Face-to-Face Communication

Understanding people’s face-to-face interactions is crucial for effective infectious disease management. Traditional contact tracing, often relying on interviews or smartphone applications, faces limitations such as incomplete recall, low adoption rates, and privacy concerns. This study proposes utilizing anonymized Call Detail Records (CDRs) as a substitute for in-person meetings. We assume that when two individuals engage in a phone call connected to the same cell tower, they are likely to meet shortly thereafter. Testing this assumption, we evaluated two hypotheses. The first hypothesis—that such co-located interactions occur in a workplace setting—achieved 83% agreement, which is considered a strong indication of reliability. The second hypothesis—that calls made during these co-location events are shorter than usual—achieved 86% agreement, suggesting an almost perfect reliability level. These results demonstrate that CDR-based co-location events can serve as a reliable substitute for in-person interactions and thus hold significant potential for enhancing contact tracing and supporting public health efforts.

This study examines the pragmatic role of ostensible lies-communicative acts in which falsehoods are mutually recognized but strategically presented as truth-in academic interactions within Jordanian culture. The problem addressed is the limited understanding of these socially coordinated lies and their functions in educational settings. The study's significance lies in its contribution to uncovering how such lies facilitate communication, negotiation of authority, and social boundaries. Data were gathered through informal interviews where participants recounted experiences with ostensible lies in academic contexts. The analysis involved identifying these lies and interpreting their off-record pragmatic purposes. The results reveal that ostensible lies serve several key functions, including avoiding compliments, softening authority, issuing indirect warnings, promoting self-reliance, easing fears of repercussions, persuasion, and maintaining interpersonal boundaries. These findings offer insights into the intersection of cultural norms and pragmatic strategies, with future research needed to explore their effects on educational outcomes and cross-cultural comparisons.

This study investigated the influence of physical and virtual learning spaces on students’ socialization into future professions while attending a modern university. Qualitative analysis of an undergraduate liberal arts program that employs the use of roundtable classrooms was conducted. Findings revealed that the roundtable classroom promotes socialization by facilitating the exchange of elaborate feedback and intellectual talk between students and instructors. However, some students reported feeling exposed or uncomfortable and thus less likely to participate. Virtual learning spaces influenced socialization, and their effectiveness was heavily moderated by the instructor and by the frequency and use of educational technology. Recommendations and suggestions for future research are provided.

This study investigated the influence of physical and virtual learning spaces on interactive learning in a college and university setting. Qualitative analysis of an undergraduate liberal arts program that employs the use of roundtable classrooms was conducted. Interview and focus group data from students and faculty, along with classroom observations, resulted in the finding that the roundtable classroom encouraged interactive learning, face-to-face accountability, and verbal immediacy, along with a “cohort effect” and “fidget factor.” Virtual learning spaces influenced interactive learning, and their effectiveness was heavily moderated by instructors and by the frequency and use of educational technology. Recommendations and suggestions for future research are provided.

A microrregião Bragantina constitui uma das mais antigas áreas de colonização da Amazônia, processo ocorrido com a consolidação da estrada de ferro Belém-Bragança, em fins do século XIX. Neste trabalho, são avaliadas a dinâmica do uso da terra e a configuração da paisagem nas microbacias dos igarapés Cumaru, São João e Timboteua, a partir da análise espacial de imagens TM/Landsat de 2002, 2003 e 2004. Verificou-se que a paisagem das microbacias de estudo é dominada por áreas de vegetação secundária, sendo as áreas de Floresta Antropizada e de atividades agropecuárias bem mais modestas. No contexto da dinâmica do uso da terra, o papel de elemento ativo de pousio agrícola está ligado às áreas de Capoeira Baixa. Em virtude do predomínio da agricultura itinerante nessas áreas, as únicas classes de uso da terra que apresentaram taxas de estabilidade mais relevantes estão associadas à pastagem. O estudo das métricas de configuração da paisagem tende a refletir a fragmentação intensa da paisagem pela ação antrópica, estando ainda em curso o processo de apropriação progressiva de manchas de vegetação com fisionomia florestal para atividades agropecuárias. Palavras-Chave: Dinâmica da paisagem. Ecologia da paisagem. Fragmentação da paisagem. Microbacia hidrográfica. Amazônia Oriental.

