[Air-L] How long is a pause that is considered as a sign of break-down in students' conversations in virtual world classes ?
Yoram Kalman
yoram.kalman at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 02:06:14 PST 2012
Hi,
There is no simple answer to your question. The perception of
communication break-down is context dependent. Our research suggests
that a good rule-of-thumb is that a correspondent whose pause is longer
than ten times the average response time would be perceived as silent.
See our 2006 paper on this topic:
Kalman, Y. M., Ravid, G., Raban, D. R., & Rafaeli, S. (2006). Pauses
and response latencies: A chronemic analysis of asynchronous CMC.
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 12, 1-23. doi:
10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00312.x
as well as:
Kalman, Y. M., & Rafaeli, S. (2011). Online pauses and silence:
Chronemic expectancy violations in written computer-mediated
communication. Communication Research, 38(1), 54-69. doi:
10.1177/0093650210378229
For more information on synchronous CMC see:
Avrahami, D., & Hudson, S. E. (2006, April 22-27). Responsiveness in
instant messaging: predictive models supporting inter-personal
communication. Paper presented at the CHI conference, Montréal,
Canada. ([1]http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nx6/pubs/Avrahami_CHI_06.pdf)
If you need more information, feel free to contact me off-list.
Yoram
Yoram Kalman, PhD
[2]www.kalmans.com
Cell: +972 54 574 7375
On 11/12/2012 11:18, Wang Airong wrote:
Dear all,
Apologize for cross-posting!
I am looking for literature that talks about pauses in students' conversations e
specially in the virtual world classes. Does anybody know such kind of literatur
e, and how long is a pause that is considered to be a break-down, 4 seconds, or
something else?
Thank you so much!
Best,
Airong WANG
Doctoral Student in English Didactics
Mid Sweden University
Sweden
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