Animated agent immediacy and news services with handheld computers

The present study considers the design and implementation of immediacy behaviors for an animated agent and the influence of such an agent on viewers. Immediacy, a widely studied construct in human communication research, is defined as the verbal and nonverbal communication behaviors that enhance physical and psychological closeness between people. In this study, the use of animated agent immediacy with new technology, a handheld computer, was studied as a form of affective computing. The purpose of the study was first to find out whether users perceive the communication behaviors of the agent that were intended to enhance immediacy, second, what effects animated agent immediacy has on evaluations of a news service, and third whether affective learning or recall of news content is related to agent immediacy. The results revealed that communication behaviors that enhance immediacy were perceived by the users. Those behaviors were also related to their perception of immediacy. However, the animated agent immediacy did not have a significant effect on evaluation of the news service. Additionally, agent immediacy had no effect on affective or cognitive learning from the news. The results show that it is possible to construct immediacy behaviors for the animated agents, but in this context the influences differed from those reported in human‐to‐human communication. The possibilities for and consequences of agent immediacy are also discussed, as are the reasons why the effects of immediacy on evaluations and learning were not found in the present study.     

新信息环境下数学文献老化趋势及影响因素新探

借助Web of Science引文数据库,随机选取了SCIE收录的40种数学期刊,对期刊中的文献以及其参考文献和被引记录进行统计分析,考察了数学文献在1960-2009年50年间的老化趋势,并重点分析了网络环境的变化对文献老化的影响。通过对共时法和历时法文献半衰期的计算和分析得出,在互联网环境下文献的绝对老化并未发生,而文献的相对老化速度持续减缓。在发文量、即年指标等基础上,提出了即年影响力和长尾效应等新的信息环境影响因素,并用灰色关联分析的方法定量分析出篇均引文量和长尾效应是影响文献老化速度的最重要因素。     

2007-2012年《情报科学》期刊学术影响力指标分析

以万方数据库数据为依据,运用对比分析法,对《中文核心期刊目录总览》中图书情报类19种核心期刊的来源文献量、即年指标、总被引频次、影响因子、学科扩散指标等8个指标值进行排名和分析,以了解《情报科学》近年各指标状况。建议通过提高稿件学术质量,进一步提高影响因子,扩大《情报科学》的学术影响力。     

Conceptualizing teacher immediacy through the ‘companion’ metaphor

Situated within the critical pedagogic scholarship that deals with the issue of ‘teacher immediacy’, this study proposes an understanding of the practice of pedagogy through the metaphor of ‘companionship’. A friendly individual but not a friend, the instructor is seen here as someone who can connect to college-age students without any visible effort and someone who makes explicit use of the power dynamics in a classroom to foster academic excellence. The companion model is first compared to other pedagogical models that are conceptualized through metaphors (e.g. in loco parentis, ‘teacher-as-entertainer’) and is then evaluated in terms of its potential weaknesses.     

Teacher immediacy: reflections on a peer review of teaching scheme

Using a qualitative approach drawing on the experiences of four HE lecturers, this study provides an exploration of and insights into a peer review of teaching (PRT) scheme, which focused on teacher immediacy and communication skills. Within the United Kingdom, limited research has been undertaken in relation to teacher immediacy even though international research, particularly in the United States, suggests it enhances lecturer–student interaction.

The study identified three key factors that can enhance teaching through the development of immediacy skills. These were: voice and verbal qualities; body language; and location in the teaching space and environmental factors. This article suggests that, based on the evidence from the four lecturers, any PRT scheme that wishes to focus upon enhancing teacher effectiveness should consider addressing these themes in order to facilitate enhanced lecturer–student interaction.     

The Importance of Forgetting ‘Perishing’ in Whitehead’s Cosmology and Epistemology

In this paper, I will address a constructive criticism of the papers that appeared as a Symposium on Whitehead’s Process Philosophy of Education (Interchange, 26(4), pp. 341–415, 1995). In his criticism of those papers, George Allan (1998) claimed that the contributors to the Symposium were not as Whiteheadian as they thought they were because they failed to contextualize their papers in the harmony and holism of Whitehead’s organic philosophy. Allan thought, in essence, that we had committed a fallacy of misplaced concreteness. Ironically, this is exactly what we had been trying to avoid. With regards to my paper, Allan felt that I had failed to explain the importance of perishing for Whitehead in the becoming and objective immortality of the superject of experience. Hopefully, I have done a better job of this in what follows. I would also like to begin exploring the implications of Whitehead’s cosmology and epistemology for the advance of theory in psychology. On a pleasant afternoon in Oulu, Finland I was discussing the ideas presented here with my friend Hannu Soini who said to me, “when one is learning it is important to forget certain things so they do not impede our creativity.” Hence, the title of this paper and a further exploration of the concepts that Hannu and I feel are impeding the advance of psychology. I would like to preface with a reminder that when I try to explain Whitehead’s philosophy succinctly I sometimes fail to explain things well. His is a truly organic conception of reality so please forgive me.     

微博与图书馆网站互动平台的整合

微博作为一种新兴的信息互动交流平台,已被越来越多的图书馆所使用;而网站作为图书馆传统的宣传与互动交流主平台,应与微博进行有效的整合,以期取得效益的最大化。文章讨论了微博与图书馆网站互动平台整合的需求性与可行性,以实例形式阐述了实现整合的方式、方法,并提出了整合配置过程中需要注意的一些问题。     

Immediate and delayed effects of interest cues and engagement cues on students' affective learning

This experiment tested the effects of teacher immediacy, use of organizational lecture cues, and stuaent notetaking on students’ affective learning both immediately and one week after viewing an experimentally manipulated lecture. Results of the experiment suggested that teacher immediacy had the greatest effect on student affect and that this effect was stable over time. Additionally, an interaction was detected where students viewing the lectures with high immediacy but without organizational cues had sharper declines in affect than students viewing the high immediacy/with cues lectures.     

教师亲切性:有效教学的重要变量——美国关于教师课堂沟通行为的微观研究

教师亲切性是指那些缩小师生之间物理和心理距离的教师言语和非言语沟通行为。该领域的研究主要集中于教师亲切性的含义、结构与测量、作用等方面。大量研究表明,教师亲切性与学生学习结果、学习动机、学生对教师的评价、学生心目中的教师信誉度之间均存在正相关,并与若干结果变量之间存在因果关系。     

2009年我国图书情报类19种核心期刊的主要计量指标分析

期刊的计量指标是指那些可以用来衡量和评价刊物实力的量化指标,它不但影响到期刊的学术地位,而且影响到期刊的生存。据2010年统计,我国共有41种图书情报类期刊,其中有19种核心期刊,本文着重对19种核心期刊的主要计量指标进行统计分析,以期同行对这些刊物有进一步的了解,并使我们明确自己刊物的发展方向和奋斗目标。