Human Communication Process Research Articles

Toward Explainable Multiparty Learning: A Contrastive Knowledge Sharing Framework.

Multiparty learning provides solutions for training joint models with decentralized data under legal and practical constraints. However, traditional multiparty learning approaches are confronted with obstacles, such as system heterogeneity, statistical heterogeneity, and incentive design. Determining how to deal with these challenges and further improve the efficiency and performance of multiparty learning has become an urgent problem to be solved. In this article, we propose a novel contrastive multiparty learning framework for knowledge refinement and sharing with an accountable incentive mechanism. Since the existing parameter averaging method is contradictory to the learning paradigm of neural networks, we simulate the process of human cognition and communication and analogize multiparty learning as a many-to-one knowledge-sharing problem. The approach is capable of integrating the acquired explicit knowledge of each client in a transparent manner without privacy disclosure, and it reduces the dependence on data distribution and communication environments. The proposed scheme achieves significant improvement in model performance in a variety of scenarios, as we demonstrated through experiments on several real-world datasets.

New Digital Divide Shaped by Algorithm? Evidence from Agent-Based Testing on Douyin’s Health-Related Video Recommendation

While recommendation algorithms have significantly empowered human communication process, there is an emerging scholarly and societal concern regarding the potential discrimination inherent in algorithmic decision-making. The present study employs a novel agent-based testing approach to conduct an automated audit of the Douyin algorithm’s recommendations for health-related videos, aiming to investigate its relationship with information inequalities between individuals who are socioeconomically advantaged and disadvantaged. Our findings imply the possible existence of a new digital divide, wherein the algorithm tends to recommend a smaller proportion of authenticated health-related videos on cheap phone models, representing users in low socioeconomic group. Furthermore, this divide was mitigated when both groups demonstrated the same watching strategy for authenticated information. This study implies that recommendation algorithms actively perpetuate and exacerbate discriminatory social structures in reality. We also advocate for increased attention and education among the low socioeconomic group to enhance their health information literacy and understanding of algorithmic mechanisms.

Design of Music Emotion Analysis and Creation Aid System Based on Machine Learning

In human-centric contexts, visual vision plays an increasingly important role in decision making, learning, communication, and situation awareness. Music is a language that conveys emotion to all creatures, including plants and animals. These emotional characteristics are included in the emotion found in music, along with other feelings conveyed via melodies, rhythms, and composer-highlighted moments. Human interaction, communication, decision-making, and cognitive processes are all heavily influenced by emotion. However, Subjective music emotion classification is made more difficult by pure machine classification due to its objectivity; additionally, emotion classification has not reached the same level of accuracy as style classification due to the complex and poorly understood mechanisms underlying how humans perceive music and generate emotions. This manuscript proposes a Multi-Scale Adaptive Graph Neural Network (MSAGNN)optimized with the Remora Optimization Algorithm (ROA) for predicting music emotion MEA-MSAGNN-ROA. Initially data is taken from Music Video Emotion (MVE) dataset Afterward the data is fed to Attribute-based Neural Collaborative Filtering (AbNCF) based pre-processing process. The outcome from the pre-processing data is transferred to the MSAGNN. The music emotions are successfully classified by using MSAGNN are exciting, fear, sad and relaxation. The ROA is used to optimize the weight parameter of MSAGNN. The proposed MEA-MSAGNN-ROA is applied in Python working platform. Performance parameters, like accuracy, precision, sensitivity, F1-score, ROC and recall analyzed to compute proposed approach. The proposed MEA-MSAGNN-ROA approach yields improved results in terms of accuracy (22.46%, 38.58%, 21.74%), sensitivity (21.97%, 33.88%, 25.52%), and precision. reduced computation times of 21.86%, 36.76%, 28.95%, and 81.46%, 95.97%, 86.77%.The proposed MEA-MSAGNN-ROA method is compared with the existing methods such as MEA-CNN, MEA-BPNN, and MEA-FNN, respectively. From the result it is concludes that the proposed MEA-MSAGNN-ROA method based accuracy is higher than the existing methods.

Eliminating Non-Value-Added Activities and Optimizing Manufacturing Processes Using Process Mining: A Stock of Challenges for Family SMEs

Family small and medium enterprises (FSMEs) differ from non-family SMEs regarding leadership type, human resource management practices, innovation orientation, change management, information and communication technology deployment, process maturity, and resource availability. These differences present challenges when leading any change. Process mining (PM) tools can optimize process value and eliminate non-added-value activities in FSMEs based on “Event Logs”. The present study investigates how a PM project is implemented in an FSME operating in the agri-food sector, focusing on challenges faced in every project phase to extract the most appropriate process that eliminates all sources of waste and bottleneck cases. Drawing upon the L*Lifecycle methodology combined with quality and lean management tools such as the fishbone diagram, Pareto diagram, and overall equipment efficiency (OEE), this study applied a PM project to a manufacturing process for an FSME operating in the agri-food sector. To achieve theoretical production capacity (TPC) and customer satisfaction, the method was analyzed and optimized using Disco and ProM toolkits. The results analysis using Disco and ProM toolkits gave clues about the organizational and technical causes behind the manufacturing process’s inefficiency. First, OEE showed that the studied FSME is struggling with equipment availability. Then, the implementation of the L*Lifecycle methodology allowed for the identification of five critical causes. An action plan to eliminate causes was proposed to the FSME managers.

