groups (three experimental and one control group) through using a proficiency test and a vocabulary test as a pre-test. In the visual group, stu...

OBJECTIVE To examine concordance between responses to patient experience survey items evaluating doctors' interpersonal skills, and subsequent patient interview accounts of their experiences of care. DESIGN Mixed methods study integrating data from patient questionnaires completed immediately after a video-recorded face-to-face consultation with a general practitioner (GP) and subsequent inte...

" By William Gibson. Martin Seeker 6? Warburg Ltd. 15/-. Perhaps it is professional prejudice, but psychiatric interviews in novels are seldom convincing and The Cobweb is not an exception. The theme, however, need not have been set in a psychiatric hospital. Almost any setting could have been used, and in itself it is interesting and exciting. The book gives a lively account of interpersonal t...

This study examined hospital-based nurses’ experiences of structurational divergence. I used a semi-structured narrative approach to interview 10 hospital-based nurses and data was analyzed using phenomenological methods. This resulted in the identification of the following three themes, which capture instances of structurational divergence and resulting interpersonal, intrapersonal, and organi...

We propose a system which is based on fuzzy c-means clustering and automatically organizes a collection of music files according to musical surface characteristics (e.g., zero crossings, short-time energy, etc.) and tempo. Our system is complemented by semantic metadata which offers the user the ability to check the clustering result, correct existing textual meta-information (such as genre and...

The article touches upon different aspects of promise – as a speech act, means communication. theme is analysed in its relation to various areas philosophical studies: the problem subject’s identity, society system interpersonal interactions, performative utterances and etc. methodological basis includes primarily act theory developed by J. Austin Searle’s speech-act theory, genetically related...