Rapport plays an important role during communication because it can help people understand each other’s feelings or ideas and leads to a smooth communication. Computational rapport model has been proposed based on theory in [36]. But there lacks solid verification. In this paper, we apply structural equation model (SEM) to the theoretical model on both dyads of friend and stranger. The results ...

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This paper describes research on automatically building rapport. This is done by adapting responses in a spoken dialog system to users’ emotions as inferred from nonverbal voice properties. Emotions and their acoustic correlates will be extracted from a persuasive dialog corpus and will be used to implement an emotionally intelligent dialog system; one that can recognize emotion, choose an opti...

four cases of sclerodermia have been reported durintwo months. sclerodermia which seems to he hardness of the skin is actually a general affection that first appears on the skin and has various types: edematous, sclerema for children, and then the forms of patches or drops or bands or annulars. it is sor t of connective tissue affection and is chiefly observed in women and as the reason for it,...

This report presents the study of algorithms whose goal is to determine whether two Datalog programs are equivalent. Datalog is a query language used over deductive databases. Datalog is a fragment of Prolog, and consists in Horn clauses without function symbols. In general, it is undecidable whether two given Datalog programs are equivalent one to each other; however, this problem becomes deci...

Better conversational alignment can lead to shared understanding, changed beliefs, and increased rapport. We investigate the relationship in peer tutoring of convergence, interpersonal rapport, and student learning. We develop an approach for computational modeling of convergence by accounting for the horizontal richness and time-based dependencies that arise in non-stationary and noisy longitu...

With standardization e orts of a query language for XML documents drawing to a close, researchers and users increasingly focus their attention on the database technology that has to deliver on the new challenges that the sheer amount of XML documents produced by applications pose to data management: validation, performance evaluation and optimization of XML query processors are the upcoming iss...

The expressive power of process algebras is investigated in a general setting of structural operational semantics. The notion of an eeective operational semantics is introduced and it is observed that no eeective operational semantics for an enumerable language can specify all eeective process graphs up to trace equivalence. A natural class of Plotkin style SOS speciications is identiied, conta...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to describe the special considerations for building rapport and establishing a therapeutic alliance when conducting mental health evaluations for children and adolescents via videoconferencing. METHODS The authors review the literature and describe their experience in conducting mental health evaluations, developing rapport, and establishing a therapeut...