Presentation on our paper entitled "The Effects of Chronic Multitasking on Analytical Writing" that explains how trait multitaskers incorporate relevant or irrelevant information
Midwest km pugh conversational ai and ai for conversation 190809Katrina (Kate) Pugh
Conversational AI (chat bots) is here to stay, and it's teaching us a lot about transactions, human language patterns, and the limits of computer-human interaction. But what about AI for Conversation? Can we learn from the Conversational AI research and improve how human-to-human conversation works? Where can we use pattern recognition and predictive analytics to improve how we are present as managers, coaches, analysts, family members or diplomats?
Humans of the Internet is a global movement for kindness. Using empathic communication and constructive conflict on the web to make society a better place.
The intersection of Agile/Scrum and the Behavioural Psychology of Teams. There is a science behind building teams. This presentation outlines **some** of it.
Elena Ontiveros - Content Strategy for the Conversational InterfaceLavaConConference
In this session attendees will learn:
Strategies for balancing business goals with user experience
Best practices for developing the strategy and content for your conversations
Ways to adapt your voice and tone to this new communication channel
Tips for setting expectations with humans who think your bot can do everything
Approaches for those interactions that don’t go as planned
Beyond Buzz - Web 2.0 Expo - K.Niederhoffer & M.Smithkategn
A framework to measure a conversation based on approaches from social psychology and sociology. Beyond quantity of buzz, we propose measuring the context of conversation: the signal, person, role, and ecosystem.
ITS 832Chapter 5From Building a Model to Adaptive Robust.docxdonnajames55
ITS 832
Chapter 5
From Building a Model to Adaptive Robust
Decision Making Using Systems Modeling
Information Technology in a Global Economy
Professor Michael Solomon
Introduction
• Systems modeling
• Focus on decision making abilities
• Legacy System Dynamics (SD) modeling
• Recent innovations
• What the future holds
• Examples
Systems modeling
• Dynamic complexity
• Behavior evolves over time
• Modeling methods
• System Dynamics (CD)
• Discrete Event Simulation (DES)
• Multi-actor Systems Modeling (MAS)
• Agent-based Modeling (ABM)
• Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (CAS)
• Enhanced computing supports model based decision making
• Modeling and simulation has become interdisciplinary
• Operation research, policy analysis, data analytics, machine learning,
computer science
Legacy System Dynamics Modeling
• 1950s – Jay W. Forrester
• Primary characteristics
• Feedback effects – dependent on their own past
• Accumulation effects – building up intangibles
• Behavior of a system is explained
• Casual theory – model generates dynamic behavior
• Works well when
• Complex system responds to feedback and accumulation
Recent Innovations
• Detailed list of individual innovations
• Deep uncertainty
• Analysts do not know or cannot agree on
• Model
• Probability distributions of key features
• Value of alternative outcomes
• Two primary evolutions
• Smarter methods (Data Science)
• Usability/accessibility advances
What the Future Holds
• Better models
• More data (“Big Data”)
• Social media
• Advanced capabilities for
• Hybrid modeling
• Simultaneous modeling
Modeling and Simulation
Examples
• Assessing the Risk, and Monitoring, of New Infectious
Diseases
• Simple systems model with deep uncertainty
• Integrated Risk-Capability Analysis Under Deep
Uncertainty
• System-of-systems approach
• Policing Under Deep Uncertainty
• Smart model-based decision support system
Summary
• Modeling has long been used with complex systems
• Recent evolutions have advanced modeling
• Increase computing power
• Social media and Big data
• Sophisticated analytics
• Multi-method and hybrid approaches are now feasible
• Continued move into interdisciplinary study
• Advanced modeling for complex systems
ANSWER TO THIS TWO STUDENTS.
Jacqueline Kash
9/26/19, 12:06 AM
Top of Form
· What characteristics of effective written communication lead to quality psychology research writing? Why?
Choosing the words that will help people to stay interested in what is being writing. The way your wright the paper that people are reading can also help for people to stay more interest. Like writing a long sentence and then a short sentences can make it easier for people to stay more interested.(Beins & Beins, 2012, p.81) Something that can help the way to keep readers interested is to help your reader to know how to read the part of the paper this helps them to know how to put together that part of the paper with the rest. W.
