Background: Discussing and sharing information in development teams is part of any software project. Therefore, software engineers spend significant time in meetings with their team. Communicating effectively and efficiently in those meetings is ...

In this paper, we discuss the effect of using an avatar on interpersonal communication. Past research has confirmed that changes in communication and cognition such as the “Proteus effect” and “disappearance of stereotypes” occur. In this research,...

During recruitment interviews, the facial impressions of the interviewers likely affect the nervousness of the interviewees and make it difficult to conduct fair and consistent interview processes. To minimize the difference in facial impressions among ...

Encounters with casual acquaintances are common in our daily lives. In such situations, people are sometimes unable to find an appropriate topic for conversation, and as such, an awkward silence follows. However, we believe that this awkward encounter ...

The facial expression that arises from our emotion takes an important role in face-to-face communication. Some might not be good at making an appropriate facial expression according to the situation. In this paper, we propose a mask-type display that ...

With the increasing trend of students going abroad to pursue their higher education, cross-cultural collaboration has become increasingly important. This study explores what considerations need to be taken into account when designing a pedagogical tool ...

To precisely understand human gaze behaviors in three-party conversations, this work is dedicated to look into whether the speaker can be reliably identified from the interlocutors in a three-party conversation on the basis of the interactive behaviors ...

In face-to-face communication, humans convey nonverbal information to supplement verbal language. Eye gaze in particular is a critical element. While a variety of studies on communication support focusing on eye gaze have been performed in the past, ...

To design computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) systems that effectively support remote collaboration, designers need a better understanding of how people collaborate face-to-face and the mechanisms that they use to coordinate their actions. ...

Studies in social science and social computing have revealed that group dynamics plays an important role in group performance. Face-to-face interaction among group members has been regarded as one of the major determinants of performance in various ...

An experiment using wearable sensor badges showed that there was a strong correlation between students' physical behaviors and their scholastic performance. For example, students whose bodily movements were in harmony with those of their classmates ...

Improving team performance has long been a great concern of leaders and managers. Recent progress in wearable sensor technologies has given them a strong means of grasping their team conditions. Studies using such technologies have shown, for example, ...

Facial expressions play an important role in human communication. Accurate recognition of facial expressions is important to understand nonverbal communication. Many tools have been developed but to recognize facial impressions in real life ...

Social media and online communication encourage social interaction but do little to strengthen community relations between people who live in the same area. The aim of this work is to develop a set of requirements, in this initial case from a group of ...

This paper proposes a method for conveying emotions in face-to-face communication by superimposing comic book images on real world using augmented reality technology. We implemented a system named "Intra-expo" that superimposes comic book images which ...

Social Surroundings is an application that uses smartphones and online social networks to help eliminate social barriers and encourage natural communication in public places.

No firm can survive without building a mechanism to create knowledge in the 21st century. The knowledge creation theory by Nonaka has successfully generalized a knowledge-creation process in an organization. However, nobody has found a quantitative ...

With the ever-growing ubiquity of computer-mediated communication, the application of language research to computer-mediated environments becomes increasingly relevant. How do overhearer effects, discourse markers, differences for monologues and ...

This paper proposes a novel tabletop display system for natural communication and flexible information sharing. The proposed system is specifically designed to integrate two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) user interfaces by using a multi-...