OBJECTIVE A fully immersive, high-fidelity street-crossing simulator was used to examine the effects of texting on pedestrian street-crossing performance. BACKGROUND Research suggests that street-crossing performance is impaired when pedestrians engage in cell phone conversations. Less is known about the impact of texting on street-crossing performance. METHOD Thirty-two young adults comple...

AbstractThis research considered relevant to create understanding on the existence of diversity and tolerance, due racism Chinese as largest population both in US world have given a significant influence. The aim this is expose representation cultural values reflected through major character Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asian Novel. immigrant influenced culture society America. They might move other...

A fundamental property of language is that it can be used to refer to entities in the extra-linguistic physical context of a conversation in order to establish a joint focus of attention on a referent. Typological and psycholinguistic work across a wide range of languages has put forward at least two different theoretical views on demonstrative reference. Here we contrasted and tested these two...

Rapid development of information and communications technologies (ICT) has triggered profound changes in how people manage their social contacts in both informal and professional contexts. ICT mediated communication may seem limited in possibilities compared to face-to-face encounters, but research shows that puzzlingly often it can be just as effective and satisfactory. We posit that ICT users...

Conversations are a basic unit of analysis in studies of human interaction. These units are conventionally distinguished by reference to the set of ratified participants who take part, often by appeal to their physical proximity/orientation. We show that within such conversational units there are distinct dialogue contexts which are more fine-grained than this. We present experimental evidence ...

B on Labov & Waletzky’s (1) displacement method, Cariola (2) demonstrated that elicited dream narratives follow a homogenous structure of 1) Topic introduction, 2) Orientation, 3) Complication, 4) Evaluation, and 5) Coda. Topic introduction units can be defined as conversation turn sequences with which the interviewer or conversational partner may introduce the topic of the dream. In relation t...

As services become more loosely coupled and increasingly autonomous, heterogeneous distributed services should be able to discover and converse with each other dynamically, with or without human intervention. Current paradigms of service interaction require service developers to hardcode their logic to adhere strictly to pre-defined conversation policies. We propose here a mechanism for a Conve...

Conversation analysts have sometimes been taken to task for apparently choosing not to deal with the "context" of the conversational activities they examine (Cicourel, 1981). In Talking Culture Moerman (1988) describes a blend of ethnography and conversation analysis, and suggests that ethnography describes contextual data extrinsic to interaction while conversation analysis provides non-contex...

BACKGROUND Those attempting to implement changes in health care settings often find that intervention efforts do not progress as expected. Unexpected outcomes are often attributed to variation and/or error in implementation processes. We argue that some unanticipated variation in intervention outcomes arises because unexpected conversations emerge during intervention attempts. The purpose of th...