Browsing by Subject "Communication"
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Accent Anxiety: An Exploration of Non-Native Accent as a Source of Speaking Anxiety among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Students
(2022)Speaking anxiety is a form of foreign language anxiety which may reduce students’ willingness to communicate orally. Despite accent being one of the most salient aspects of speech, there has been little research to date ... -
Accessing the voices of children who use augmentative and alternative communication: Merits and pitfalls of co-construction
(Peter Lang, 2018)Children who have severe speech impairments and who rely on augmentative and alternative communication in order to express themselves are vulnerable to being silenced, due to their difficulties in producing communication ... -
Addressing Human Factors and Ethics in the Design of Future Work and Intelligent Systems for Use in Financial Services - Person Centered Operations, Intelligent Work & the Triple Bottom Line.
(Springer, 2021)New technologies are being introduced to support the future of work in Financial Services. Such technologies should enable work that is smart, healthy, and ethical. This paper presents an innovative and blended methodology ... -
Addressing the Mapping Problem in Sonic Information Design through Embodied Image Schemata, Conceptual Metaphors, and Conceptual Blending
(2018)This article explores the mapping problem in parameter mapping sonification: the problem of how to map data to sound in a way that conveys meaning to the listener. We contend that this problem can be addressed by considering ... -
The ADELE Corpus of Dyadic Social Text Conversations:Dialog Act Annotation with ISO 24617-2
(European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2018)Social or interactional dialog is less well described than task-based or instrumental dialog, although there is increasing interest in the genre, particularly in light of new spoken and text dialog applications which aim ... -
ADELE: Care and companionship for independent aging
(2018)Dialogue system technology offers interesting prospects for services to seniors living independently. A spoken or text dialog system can support services such as monitoring medication adherence, fall prevention and ... -
ADELE: Evaluating and Benchmarking an Artificial Conversational Care Agent
(http://casforhealth.org, 2020-04-26)This paper provides an overview of a planned experiment to evaluate the latest iteration of ADELE, an artificial conversational agent to aid in the care of the elderly. It is being evaluated against an earlier iteration ... -
Ambient Data Monitoring w/Generative Music Systems using EC & ML Techniques.
(2018)This is a position paper which describes work in progress to develop an AI/ML driven auditory ambient information system which incorporates generative music techniques and considers some of the factors involved the design ... -
Angle of Arrival Estimation Via Small IoT Devices: Miniaturized Arrays vs MIMO Antennas
(2022)This tutorial discusses the problem of Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) estimation from small Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It reviews the limitations and challenges of existing miniaturization strategies, which involve classical ... -
Annotation of greeting, introduction, and leavetaking in dialogues
(2017)Dialogue act annotation aids understanding of interaction structure, and also in the design of artificial dialogue. While many dialogues can be described as task-based or instrumental, others are more interactional. These ... -
Assessing Human-Parity in Machine Translation on the Segment Level
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020)Recent machine translation shared tasks have shown top-performing systems to tie or in some cases even outperform human translation. Such conclusions about system and human performance are, however, based on estimates ... -
Attuning: a communication process between people with severe and profound intellectual disability and their interaction partners.
(2016)People with severe and profound intellectual disability typically demonstrate a limited ability to communicate effectively. Most of their communications are non-verbal, often idiosyncratic and ambiguous. This article ... -
Automatic Discovery and Geotagging of Objects from Street View Imagery
(2018)Many applications, such as autonomous navigation, urban planning, and asset monitoring, rely on the availability of accurate information about objects and their geolocations. In this paper, we propose the automatic detection ... -
Autonomous Tracking For Volumetric Video Sequences
(2021)As a rapidly growing medium, volumetric video is gaining attention beyond academia, reaching industry and creative communities alike. This brings new challenges to reduce the barrier to entry from a technical ... -
The BCH message banking process, voice banking, and double dipping
(2021)Significant advances have been made in interventions to maintain communication and personhood for individuals with neurodegenerative conditions. One innovation is Message Banking, a clinical approach first developed at ... -
Between index and icon: Towards the semiotics of the cast shadow
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Building a New Relationship between Voluntary Organisations and the State in the Health and Social Care Sectors: Paper for the Dialogue Forum with voluntary organisations
(National Economic and Social CouncilIE, 2021-07-30)The Dialogue Forum with Voluntary Organisations was established by the Minister of Health in 2019 with the aim of building a stronger working relationship between the State and the voluntary healthcare sector for the benefit ... -
Building High Usability Consumer-oriented Linked Data Mobile Apps
(2017)This paper identifies good practice for building high usability Linked Data mobile apps, demonstrates these practices through a prototype app for a commercial service and evaluates the usability achieved. The state of the ... -
Challenges faced by student nurses and midwives in clinical learning environment ??? A systematic review and meta-synthesis
(2021)Objectives: This systematic review aimed to offer insight and understanding, through synthesis of findings from studies that report on perspectives of student nurses/midwives, clinical instructors, clinical nurses/midwives ...