Genuine Criticism (GC) is an evaluative expression of annoyance with an attribute in the interlocutor, whose realization may threaten the positive image of both interlocutors. The current study investigates facework and politeness in performing GCsin different contexts and for interlocutors with low social distance and high status in terms of GC realization strategies and mitigation devices tha...

In an experiment on dyadic social interaction, we invited participants to verbal interactions in cooperative, competitive, and 'fun task' conditions. We focused on the link between interactants' affectivity and their nonverbal synchrony, and explored which further variables contributed to affectivity: interactants' personality traits, sex, and the prescribed interaction tasks. Nonverbal synchro...

This presentation addresses the question: how and why can a pair of teacher-student interactants co-create a story? In analyzing the discourse data taken while interactants try to achieve the task of making a coherent story by arranging cards, the ‘ba (filed)’ theory is employed. ‘Ba’ based approach is an innovating frame of thinking device that assumes 1) inside perspective of the subject, 2) ...

Computer-mediated communication systems known as collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) allow geographically separated individuals to interact verbally and nonverbally in a shared virtual space in real time. We discuss a CVE-based research paradigm that transforms (i.e., filters and modifies) nonverbal behaviors during social interaction. Because the technology underlying CVEs allows a strat...

We explored the relationship between interactants’ social anxiety and the interactional fidelity of virtual humans. We specifically addressed whether the contingent non-verbal feedback of virtual humans affects the association between interactants’ social anxiety and their verbal self-disclosure. This subject was investigated across three experimental conditions where participants interacted wi...

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...

Synchrony is claimed by psychology as a crucial parameter of any social interaction. In dialog interactions, the synchrony between non-verbal behaviours of interactants is claimed to account for the quality of the interaction: to give to human a feeling of natural interaction, an agent must be able to synchronise on appropriate time. The synchronisation occurring during non-verbal iteractions h...

The contributions from Biacore technology continue to have a widening impact on all aspects of the drug discovery process in today’s pharmaceutical industry. As biosensor technology became a practical reality in the laboratory during the early 1990s, it was readily accepted by the scientific community as a powerful analytical technique for evaluating the kinetic parameters of molecular interact...

In cross-cultural interaction in medical settings, there is great potential for mtscommunication This potential is increased when the language proficiency of one of the interactants is low In the data presented here of such interaction, however, the instances of miscommumcation are quickly resolved and communication proceeds Three sources of communicative success are suggested. Most important i...

Previous research in the field of nonverbal behaviour and communication has neglected a possible link between simple leg and foot posture and movement (or bipedic gesture) and the expression of attitudes and emotions. The present investigation explored this link in two studies; Study 1 employed analysis of a corpus that consisted of video recordings of first encounter dyadic interaction alongsi...