Outrora, parte do imperio espanhol na America, o estado do Mato Grosso do Sul e integrado hoje, entre outros, pelo povo Terena. Para os desavisados, um povo que perdeu! Perdeu sua cultura, sua lingua, sua historia. Mas a epigrafe acima de autoria de um anciao e professor Terena nos impacta ao afirmar que “os Terena nao acreditam na derrota, nao acreditam serem vencidos, continuam crendo na sua capacidade de lutar”.

Politicians' greetings are usually studied for their symbolic significance as media events rather than as interactional practices. This article uses conversation analysis to study the greetings that occur just before the start of a stage-managed White House media event. We first operationalize and illustrate the constellation of co-constructed practices that enable a 'greeter' to pivot between multiple 'greeteds', and we show how such an activity reconstitutes participants' situated social identities. We then broaden the scope of our inquiry to consider how such interactional practices contribute to Trump's political persona. We conclude by arguing that our approach can illuminate both the communication styles of specific individuals, as well as the generalized methods through which political personae are constructed in and through social interaction.

Der Beitrag behandelt das Thema der pragmatischen Kompetenz im Fremdsprachenunterricht am Beispiel von humorigen Handlungen im unterrichtlichen Rahmen. Im Artikel werden Beispiele auf Deutsch und Russisch zum Verständnis von Humor und auch einzelne Sprachwitze angeführt. Humor kann dabei in verschiedenen Darstellungsformaten in Erscheinung treten. Diese Kompetenz sowie das angemessene Verständnisses von Humor in kommunikativen Situationen kann für Transkulturalität, nationale und internationale Verständigung als essenziell angesehen werden und ist entsprechend im Gemeinsamen europäischen Referenzrahmen (GER) für Sprachen, an dem sich der Fremdsprachenunterricht orientiert, verankert.

В музыкальной теории XXI в. термины «гомофонный» и «гомофонический» используются на равных правах. Кроме того, в некоторых музыковедческих работах отмечается, что термин «гомофонный» или «гомофонно-гармонический» является устаревшим, либо применяется в историческом контексте к музыке Средних веков. См. подробнее: Холопов Ю.Н. Гомофония // Музыкальная энциклопедия / под ред.

Background: Facial expression recognition is a challenging field, evident by the ineffectiveness of current state-of-the-art techniques that aim to classify facial expressions. Despite showing high levels of accuracy, these methods perform poorly in real-life implementation. This poor performance is because the training sets used are usually simple, limited, and in a controlled lab environment. Methods: This paper explores newer datasets that consist of images taken in challenging conditions with many variations. Using such datasets improves the accuracy of classification because it exposes the model to a variety of samples. In addition, we used new performance metrics to reflect the challenging conditions for classification. We reviewed the current best techniques for expression recognition and laid out a method to design an improved deep neural network using AffectNet, a newer and more challenging dataset. The implementation method is an iterative process that trains a convolution...

Die Verhältnisse zwischen den Menschen sind sehr komplex und wichtig; menschliche Eigenschaften und Handlungen, Blicke und Geste-all diese können einen Code, ein Modell, einen zwischenmenschlichen Kommunikationsstil erschaffen. Die Kommunikation im weiteren Sinne als Transaktionsakt, ist grundlegend, sowohl für die persönliche als auch für die soziale Existenz der Individuen. Daher, Begriffe wie "Kommunikation" und "Sprache" haben eine Mehrzahl von Bedeutungen. Die Kommunikation als Akt, System, Code oder Mittel steht als Grundlage der sozialen Organisierung und Entwicklung und beeinflusst die horizontalen und vertikalen Beziehungen zwischen den Menschen; sie beeinträchtigt sogar ihr intimes Bestreben, aber auch die Erkenntnis der Realität.

Communication patterns are an integral component of activity patterns and the travel induced by these activities. The present study aims to understand the determinants of the communication patterns (by the modes face-to-face, phone, e-mail and SMS) between people and their social network members. The aim is for this to eventually provide further insights into travel behaviour for social and leisure purposes. A social network perspective brings value to the study and modelling of activity patterns since leisure activities are influenced not only by traditional trip measures such as time and cost but also motivated extensively by the people involved in the activity. By using a multiple discrete-continuous extreme value model (Bhat 2005), we can investigate the means of communication chosen to interact with a given social network member (multiple discrete choices) and the frequency of interaction by each mode (treated as continuous) at the same time. The model also allows us to investigate satiation effects for different modes of communication. Our findings show that in spite of people having increasingly geographically widespread networks and more diverse communication technologies, a strong underlying preference for face-to-face contact remains. In contrast with some of the existing work, we show that travel-related variables at the ego level are less important than specific social determinants which can be considered while making use of social network data.

