Delays in the completion of joint actions are sometimes unavoidable. How should a robot
communicate that it cannot immediately act or respond in a collaborative task? Drawing on …

People with language impairments, such as aphasia, use a range of total communication
strategies. These go beyond spoken language to include non-verbal utterances, props and …

This work studies the experiences of people who stutter (PWS) with videoconferencing (VC)
and VC technologies. Our interview study with 13 adults who stutter uncovers extra …

This paper investigates transmission delay in technology-mediated interaction from a
participant's perspective. The approach chosen here contrasts with previous studies of …

Video conferencing applications (VCAs) have become an indispensable tool for business,
educational, and personal communications. There is, therefore, considerable interest in …

The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted many business activities to non-face-to-face activities,
and videoconferencing has become a new paradigm. However, conference spaces isolated …

Video meetings are notorious for difficulties with conversational turn-taking, which has
impacts on inclusion and outcomes. We present a scalable automatic process to categorize …

In Web conferences, we sometimes cannot recognize when other participants begin
speaking. This depresses the participants' motivation and wastes time. We can take turns …

Geographically dispersed teams face unique challenges in fostering informal
communication that has been shown to enhance trust among team members. Though many …

Safety message dissemination is a key mechanism for preventing intersection collisions.
Normally, the dissemination is based on vehicular communications, of which the de-facto …