Conversation analysis at work: Detection of conflict in competitive discussions through semi-automatic turn-organization analysis

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2012, Pages

  Pesarin, Anna ^a   Cristani, AMarco ^a,b   Murino, AVittorio ^a,b   Vinciarelli, AAlessandro ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conflict detection turn organization; Generative score space; Social signal processing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPETITIVE DISCUSSION; CONFLICT; CONVERSATION; CONVERSATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TURN ORGANIZATION ANALYSIS; WORKPLACE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMMUNICATION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISSENT AND DISPUTES; HUMANS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH;

EID: 84874448862     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-011-0417-9     Document Type: Article

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