This paper recounts the process by which a severely reading-disabled adult student taught himself to read and write Ancient Greek, and in so doing, improved his ability to read and write in English. Initially, Keith's reading and writing were slow, difficult and inaccurate, accompanied by visual disturbance. However, motivated by a strong interest in Ancient Greek literature and philosophical ideas, Keith enlisted me (his Faculty's academic skills adviser) to help him learn the language. Working on transliteration focused Keith's attention on the alphabetic principle separately from meaning, while practising translation focused on the formal markers of meaning. Relieved of the stress of performing under pressures of time and others' expectations, Keith made good progress with Greek and, after 6 months, found himself reading more fluently in English, without visual disturbance. This paper seeks to contribute to our knowledge of how adults learn to read, looking at the interplay of motivation, phonological awareness, knowledge of how form conveys meaning, and the learning environment. It both draws upon, and raises questions for, the neuroscientific study of dyslexia.

O tempo, nos estudos de Comunicação, não é explicitamente problematizado em sua dimensão constitutiva dos fenômenos interacionais, ou, mais ainda, como variável de toda a ação e da própria existência. Nota-se, com muita frequencia, sua apreensão enquanto variável histórica delimitadora de determinados aspectos da apreensão social das temporalidades. Em outras palavras, os estudos de Comunicação privilegiam o tempo como história, não como categoria analítica ou mesmo epistemológica. Este artigo tenta desenvolver uma visão específica a respeito das potencialidades e limites da presença do tempo nos processos comunicacionais. A partir da reflexão acerca de dimensões temporais em certas Teorias da Comunicação, percebemos que o tempo é componente de destaque nas formulações conceituais, mas que seus aspectos específicos parecem diluir-se como uma dimensão entre outras dos fenômenos interacionais.

This article outlines the evolution and development of Victim Offender Dialogue now seen as a growing part of the Restorative Justice movement worldwide. A case study outlines the rationale given by both victims and offender for participation and the necessary preparation undertaken to conduct an authentic process with both. An examination is made of the nature and extent of the issues explored during the dialogue and the process and outcome of the dialogue itself. This review describe moments of heartbreak, sadness and humour as the dialogue unfolds, capturing key transformational moments in the process. In conclusion, the question of forgiveness is considered, whether it was given or received.

Partial subtle mirroring of nonverbal behaviors during conversations (also known as mimicking or parallel empathy), is essential for rapport building, which in turn is essential for optimal humanhuman communication outcomes. Mirroring has been studied in interactions between robots and humans, and in interactions between Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) and humans. However, very few studies examine interactions between humans and ECAs that are integrated with robots, and none of them examine the e ect of mirroring nonverbal behaviors in such interactions. Our research question is whether integrating an ECA able to mirror its interlocutor's facial expressions and head movements (continuously or intermittently) with a human-service robot will improve the user's experience with the support robot that is able to perform useful mobile manipulative tasks (e.g. at home). Our contribution is the complex integration of an expressive ECA, able to track its interlocutor's face, and to mirror his/her facial expressions and head movements in real time, integrated with a human support robot such that the robot and the agent are fully aware of each others', and of the users', nonverbals cues. We also describe a pilot study we conducted towards answering our research question, which shows promising results for our forthcoming larger user study.

A preparacao de materiais de alfabetizacao em linguas indigenas e um processo complexo que requer a sobreposicao de conhecimentos linguisticos, antropologicos e educacionais. Este trabalho reporta uma colaboracao entre linguistas e antropologos durante a elaboracao de um livro para as primeiras etapas de alfabetizacao em lingua sanoma (yanomami). Nele discutimos como conceitos linguistico cognitivos podem dialogar com a pesquisa etnografca para orientar abordagens pedagogicas coerentes com os contextos de uso da lingua e ao mesmo tempo gerar um mecanismo de acompanhamento cientifico da insercao da escrita em comunidades indigenas.

