conclusions nursing and midwifery students did not significantly differ in terms of communication with patients with severe communication problems. most of the students had low or very low knowledge and skills in communication with patients with hearing impairment. however, they had better skills in communication with patient with speech problem. special workshops or training programs are recom...

BACKGROUND When we talk to one another face-to-face, body gestures accompany our speech. Motion tracking technology enables us to include body gestures in avatar-mediated communication, by mapping one's movements onto one's own 3D avatar in real time, so the avatar is self-animated. We conducted two experiments to investigate (a) whether head-mounted display virtual reality is useful for resear...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of classroom placement and mode of communication on speech intelligibility scores in children aged 8 to 9 years using multichannel cochlear implants. DESIGN Classroom placement (special education, partial mainstream, and full mainstream) and mode of communication (total communication and auditory-oral) reported via parental rating scales before and 4 times afte...

A framework of speech communication is presented in which natural spontaneous data and speech modelling are interrelated in a cyclic progession towards the goal of elucidating linguistic behaviour. Paralinguistic phenomena are treated as an integral part of a theory of speech communication. Data acquisition design has to adapt to the naturalness requirement.

Non-native listeners’ perception of speech has been shown to be more adversely affected by interference from background noise than native speakers. This study focused on effects of different levels of linguistic information on speech perception in noise. We examined roles of phonetic and contextual cues in sentence perception in babble noise by Chinese learners and native speakers of English. O...

The aims of this study are to investigate the use non-verbal communication in students’ speaking class and describe reasons at English Department, University Kuningan. participants were three selected students education department who took public subject fourth semester. employed a qualitative research through plying case design. To gain data needed, two techniques employed; observation intervi...

We inquire into different perspectives and patterns of problematizing online hate speech within the social sciences from a systems-theoretical perspective. Our results identify five research adopted by studies on issue: (1) systematic problems operationalizing (online) speech; (2) intentionalist actors their motives; (3) consequentialist victims (4) media affordances, infrastructures, strategie...

The number of cars provided with an in-car communication system has considerably increased during the past few years. Using a mobile phone whilst driving is a safety-critical task and can cause usability issues. Speech modality has been incorporated in order to allocate hands and eyes solely to the driving task speech. This paper discusses an investigation into in-car communication systems and ...