Communication & TechnologyComputer-Mediated Co.docxclarebernice
Communication
&
Technology
Computer-Mediated Communication
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) = any human
communication achieved through computer or internet
technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07TinrpKG6o
Computer-Mediated Communication
“The increasing use of texting is evidence of a
MAJOR TRANSITION in our communication
culture, shifting from communicating
synchronously (in real time, such as talking in
person or on the phone) to communicating
asynchronously (with a delay, such as texting or
emailing). It has fundamentally reconfigured the
way we interact with each other”
(The Gravitate Research Group, 2015,p. 8)
Computer-Mediated Communication
“The increasing use of texting is evidence of a
MAJOR TRANSITION in our communication
culture, shifting from communicating
synchronously (in real time, such as talking in
person or on the phone) to communicating
asynchronously (with a delay, such as texting or
emailing). It has fundamentally reconfigured the
way we interact with each other”
(The Gravitate Research Group, 2015,p. 8)
Reflection:
Do you agree? How has
text-based comm
fundamentally changed
the way we interact with
each other?
Advantages of CMC
(Romiszowski and Mason)
What are some advantages of CMC?
1. Connects geographically dispersed individuals
2. Offers flexibility
3. Combines permanent nature of written comm. with the speed and
dynamism of oral comm.
Digital comm. as a mixed modality (Baym)
4. Asynchronous CMC allows for greater reflection
5. Has egalitarian potential
Limitations of CMC
Reduced cues environment
Limits nonverbal communication
Offers more potential for deception
Offers more potential for misunderstandings
Encourages flaming
Online Disinhibition Effect
(Suler, 2004)
Tendency for people to say and do things in Cyberspace that they
would not ordinarily say and do in face-to-face encounters
Reduced concern for self-presentation and the judgment of others
Factors that contribute to online disinhibition:
Anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and minimization of authority
Online Disinhibition Effect
(Suler, 2004)
Tendency for people to say and do things
in Cyberspace that they would not
ordinarily say and do in face-to-face
encounters
Reduced concern for self-presentation
and the judgment of others
Factors that contribute to online
disinhibition:
Anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and
minimization of authority
Online Disinhibition Effect
(Suler, 2004)
Reflection
In what ways can online disinhibition be problematic?
In what ways can it be positive and/or helpful?
Toxic disinhibition vs. benign disinhibition
Social Media & the Cost of Caring
Does the use of social media, mobile phones, and the internet
cause higher levels of stress? Why or why not?
Social Media and the Cost of Caring
The Pew Research Center surveyed 1,801 adults about their frequency o ...
These slides were part of the kickoff for the Social Computing Collaborative group at the University of Minnesota - Jan. 2011. Each participant presented a single slide as part of their introduction of themselves and their social computing research interest areas.
LIWC2015: Using Word-Based Psychometrics for Research Shalin Hai-Jew
How people use words—in speech, in writing—can reveal a lot about a person. In a research context, computational text analysis may be applied to extract linguistic patterns from people’s language-based expressions. This presentation demonstrations the application of LIWC2015 for psychometric insights in a research context, to surface insights about individuals, shed light on various hypotheses, compare various text-based expressions, and otherwise engage various corpora through psychological measures.
my report in Com 311: Seminar in Cross-Cultural Research at the College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman - PhD Media Studies program
Mining Smartphone Data to Classify Life-Facets of Social Relationships at CSC...Jason Hong
People engage with many overlapping social networks and enact diverse social roles across different facets of their lives. Unfortunately, many online social networking services reduce most people’s contacts to “friend.” A richer computational model of relationships would be useful for a number of applications such as managing privacy settings and organizing communications. In this paper, we take a step towards a richer computational model by using call and text message logs from mobile phones to classifying contacts according to life facet (family, work, and social). We extract various features such as communication intensity, regularity, medium, and temporal tendency, and classify the relationships using machine-learning techniques. Our experimental results on 40 users showed that we could classify life facets with up to 90.5% accuracy. The most relevant features include call duration, channel selection, and time of day for the communication.
