Driven by the motivation to enhance emotionally immersive experience of real-time messaging in 3D virtual world Second Life, we are proposing a conceptually novel approach to reinforcing (intensifying) own feelings and reproducing (simulating) the emotions felt by the partner through specially designed system, iFeel_IM!. In the paper we are describing the development of novel haptic devices (Ha...

The operational definition of interpersonal communication is “the ability of the provider to elicit and understand patient concerns, to explain healthcare issues and to engage in shared decision-making if desired.” Objective: To examine how well interpersonal communication is captured in validated instruments that evaluate primary healthcare from the patient’s perspective. Method: 645 adults wi...

This paper studies cooperation in multi-agent systems. In particular, we focus on the notion of relevance underlying cooperation. Given an agent who has some information need, we characterize pieces of information that are relevant to her. This characterization is done in a multi-modal logic. Finally, we give a formal de nition for cooperation.

Over time, our mode of remote communication has evolved from written letters to telephones, email, internet chat rooms, and video-conferences. Similarly, virtual environments that utilize digital representations of humans promise to further change the nature of remote interaction. virtual environments are systems which track verbal and nonverbal signals of multiple interactants and render those...

We introduce a new emotion classification task based on Leary’s Rose, a framework for interpersonal communication. We present a small dataset of 740 Dutch sentences, outline the annotation process and evaluate annotator agreement. We then evaluate the performance of several automatic classification systems when classifying individual sentences according to the four quadrants and the eight octan...

The decomposition of complex applications into modular units is an acknowledged design principle for creating robust systems and for enabling the flexible re-use of modules in new application contexts. Typically, component frameworks provide mechanisms and rules for developing software modules in the scope of a certain programming paradigm or programming language and a certain computing platfor...

We propose a theory of communicative interactions based on the idea that it is constitutive of interpersonal communication to create and manage a fragment of social reality. We define such a fragment in terms of joint commitments of the interactants, and analyze how these commitments are made in a conversation. We distinguish between three layers of joint commitments: those that regulate the em...

states or predispositions. Any particular behavioral episode can be characterized in a variety of ways at different levels of abstraction: "A Models of Interpersonal Communication page 32 punches B," or "A hurts B," or "A dislikes B." The most abstract way to characterize a behavior would be as evidence of a predisposition: "A is aggressive." Maass et al. found that negatively valent behaviors ...