Search results for "conversa"

Proposed use of a conversational agent for patient empowerment

2021

Empowerment is a process through which people acquire the necessary knowledge and self-awareness to understand their conditions and treatment options, make informed choices and self-manage their health conditions in daily life, in collaboration with medical professionals. Conversational Agents in healthcare could play an important role in the process of empowering a person but, so far, they have been seldom been used for this purpose. This paper presents the basic principles and preliminary implementation of a conversational health agent for patient empowerment. It dialogues with the user in a "natural" way, collects health data from heterogeneous sources and provides the user wit…

¿Reproduciendo la lógica mediática?. Un estudio empírico sobre el impacto del debate electoral español en nuevos y viejos medios

2013

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Human-in-the-Loop Conversation Agent for Customer Service

2020

This paper describes a prototype system for partial automation of customer service operations of a mobile telecommunications operator with a human-in-the loop conversational agent. The agent consists of an intent detection system for identifying the types of customer requests that it can handle appropriately, a slot filling information extraction system that integrates with the customer service database for a rule-based treatment of the common scenarios, and a template-based language generation system that builds response candidates that can be approved or amended by customer service operators. The main focus of this paper is on the system architecture and machine learning system structure …

Teachers' evaluative turns in Finnish CLIL classrooms

2008

Modeller i kjemiundervisning - et eksempel på hvordan de kan bidra til læring og feillæring

2021

We discuss the use of analogical models in science education using examples from online learning resources.  We have conducted a teaching program for a group of 7th grade pupils and a group of science teacher students, and the main theme of this program is the use of models in chemistry. Specifically, we study the effect of an analogical model that is designed to promote understanding of the properties of molecules, related to a paper chromatography experiment. Our research indicates that analogical models can be a useful tool to convey understanding of abstract concepts and non-visible phenomena, but they hold serious pitfalls that can lead to misunderstandings amongst students if not used…

Multimodale Analyse von Interaktion im fremdsprachlichen Klassenzimmer. Multimodal analysis of interaction in a foreign language class.

2016

The article offers a contribution to the interaction research in the foreign language teaching and learning. It starts with an overview of various research approaches to the foreign language teaching and learning, from the 60s to the present days. A multimodal analysis of an excerpt of videorecorded classroom interaction is then provided. The analysis is focused on several aspects of classroom participation and teaching sequences. Some implications of the present research for teachers' training are finally provided.

Querytogether : Enabling entity-centric exploration in multi-device collaborative search

2018

Collaborative and co-located information access is becoming increasingly common. However, fairly little attention has been devoted to the design of ubiquitous computing approaches for spontaneous exploration of large information spaces enabling co-located collaboration. We investigate whether an entity-based user interface provides a solution to support co-located search on heterogeneous devices. We present the design and implementation of QueryTogether, a multi-device collaborative search tool through which entities such as people, documents, and keywords can be used to compose queries that can be shared to a public screen or specific users with easy touch enabled interaction. We conducted…

Noticing-prefaced recoveries of the interactional space in a video-mediated business meeting

2020

Drawing on conversation analysis and authentic data from a video-mediated multiparty meeting, this study investigates the sequential and temporal organisation of recoveries of the interactional space. It focuses on moments in which either an auditory or a visual barrier emerges, and the participants orient to these troubles through intensified bodily-visual displays: embodied noticings. The analysis illustrates noticing-prefaced recoveries of the interactional space as procedural and multimodal accomplishments that require close attentiveness to the co-participants’ verbal and visual conduct and to the contingencies of the meeting. The study highlights not only the affordances of video-medi…

Los conectores pragmáticos en español coloquial (I) : su papel argumentativo

1993

Entre los elementos que favorecen la cohesión y la coherencia de la conversación coloquial desta can los llamados conectares pragmáticos, unidades que, además de encadenar las unidades del hebla, aseguran la transición de determinadas secuencias del texto hablado, colaborando en el mantenimiento del hilo del discurso y la tensión comunicativa. El conector pragmático se presenta como articulador frástico y transfrástico al mismo tiempo. Y en este sentido su papel se vincula predominantemente a la organización de la actividad discursiva como marcador metadiscursivo o la actividad argumentativa como conector argumentativo. En concreto, en su función argumentativa, tiene la propiedad funcional …

Conversation Analytic Research on Learning-in-Action:The Complex Ecology of Second Language Interaction ‘in the wild’

2019

This volume offers insights on language learning outside the classroom, or in the wild, where L2 users themselves are the driving force for language learning. The chapters, by scholars from around the world, critically examine the concept of second language learning in the wild. The authors use innovative data collection methods (such as video and audio recordings collected by the participants during their interactions outside classrooms) and analytic methods from conversation analysis to provide a radically emic perspective on the data. Analytic claims are supported by evidence from how the participants in the interactions interpret one another’s language use and interactional conduct. Thi…