How long is a pause that is considered as a sign of break-down in students' conversations in virtual world classes ?
Dear all, Apologize for cross-posting! I am looking for literature that talks about pauses in students’ conversations especially in the virtual world classes. Does anybody know such kind of literature, 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
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 _______________________________________________ The [3]Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [4]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [5]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinf o.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [6]http://www.aoir.org/ References 1. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nx6/pubs/Avrahami_CHI_06.pdf 2. http://www.kalmans.com/ 3. mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org 4. http://aoir.org/ 5. http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org 6. http://www.aoir.org/
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