During the early modern period in England, the temporal characteristics of reality are being corrected. The idea of the gradual decline of the world and the coming end of the world is replaced by the dominance of the idea of gradual progress and movement towards future prosperity. The concept of the influence of planets and numbers on human health and life also faded into the background. The tradition of descriptions aimed at progress and the ac- quisition of new knowledge about the world can be identified in various types of sources - county histories, utopian narratives, etc. This article discusses a lesser-known type, which is educational board games, which flourished in England at the end of the 18th - first half of the 19th centuries. Symbolic numerical values and the perception of movement across the playing field as a spiritual ascent were replaced by the idea of competition, learning and personal progress. Geographic educational games introduced the features of the topographic structure of Britain and the world, putting ideological overtones into its description. We can see this both in historical games and in games “in human life”. Using the example of edu- cational games of the late 18th century, the article shows the temporal characteristics ac- quired by children and youth due to the immersive nature of the game process, when almost every phenomenon presented in the game requires a certain action from the player.

As expressões idiomáticas se fazem presentes quando termos ou frases assumem um significado diferente de quando são analisados por uma perspectiva isolada, isto é, a interpretação é captada de forma global pela soma das palavras. Devido a estas características, o estudo desses elementos linguísticos se torna cada vez mais difícil, uma vez que a língua possui suas variações e especificidades. Considerando que a obra Chuva Branca (1968) é caracterizada por sua grande abordagem lexical, assim como a comunidade do Treme em Bragança/Pará, este trabalho promoverá uma reflexão acerca dos fatores que contribuem para que algumas expressões idiomáticas estejam presentes nos espaços supracitados, ainda que o tempo e a realidade sejam distintas. É de grande valia ressaltar que este artigo faz parte de uma pesquisa maior que está sendo desenvolvida por meio de uma análise minuciosa e sistematizada dos principais aspectos lexicais da obra e da comunidade, tendo como base a lexicologia e a tradução cultural. Assim, este trabalho destacará pontos relevantes acerca do território amazonense, dando ênfase à cultura e aos hábitos populacionais que influenciaram e influenciam consideravelmente os aspectos linguísticos de um povo, nesse caso, os ribeirinhos.

As expressões idiomáticas se fazem presentes quando termos ou frases assumem um significado diferente de quando são analisados por uma perspectiva isolada, isto é, a interpretação é captada de forma global pela soma das palavras. Devido a estas características, o estudo desses elementos linguísticos se torna cada vez mais difícil, uma vez que a língua possui suas variações e especificidades. Considerando que a obra Chuva Branca (1968) é caracterizada por sua grande abordagem lexical, assim como a comunidade do Treme em Bragança/Pará, este trabalho promoverá uma reflexão acerca dos fatores que contribuem para que algumas expressões idiomáticas estejam presentes nos espaços supracitados, ainda que o tempo e a realidade sejam distintas. É de grande valia ressaltar que este artigo faz parte de uma pesquisa maior que está sendo desenvolvida por meio de uma análise minuciosa e sistematizada dos principais aspectos lexicais da obra e da comunidade, tendo como base a lexicologia e a traduçã...

Este artigo aborda três pesquisas envolvendo Linguística de Corpus e Terminologia Bilíngue Alemão/Português com uso do Programa AntConc. Na primeira, objetivou-se extrair termos de Economia em jornais eletrônicos alemães; na segunda e na terceira, o objetivo foi a extração de termos da cultura material indígena em obras de Koch-Grünberg para elaboração de glossário bilíngue. Nas duas primeiras, utilizando-se das ferramentas Word List, Concordance e File View, extraiu-se em pouco tempo um expressivo número de termos cuja frequência foi estabelecida de maneira confiável. A terceira pesquisa, em fase inicial, deverá ampliar os resultados da segunda, atualmente com 257 termos e suas traduções.

The earliest studies by transportation researchers focus largely on the effect of telecommuting on travel behaviour. Several of them used the geo coded activity-travel data to assess the impact of home-based telecommuting on Chapter 2 offers a methodological discussion, and provides a detailed account of social network analysis. This chapter also describes the context of Ahmedabad and its appropriateness as a case study. Chapter 3 answers research objective 1. To examine how social network analysis can be included in travel research. The first section of the chapter

This paper explores how students communicate, comparing face-to-face and digital interactions. It discusses the lively and expressive nature of in-person chats versus the quick and concise online conversations. The author shares their preference for face-to-face communication, emphasizing the immediate connection and real-time feedback it provides. The study also touches on communication psychology, noting the significance of body language in face-to-face talks and the emotive use of emojis in digital exchanges. Overall, the paper highlights the importance of these communication styles in shaping student experiences and prompts consideration of future study spot adventures.

When I carry out face-to-face interpersonal communication and digital interpersonal communication. The differences between these two modes become increasingly clear. I hope to dig deeper into the unique qualities and challenges each communication poses and understand how they shape our relationships communicate.

