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AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Politeness in Tactics for Pedagogical Agents
Politeness may play a role in tutorial interaction, including promoting learner motivation and avoiding negative affect. Politeness theory can account for this as a means of mitiga...
W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Elisabeth Andr...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 days ago
Computing political preference among twitter followers
Through anecdotal evidence and a variety of methods, claims are constantly being made about the bias of media outlets. As many of those outlets create online personas, we seek to ...
Jennifer Golbeck, Derek L. Hansen
GI
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Topic bias in the social media - The representation of political topics in Obama's 'Open for Questions'-campaign in comparison t
: There is a large body of research on the topic of political communication in traditional media and in online media. Since President Obama has made use of new forms of participati...
Anna Riedel, Send Hendrik
PUC
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
The Media Equation Does Not Always Apply: People are not Polite Towards Small Computers
: The Media Equation asserts that people treat and behave towards computers in much the same way as towards other people, for example regarding politeness. We report the results of...
Mikael Goldstein, Gunilla Alsiö, Jost Werdenh...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Building interpretable discussions: for effective public engagement
Shifts in the culture of civic engagement, technologies and practices surrounding social media, and pressure from political leaders have ignited a movement amongst gov’t agencie...
Travis Kriplean