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- Bergh, Ingrid, 1956, et al.
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Descriptions of pain in elderly patients following orthopaedic surgery.
- 2005
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Ingår i: Scandinavian journal of caring sciences. - : Wiley. - 0283-9318 .- 1471-6712. ; 19:2, s. 110-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aims of this study were to investigate what words elderly patients, who had undergone hip surgery, used to describe their experience of pain in spoken language and to compare these words with those used in the Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) and Pain-O-Meter (POM). The study was carried out at two orthopaedic and two geriatric clinical departments at a large university hospital in Sweden. Altogether, 60 patients (mean age =77) who had undergone orthopaedic surgery took part in the study. A face-to-face interview was conducted with each patient on the second day after the operation. This was divided into two parts, one tape-recorded and semi-structured in character and one structured interview. The results show that a majority of the elderly patients who participated in this study verbally stated pain and spontaneously used a majority of the words found in the SF-MPQ and in the POM. The patients also used a number of additional words not found in the SF-MPQ or the POM. Among those patients who did not use any of the words in the SF-MPQ and the POM, the use of the three additional words 'stel' (stiff), 'hemsk' (awful) and 'rad(d)(sla)' (afraid/fear) were especially marked. The patients also combined the words with a negation to describe what pain was not. To achieve a more balanced and nuanced description of the patient's pain and to make it easier for the patients to talk about their pain, there is a need for access to a set of predefined words that describe pain from a more multidimensional perspective than just intensity. If the elderly patient is allowed, and finds it necessary, to use his/her own words to describe what pain is but also to describe what pain is not, by combining the words with a negation, then the risk of the patient being forced to choose words that do not fully correspond to their pain can be reduced. If so, pain scales such as the SF-MPQ and the POM can create a communicative bridge between the elderly patient and health care professionals in the pain evaluation process.
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- Allwood, Jens, 1947, et al.
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The Analysis of Embodied Communicative Feedback in Multimodal Corpora - a prerequisite for behavior simulation.
- 2008
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Ingår i: Language Resources and Evaluation. - : Springer Netherlands. - 1574-020X .- 1574-0218 .- 1572-8412. ; 41:3-4, s. 255-272
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Communicative feedback refers to unobtrusive (usually short) vocal or bodily expressions whereby a recipient of information can inform a contributor of information about whether he/she is able and willing to communicate, perceive the information, and understand the information. This paper provides a theory for embodied communicative feedback, describing the different dimensions and features involved. It also provides a corpus analysis part, describing a first data coding and analysis method geared to find the features postulated by the theory. The corpus analysis part describes different methods and statistical procedures and discusses their applicability and the possible insights gained with these methods.
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- Allwood, Jens, 1947
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Bodily Communication Dimensions of Expression and Content
- 2002
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Ingår i: In: Björn Granström, David House & Inger Karlsson (eds.) Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. - Dordrecht : Springer. - 1402006357 ; , s. 7-26
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- Allwood, Jens, 1947
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Cognition, communication, and readiness for language
- 2012
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Ingår i: Pragmatics & Cognition. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 0929-0907 .- 1569-9943. ; 20:2, s. 334-355
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This review article discusses some problems and needs for clarification that are connected with the use of the concepts culture, language, tool, and communication in Daniel Everett's recently published book, Language: The Cultural Tool. It also discusses whether the idea of biological readiness and preparedness for language (rather than grammar) can really be disposed of as a result of Everett's very convincing arguments against a specific genetic predisposition for the syntactic component of a grammar. Finally, it calls into question whether Everett really is true to his professed ideology of scientific ideographical pragmatism.
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- Allwood, Jens, 1947, et al.
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Intercultural Dynamics of First Acquaintance: Comparative Study of Swedish, Chinese and Swedish-Chinese First Time Encounters
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Ingår i: C. Stephanidis (Ed.): Universal Access in HCI, Part IV, 2011, LNCS 6768. Springer-VErlag, Berlin Heidelberg.. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg. - 0302-9743. ; 6768, s. 12-21, s. 12-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Today, intercultural first acquaintance meetings are becoming more and more frequent. The aim of this study is to describe, analyze and compare Swedish, Chinese and Swedish-Chinese first acquaintance interactions. Our focus lies on a classification of the topics in mono- and intercultural first-time encounters. The analysis is based on 12 arranged face-to-face first acquaintance interactions between Chinese-Chinese, Swedish-Swedish and Swedish-Chinese students (4 of each dyad). The interactions are video-recorded and transcribed. In addition, semi-structured interviews with the participants have been conducted to get a better understanding of their communication. The method of activity-based communication analysis is used to analyze the data. The result of the study is a classification and a cross-cultural comparison of topics and the order of their occurrence in first time encounters. In addition, the study sheds light on the similarities and differences between Chinese and Swedish communication patterns.
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- Allwood, Jens, 1947
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Language Survival Kits
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Ingår i: Lesser-known Languages of South Asia. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin/New York.. - Berlin : Walter de Gruyter. ; , s. 279-292
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- Kopp, Stefan, et al.
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Modeling Embodied Feedback with Virtual Humans
- 2008
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Ingår i: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. - Berlin : Springer. ; 4930, s. 18-37, s. 18-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In natural communication, both speakers and listeners are active most of the time. While a speaker contributes new information, a listener gives feedback by producing unobtrusive (usually short) vocal or non-vocal bodily expressions to indicate whether he/she is able and willing to communicate, perceive, and understand the information, and what emotions and attitudes are triggered by this information. The simulation of feedback behavior for artificial conversational agents poses big challenges such as the concurrent and integrated perception and production of multi-modal and multi-functional expressions. We present an approach on modeling feedback for and with virtual humans, based on an approach to study “embodied feedback” as a special case of a more general theoretical account of embodied communication. A realization of this approach with the virtual human Max is described and results are presented.
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