Lecturing still remains today the most common form of teaching in Higher Education notwithstanding its critics. Giving lectures has both strengths and limitations. This paper reports on the outcomes of a study that investigates the lecturing mode at the

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Goffman's analytic framework can provide tools useful for a critical theory of modern society. While commentators have remarked on Goffman's apparent technical neutrality, a sociology of humor can help reveal his critical thrust. Using a latent content analysis, we demonstrate how several frames found in Jerry Seinfeld's humor are both dramaturgical and covertly critical. We use these themes to illuminate the critical analyses of modern social life provided by Goffman's method.

Este artigo trata, à luz da Teoria da Metáfora Conceptual, defendida por Lakoff e Johnson (2002), duas questões cruciais para aqueles que se dedicam à interpretação e tradução de outras línguas e culturas: a) se as metáforas realmente existem e nos apercebemos delas como tais, como compreendemos realmente as metáforas provenientes de cultura/língua diferentes das nossas? e b) em que medida estamos autorizados, como pesquisadores, a estender uma metáfora, feita em outra cultura/língua, para a compreensão de sistemas complexos de pensamento? Palavras-chave: Metáfora. Sistemas complexos de pensamentos. Línguas Indígenas.

RESUMO: As línguas indígenas brasileiras têm recebido maior atenção da Linguística nos últimos anos, contudo, estamos longe de dar a elas um tratamento condizente com a necessidade de seu conhecimento e de sua documentação. Assim, no intuito de contribuir para o desenvolvimento da área, o grupo LINBRA tem realizado um amplo trabalho de pesquisa, cujos frutos têm surgido dentro de temáticas diversificadas. Este trabalho buscou contribuir para um projeto maior de construir um banco de dados do léxico de línguas indígenas de diversos campos semânticos, e também analisar a fragilidade sistemática do trabalho dos dicionaristas ao registrarem em suas obras complexos termos de parentesco de modo bastante inconsistente. Portanto, pretendemos contribuir para o conhecimento dos estudos nessa área específica, apontando possibilidades para novos caminhos. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Línguas indígenas. Banco de dados. Parentesco indígena. ABSTRACT:.Brazilian indigenous languages have received an increasing attention from Linguistics in recent years, however, it is not suficiente in relation to the needs of their knowledge and documentation. Thus, in order to contribute to the development of the field, the LINBRA group has carried out an extensive research work, whose fruits have arisen within diverse themes. This work tried to contribute to a project of construction of a database of the lexicon of indigenous languages of diverse semantic fields, as well as to analyze the systematic fragility of the work of lexicographers by registering in their works complex terms of kinship

Este artigo aborda três pesquisas envolvendo Linguística de Corpus e Terminologia Bilíngue Alemão/Português com uso do Programa AntConc. Na primeira, objetivou-se extrair termos de Economia em jornais eletrônicos alemães; na segunda e na terceira, o objetivo foi a extração de termos da cultura material indígena em obras de Koch-Grünberg para elaboração de glossário bilíngue. Nas duas primeiras, utilizando-se das ferramentas Word List, Concordance e File View, extraiu-se em pouco tempo um expressivo número de termos cuja frequência foi estabelecida de maneira confiável. A terceira pesquisa, em fase inicial, deverá ampliar os resultados da segunda, atualmente com 257 termos e suas traduções.

An increasing amount of research has been carried out on Facial Emotion Recognition in the past few decades, due to its significant impact on Human-Computer interaction. Recognition of Facial expressions are essential for a variety of automated applications, especially in the field of computer-vision, security, education, social media, healthcare, AI based applications. Good amount of work and effective methodologies are proposed for Facial Emotion Recognition (FER), intended for static images and motion images. Conventionally, to recognize Facial emotions, researchers used methods such as Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) , Support Vector Machines (SVM), Valence-Arousal Dimensional features (VAD), a hybrid approach HOG and visual descriptors such as, Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Eigen faces, Face-landmark, and Texture Features. However, Convolution Neural Network has achieved milestones in terms of accuracy for recognizing Facial emotions. As part of the survey, we even studied standard datasets used for Facial Emotion identification. In addition to human-computer interaction, facial expression recognition technology is used in many real world applications such as intelligence control, fatigue detection; public/ political meeting analysis, etc. Man-Machine interactions are the real necessity of the present day in various fields and FER plays a very important role in that requirement.