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1. Bringing the avatar to life : Studies and developments in facial communication for virtual agents and robots
Sammanfattning : The work presented in this thesis comes in pursuit of the ultimate goal of building spoken and embodied human-like interfaces that are able to interact with humans under human terms. Such interfaces need to employ the subtle, rich and multidimensional signals of communicative and social value that complement the stream of words – signals humans typically use when interacting with each other. LÄS MER
2. Laughter, excitement, and suspense in preschool : Choreographing emotional stances as a multiparty achievement
Sammanfattning : Most research on emotions, including that which takes a social perspective, is directed at negative emotions and their manifestation in social situations that involve conflicts, disputes, and arguments. This thesis instead aims to address children’s heightened positive emotions and their interactional functions within the peer group and in learning encounters with teachers in preschool. LÄS MER
3. Trajectories of Learning : Embodied Interaction in Change
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about learning as changing understanding in social and situated activities. It takes part in the development of a reconceptualization of learning initiated within participationist perspectives. Multiparty interaction in situated activities is a primordial site for the exploration of human action and cognition. LÄS MER
4. A Collaborative Access Control Framework for Online Social Networks
Sammanfattning : Online social networks (OSNs) are one of the most popular web-based services for people to communicate and share information with each other. With all their benefits, OSNs might raise serious problems in what concerns users' privacy. One privacy risk is caused by accessing and sharing co-owned data items, i.e. LÄS MER
5. Episodes in talk : Constructing coherence in multiparty conversation
Sammanfattning : This study contributes to an understanding of how coherence can be assigned or constructed by participants in authentic multiparty conversational interaction. Coherence is analysed as a type of organisation relevant for the making of meaning in situated interaction, but also in retrospect from a third party's (or analyst's) perspective; it is both constructed and reconstructed. LÄS MER
