This paper explores the regulatory philosophies underlying the debates on privacy in e-commerce in the European Union and the United States. It offers a framework to grasp these differences and suggests that, in the ultimate, e-commerce players with transatlantic ambitions may need different organizations to deal with the EU and US

Dialogue authoring in large games requires not only content creation but the subtlety of its delivery, which can vary from character to character. Manually authoring this dialogue can be tedious, time-consuming, or even altogether infeasible. This paper utilizes a rich narrative representation for modeling dialogue and an expressive natural language generation engine for realizing it, and expan...

OBJECTIVE To develop consensus-based guidelines for training in mental health and psychosocial interventions for trauma-exposed populations in the international arena. PARTICIPANTS The Task Force on International Trauma Training of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. EVIDENCE The Task Force engaged in a 1-year dialogue on the practice of international training, drawing u...

Learning to speak foreign language requires more than knowing its grammatical and semantic rules. Speaking a language is especially difficult for foreign language learners because effective oral communication requires the ability to use the language appropriately in social interaction. This paper examines these aspects, so that teachers can more effectively help adult learners developing their ...

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...

This article presents some of the emergent methods developed to fit a study of quality in inclusive research with people with learning disabilities. It addresses (i) the ways in which the methodology was a response to the need for constructive, transformative dialogue through use of repeated focus groups in a design interspersing dialogic and reflective spaces; and (ii) how stimulus materials f...

Self-repair(Levelt 1988) is a repair of utterance by speaker him/herself. A truman speaker makes self-repairs very frequently in spontaneous speedt. (Blackmer and Mitton 1991) reported that self-repairs are made once every 4.8 seconds in dialogues taken fi'om radio talk shows. Self-repair is one ldnd of "permissible illformedness", that is a human listener can feel ill-formedness in it hut he/s...