Authors are Jun-Ki Min, Jason Wiese, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman
In 2015 I gave a one-day workshop to a group of Technology/Engineering students. How to develop empathy using these practical methods and how to apply empathy in developing technology solutions to people's problems. This workshop can be given to any technology students.
Fostering Engagement with Team-Based Learning (TBL) in Larger Japanese Univer...Brent Jones
This presentation introduces an action research project conducted during the 2020 Fall semester that was aimed at exploring the benefits and challenges to implementing a team-based learning approach in larger online and face-to-face English classes at university in Japan. The participants in this study were a group of fifty-six students enrolled in an elective culture-focused Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) course taught by the presenter. This interactive talk starts with some contextual background, and goes on to outline the mixed-methods research design before offering an overview of how the semester unfolded. Findings and discussion are then provided to highlight key issues related to using TBL in this context. Due to COVID-19, four out of the fifteen class meetings were conducted synchronously on Zoom, and necessary adjustments and lessons learned are also presented. It is hoped that this research might further inspire language teachers in a range of contexts to experiment with team-based learning and other active learning approaches in their language classes.
Midwest km pugh conversational ai and ai for conversation 190809Katrina (Kate) Pugh
Conversational AI (chat bots) is here to stay, and it's teaching us a lot about transactions, human language patterns, and the limits of computer-human interaction. But what about AI for Conversation? Can we learn from the Conversational AI research and improve how human-to-human conversation works? Where can we use pattern recognition and predictive analytics to improve how we are present as managers, coaches, analysts, family members or diplomats?
Humans of the Internet is a global movement for kindness. Using empathic communication and constructive conflict on the web to make society a better place.
The intersection of Agile/Scrum and the Behavioural Psychology of Teams. There is a science behind building teams. This presentation outlines **some** of it.
Elena Ontiveros - Content Strategy for the Conversational InterfaceLavaConConference
In this session attendees will learn:
Strategies for balancing business goals with user experience
Best practices for developing the strategy and content for your conversations
Ways to adapt your voice and tone to this new communication channel
Tips for setting expectations with humans who think your bot can do everything
Approaches for those interactions that don’t go as planned
Beyond Buzz - Web 2.0 Expo - K.Niederhoffer & M.Smithkategn
A framework to measure a conversation based on approaches from social psychology and sociology. Beyond quantity of buzz, we propose measuring the context of conversation: the signal, person, role, and ecosystem.
ITS 832Chapter 5From Building a Model to Adaptive Robust.docxdonnajames55
ITS 832
Chapter 5
From Building a Model to Adaptive Robust
Decision Making Using Systems Modeling
Information Technology in a Global Economy
Professor Michael Solomon
Introduction
• Systems modeling
• Focus on decision making abilities
• Legacy System Dynamics (SD) modeling
• Recent innovations
• What the future holds
• Examples
Systems modeling
• Dynamic complexity
• Behavior evolves over time
• Modeling methods
• System Dynamics (CD)
• Discrete Event Simulation (DES)
• Multi-actor Systems Modeling (MAS)
• Agent-based Modeling (ABM)
• Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (CAS)
• Enhanced computing supports model based decision making
• Modeling and simulation has become interdisciplinary
• Operation research, policy analysis, data analytics, machine learning,
computer science
Legacy System Dynamics Modeling
• 1950s – Jay W. Forrester
• Primary characteristics
• Feedback effects – dependent on their own past
• Accumulation effects – building up intangibles
• Behavior of a system is explained
• Casual theory – model generates dynamic behavior
• Works well when
• Complex system responds to feedback and accumulation
Recent Innovations
• Detailed list of individual innovations
• Deep uncertainty
• Analysts do not know or cannot agree on
• Model
• Probability distributions of key features
• Value of alternative outcomes
• Two primary evolutions
• Smarter methods (Data Science)
• Usability/accessibility advances
What the Future Holds
• Better models
• More data (“Big Data”)
• Social media
• Advanced capabilities for
• Hybrid modeling
• Simultaneous modeling
Modeling and Simulation
Examples
• Assessing the Risk, and Monitoring, of New Infectious
Diseases
• Simple systems model with deep uncertainty
• Integrated Risk-Capability Analysis Under Deep
Uncertainty
• System-of-systems approach
• Policing Under Deep Uncertainty
• Smart model-based decision support system
Summary
• Modeling has long been used with complex systems
• Recent evolutions have advanced modeling
• Increase computing power
• Social media and Big data
• Sophisticated analytics
• Multi-method and hybrid approaches are now feasible
• Continued move into interdisciplinary study
• Advanced modeling for complex systems
ANSWER TO THIS TWO STUDENTS.
