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Speech intelligibility in various spatial configurations of background noise
Archives of Acoustics, 2005 This study is concerned with the influence of spatial separation of disturbing sources of noise on the speech intelligibility. Spatial separation of speech and disturbing sources without changing their acoustic power may contribute to the ...
J. Kociński, A. Sęk
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Looking for Trouble: Pre‐Intervention Monitoring in Human and AI Driver Training
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.We compare two types of situations involving monitoring of car driving: a driving instructor overseeing a trainee driver and a safety driver overseeing the performance of autonomous vehicle (AV) software. Our focus is on instances of monitoring that precede (1) interventions that are aborted before impacting the driving and (2) actual interventions on ...
Mathias Broth +2 more
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An Outline of a Theory of Play
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev +2 more
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“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned.
Phil Hutchinson
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Speech Intelligibility in Children with Cochlear Implant, with Hearing Aids and Normal Hearing
Journal of Rehabilitation, 2013 Objective: The purpose of the present research was to compare speech intelligibility in children with cochlear implant, with hearing aids and normal hearing in Tehran province. Materials & Methods: Sixty children underwent this analytic and comparative
Mohammad A'shouri +3 more
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Managing Robot Perception: How Families Present Their Faces to a Toy Robot
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Playing with a robot's face detection capabilities constitutes a praxeological approach to learning about new technology. We explore how family members discover suitable formations for a Cozmo robot to scan a single face, drawing on video recordings from Swedish homes. Taking an ethnomethodology and conversation‐analysis perspective, we demonstrate how
Hannah Pelikan +2 more
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IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, EarlyView.Remote work, which enables employees to work from home, has emerged as a prominent working style in recent years. However, unlike traditional office environments where the ‘atmosphere of the space’ is naturally shared, remote work relies on screen‐based communication, making it challenging to convey this atmosphere.
Ariyasu Ando +5 more
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