This investigation examined how computer-mediated communication (CMC) partners exchange personal information in initial interactions, focusing on the effects of communication channels on self-disclosure, question-asking, and uncertainty reduction. Unacquainted individuals (N = 158) met either face-to-face or via CMC. Computer-mediated interactants exhibited a greater proportion of more direct a...

English talk shows have attracted a large group of audience with their humorous and relaxing features these programmes are not only entertaining but also information-oriented, so the smooth progression host-guest interaction is very important for producers, interactants, audience. However, fact that show interactants do always construct turns collaborative efforts presence dispreferred response...

Social human--robot interaction is concerned with exploring the ways in which social can be achieved between a human and sociable robot. Affect has an important role as it helps interactants coordinate indicate ...

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...

This paper deals with openings and closings in 400 service encounters tourist offices situated Belgium’s two main language communities, Flanders Wallonia, the north of France south Netherlands. On basis a detailed, bottom-up quantitative analysis structural properties closings, we draw part interactional profiles office encounters. Differences between four regions are shown to be related degree...

Abstract Real-time multisensory social interactions (RMSIs) between people are at the center of metaverse, a new computer-mediated environment consisting virtual “worlds” in which act and communicate with each other real-time via avatars. This research investigates whether RMSIs when accessed through virtual-reality headsets, can generate more value for interactants terms interaction outcomes (...

Successful dialogue is based on collaborative efforts of the interactants to ensure mutual understanding. This paper presents work towards making conversational agents ‘attentive speakers’ that continuously attend to the communicative feedback given by their interlocutors and adapt their ongoing and subsequent communicative behaviour to their needs. A comprehensive conceptual and architectural ...

Based on a survey sample of 435 China postgraduates majoring in International Chinese Education with different undergraduate English learning experience, the research attempted to find out how five elements proposed by Chen & Starosta (2000), interacted or influenced each other. Those incorporated Intercultural Communication Competence Scale (ICCS), developed are interaction engagement, res...