Jacqueline Kash
9/26/19, 12:06 AM
Top of Form
· What characteristics of effective written communication lead to quality psychology research writing? Why?
Choosing the words that will help people to stay interested in what is being writing. The way your wright the paper that people are reading can also help for people to stay more interest. Like writing a long sentence and then a short sentences can make it easier for people to stay more interested.(Beins & Beins, 2012, p.81) Something that can help the way to keep readers interested is to help your reader to know how to read the part of the paper this helps them to know how to put together that part of the paper with the rest. W.
Communication & TechnologyComputer-Mediated Co.docxclarebernice
Communication
&
Technology
Computer-Mediated Communication
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) = any human
communication achieved through computer or internet
technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07TinrpKG6o
Computer-Mediated Communication
“The increasing use of texting is evidence of a
MAJOR TRANSITION in our communication
culture, shifting from communicating
synchronously (in real time, such as talking in
person or on the phone) to communicating
asynchronously (with a delay, such as texting or
emailing). It has fundamentally reconfigured the
way we interact with each other”
(The Gravitate Research Group, 2015,p. 8)
Computer-Mediated Communication
“The increasing use of texting is evidence of a
MAJOR TRANSITION in our communication
culture, shifting from communicating
synchronously (in real time, such as talking in
person or on the phone) to communicating
asynchronously (with a delay, such as texting or
emailing). It has fundamentally reconfigured the
way we interact with each other”
(The Gravitate Research Group, 2015,p. 8)
Reflection:
Do you agree? How has
text-based comm
fundamentally changed
the way we interact with
each other?
Advantages of CMC
(Romiszowski and Mason)
What are some advantages of CMC?
1. Connects geographically dispersed individuals
2. Offers flexibility
3. Combines permanent nature of written comm. with the speed and
dynamism of oral comm.
Digital comm. as a mixed modality (Baym)
4. Asynchronous CMC allows for greater reflection
5. Has egalitarian potential
Limitations of CMC
Reduced cues environment
Limits nonverbal communication
Offers more potential for deception
Offers more potential for misunderstandings
Encourages flaming
Online Disinhibition Effect
(Suler, 2004)
Tendency for people to say and do things in Cyberspace that they
would not ordinarily say and do in face-to-face encounters
Reduced concern for self-presentation and the judgment of others
Factors that contribute to online disinhibition:
Anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and minimization of authority
Online Disinhibition Effect
(Suler, 2004)
Tendency for people to say and do things
in Cyberspace that they would not
ordinarily say and do in face-to-face
encounters
Reduced concern for self-presentation
and the judgment of others
Factors that contribute to online
disinhibition:
Anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and
minimization of authority
Online Disinhibition Effect
(Suler, 2004)
Reflection
In what ways can online disinhibition be problematic?
In what ways can it be positive and/or helpful?
Toxic disinhibition vs. benign disinhibition
Social Media & the Cost of Caring
Does the use of social media, mobile phones, and the internet
cause higher levels of stress? Why or why not?
Social Media and the Cost of Caring
The Pew Research Center surveyed 1,801 adults about their frequency o ...
These slides were part of the kickoff for the Social Computing Collaborative group at the University of Minnesota - Jan. 2011. Each participant presented a single slide as part of their introduction of themselves and their social computing research interest areas.
