A central mission of writing centers is to help writers in all disciplines, at all levels of proficiency, learn how to improve their writing skills. The primary tool for achieving this goal is the writing conference, in which a writer receives personal attention from a trained tutor who works with the writer on a specific piece of writing. Conferences, as Kenneth Bruffee suggested in his semina...

The paper discusses the problems to be tackled while designing conversation schemes for concurrent object oriented languages (COOLs). Some approaches to solving these problems and to using conversations in COOLs in the most appropriate ways are proposed. The most relevant characteristics of these languages with respect to conversation scheme design are outlined. The paper attempts to define all...

During the course of this paper we intend to explore some possibilities that relate to ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, reflexive practice and practitioner based research. We intend to explore the way in which conversation analysis may facilitate some objectives and goals of reflexive practice and practitioner based research within professional practice. In order to fulfil this objectiv...

Business Process Integration and Automation (BPIA) has emerged as an important aspect of the enterprise computing landscape. Intra-enterprise application integration (EAI) as well as the inter enterprise integration (B2B) are increasingly being performed in the context of business processes. The integration scenarios typically involve distributed systems that are autonomous to some degree. From...

The project Vad gör tal till samtal? (What turns speech into conversation?) takes as its starting point that while conversation must be considered the primary kind of speech, we are still far better at modelling monologue than dialogue, in theory as well as for speech technology applications. There are also good reasons to assume that conversation contains a number of features that are not foun...

The research of the authors investigates an alternative interface for Instant Messaging (IM). This paper presents SWIM (SWinburne Instant Messaging), an IM tool that is developed based on MSN Messenger. SWIM presents an innovative interface design that combines the conventional sequential interface with the adaptive threaded interface. In addition, SWIM supports persistent conversation which fa...

An E-Partner is a photo-realistic conversation agent, which has a talking head that not only look photo-realistic but also can have a conversation with the user about a given topic. The conversation is multimedia-enriched in that the E-Partner presents relevant multimedia materials throughout the conversation. To address the challenges presented by the complex conversation domain and task, and ...

BACKGROUND There has been increasing interest in dementia care in recent years, including how practitioners, service providers and society in general can help individuals to live well with the condition. An important aspect to this is provision of advice to ensure conversation partners effectively support the person with dementia in conversation. AIMS To provide a descriptive review of the li...

Using audio visualization, we seek to demonstrate how natural interaction is augmented with the addition of interaction history. Our Conversation Clock visualization captures and represents audio in a persistent and meaningful representation to provide social cues not available in an otherwise ephemeral conversation. In this paper we present user study evaluation of the Conversation Clock as ut...

We introduce a newmalware detector – Shape-GD – that aggregates per-machine detectors into a robust global detector. Shape-GD is based on two insights: 1. Structural: actions such as visiting a website (waterhole attack) or membership in a shared email thread (phishing attack) by nodes correlate well with malware spread, and create dynamic neighborhoods of nodes that were exposed to the same at...