Greetings from the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor. To read full message, please open PDF link. Welcome to final issue of 2023 for Canadian Journal Career Development. This year has seen an increase in submissions our we are grateful have so many consider us their research publication. Our reviewers were certainly delighted intrigued by your work. Contained within this six articles that ad...

When we humans start a conversation, we are greeting at first. If computer and robot are greeting like us, they can communicate smoothly with us because the next subject comes easily after greeting. That is to say, greeting conversation plays an important part to smooth communications in speaking. In this report, we describe a method of increase the number of appropriate greeting sentences for ...

In human-robot interaction, it is important for the robots to adapt to our ways of communication. As humans, rules of non-verbal communication, including greetings, change depending on our culture. Social robots should adapt to these specific differences in order to communicate effectively, as a correct way of approaching often results into better acceptance of the robot. In this study, a novel...

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Abstract This paper investigates the phenomenon of greeting in English, which can be surprisingly challenging for speakers other languages, such as Chinese. By ‘greeting’ we mean seemingly ‘simple’ act choosing conventionalized expressions at opening an encounter. Following pilot interviews with Chinese learners English who reported puzzlement concerning pursue a two-fold approach to explore co...