LIWC2015: Using Word-Based Psychometrics for Research Shalin Hai-Jew
How people use words—in speech, in writing—can reveal a lot about a person. In a research context, computational text analysis may be applied to extract linguistic patterns from people’s language-based expressions. This presentation demonstrations the application of LIWC2015 for psychometric insights in a research context, to surface insights about individuals, shed light on various hypotheses, compare various text-based expressions, and otherwise engage various corpora through psychological measures.
my report in Com 311: Seminar in Cross-Cultural Research at the College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman - PhD Media Studies program
Mining Smartphone Data to Classify Life-Facets of Social Relationships at CSC...Jason Hong
People engage with many overlapping social networks and enact diverse social roles across different facets of their lives. Unfortunately, many online social networking services reduce most people’s contacts to “friend.” A richer computational model of relationships would be useful for a number of applications such as managing privacy settings and organizing communications. In this paper, we take a step towards a richer computational model by using call and text message logs from mobile phones to classifying contacts according to life facet (family, work, and social). We extract various features such as communication intensity, regularity, medium, and temporal tendency, and classify the relationships using machine-learning techniques. Our experimental results on 40 users showed that we could classify life facets with up to 90.5% accuracy. The most relevant features include call duration, channel selection, and time of day for the communication.
Authors are Jun-Ki Min, Jason Wiese, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman
In 2015 I gave a one-day workshop to a group of Technology/Engineering students. How to develop empathy using these practical methods and how to apply empathy in developing technology solutions to people's problems. This workshop can be given to any technology students.
Fostering Engagement with Team-Based Learning (TBL) in Larger Japanese Univer...Brent Jones
This presentation introduces an action research project conducted during the 2020 Fall semester that was aimed at exploring the benefits and challenges to implementing a team-based learning approach in larger online and face-to-face English classes at university in Japan. The participants in this study were a group of fifty-six students enrolled in an elective culture-focused Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) course taught by the presenter. This interactive talk starts with some contextual background, and goes on to outline the mixed-methods research design before offering an overview of how the semester unfolded. Findings and discussion are then provided to highlight key issues related to using TBL in this context. Due to COVID-19, four out of the fifteen class meetings were conducted synchronously on Zoom, and necessary adjustments and lessons learned are also presented. It is hoped that this research might further inspire language teachers in a range of contexts to experiment with team-based learning and other active learning approaches in their language classes.
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The Effects of Chronic Multitasking on Analytical Writing
1. The Effects of Chronic Multitasking
on Analytical Writing
Danielle Lottridge, Christine Rosakranse, Catherine Oh,
Sean Westwood, Katherine Baldoni, Abrey Mann, Cliff Nass
Stanford University Communication Department, CHI 2015
3. media multitasking
!
Is it good or bad for you?
!
• HMM are bad at precisely the tasks at
which one would expect them to be good
[Ophir, 2009]!!!!!
!
•"It remains possible that future tests of
higher-order cognition will uncover
benefits...of heavy media multitasking…”!
!
3
4. RQ: What are the effects of chronic
multitasking and type of
multitasking on writing quality?
• 80 high and low media multitasks
• sessions in groups of 5, for group chat
• GRE essay
• irrelevant and relevant links/comments in
“live forum, synched with another group”
8. Costs of multitasking
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
• The more switches, the less time spent
writing (r = -.528, p<.001)
0-10
11-20
21-30
31-40
41-50
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
NumberofSwitches
Time Spent Writing (Minutes)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Costs of multitaskingCosts of multitasking
9. Costs of multitasking
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
• The more switches, the worse the quality of
writing (r = -.307, p=.006)
NumberofSwitches
0-10
11-20
21-30
31-40
41-50
0 0.75 1.5 2.25 3
Poor High
Writing Quality
Costs of multitaskingCosts of multitasking
10. Costs of multitasking
• HMM spent a quarter of their allotted time
following irrelevant links (almost 7
minutes)
• ….whereas LMM spent only 4.5 minutes,
F[1,79]=6.314, p=.01
Costs of multitaskingCosts of multitasking
11. Poor High
Writing Quality
LMM
HMM
HMM seduced by distractions, helped by relevant links
F[1,79]=4.291, p=.04
irrelevant
!
!
relevant
!
!
irrelevant
!
!
relevant
!
!
!
HMM seduced by distractions,
helped by relevant links
13. Conclusion: Multitasking is both good and bad for you…
13
If you are a chronic
multitasker,
write with relevant
media to do better.
!
Irrelevant media hurts
performance.