Eksistensi Ilmu Komunikasi dalam Kehidupan Manusia

This research seeks to explore the role of communication science in the human experience. It employs a qualitative research approach, which involves presenting data through a series of sentences. The methodology employed in this study is descriptive in nature. The findings of this investigation highlight communication science as a discipline that delves into the principles, theories, and concepts surrounding the human communication process. More precisely, this field investigates the transmission, reception, and comprehension of information by individuals, groups, organizations, and society in various contexts. Communication science serves not only as an academic domain but also as a valuable practical skill deeply integrated into people's daily lives. Its presence assists individuals in comprehending, enhancing, and deepening their interactions with the world. Communication science holds significant importance in human existence because communication is the primary means by which humans connect, exchanging ideas, experiences, and emotions. The subsequent points emphasize why the significance of communication science in human life cannot be overstated: It aids in fostering and sustaining healthy interpersonal relationships and helps individuals comprehend the influence of mass media on thought patterns, behavior, and perceptions.

A Closer Look at the Human Communication Processes

The study of Human communication is a wide field dedicated to understanding how humans communicate. As the widely accepted adage “We cannot communicate “Shows, Humans' ability to communicate with one another would not be possible without understanding what we are thinking about or what message we want to pass on to one another. Because humans are unable to fully understand one another's perspective, there needs to be a creation of commonality through a shared mindset or viewpoint. The diverse nature of the human communication process has been deeply examined in this write-up to define all aspects of communication for a better understanding, the channels, modes and skills have also been identified.

Human-computer interaction based on background knowledge and emotion certainty.

Aiming at the problems of lack of background knowledge and the inconsistent response of robots in the current human-computer interaction system, we proposed a human-computer interaction model based on a knowledge graph ripple network. The model simulated the natural human communication process to realize a more natural and intelligent human-computer interaction system. This study had three contributions: first, the affective friendliness of human-computer interaction was obtained by calculating the affective evaluation value and the emotional measurement of human-computer interaction. Then, the external knowledge graph was introduced as the background knowledge of the robot, and the conversation entity was embedded into the ripple network of the knowledge graph to obtain the potential entity content of interest of the participant. Finally, the robot replies based on emotional friendliness and content friendliness. The experimental results showed that, compared with the comparison models, the emotional friendliness and coherence of robots with background knowledge and emotional measurement effectively improve the response accuracy by 5.5% at least during human-computer interaction.

Semiotic Approach to the New Perspectives on Inner Speech.

The article aims at identifying the new perspectives on the study of inaudible internal communication, known as inner speech. This is done by addressing the role of semiotic approach in the contemporary studies of inner speech, emphasising the role of contemporary culture in the formation of human inner communication processes, as well as by critically addressing the recent publications that outline the new directions in inner speech research, more specifically "New Perspectives on Inner Speech" edited by Pablo Fossa (2022). The article develops and expands the framework of the new perspectives on inner speech by focusing on such aspects of inner speech research as the language of inner speech, the role of contemporary digital culture in the formation of inner speech and the advances in the recent research methodologies. The discussions established in the article are based on the recent inner speech studies, as well as the author's own diverse experience in researching inner speech within his PhD research (Fadeev, 2022) and his experience at the inner speech research group at the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu.

The Phenomenon of Misunderstanding: A Pragmatic Linguistic Study

Communication is considered the basis of human life, and surely the life of all communities. Both individuals and linguistic groups practice communication. Communication can presumably bring together the members of the human race, as well as human groups. However, in reality, the process of human communication often fails on two levels; among individuals and groups. The main cause that stands behind this failure is a misunderstanding. The results of misunderstanding are not restricted to weakening the process of communication; by weakening the process of interaction during intercourse- or by destroying communication by creating a breakdown between interlocutors- or even by turning the process of communication into a kind of disagreement which can lead to a form of conflict. Misunderstanding can occur as a result of both linguistic and contextual causes which are proportionally responsible for creating misunderstanding in the communicative situation, or otherwise for eliminating the threat of misunderstanding.

Crystal Structure of the Extracellular Domains of GPR110

Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors (aGPCRs) play a pivotal role in human immune responses, cellular communication, organ development, and other processes. GPR110 belongs to the aGPCR subfamily VI and was initially identified as an oncogene involved in lung and prostate cancers. GPR110 contains tandem adhesion domains at the extracellular region that mediate inter-cellular signaling. However, the structural organization and signaling mechanism for these tandem domains remain unclear. Here, we report the crystal structure of a GPR110 fragment composing the SEA, HormR, and GAIN domains at 2.9 Å resolution. The structure together with MD simulations reveal rigid connections between these domains that are stabilized by complementary interfaces. Strikingly, we found N-linked carbohydrates attached to N389 of the GAIN domain form extensive contacts with the preceding HormR domain. These interactions appear to be critical for folding, as removal of the glycosylation site greatly decreases expression of the GPR110 extracellular fragment. We further demonstrate that the ligand synaptamide fits well within the hydrophobic pocket occupied by the Stachel peptide in the rest state. This suggests that the agonist may function by removing the Stachel peptide which in turn redocks to the orthosteric pocket for receptor activation. Taken together, our structural findings and analyses provide novel insights into the activation mechanism for aGPCRs.

Intelligenсe architectonics methodology: international language training of students

The intelligence architectonics methodology refers to personification principles model focused on creating the conditions for widening boundaries of language potential of a student in terms of intercultural communication based on emotional balance and comfort as well as intellectual capacity and ability development via varied activities in all stages of the human speech communication process within the “chain” of educational programs – at school, university, and at In-service institutions for specialists based on recurrent education. Given the intricacy of the dynamic communication process and its fundamental importance in human intercultural communication, this survey is intended to provide a comprehensive model of speech dynamics priority for addressing the following issues – how to consider the cultural paradigm that reads “from observation to generalization and replication through cooperation”. Special emphasis is on the social significance of language and cultural mission of educational organizations in the aspect of modeling the corpus of life-based integrative communicative situations in the security education and information space. In this regard the main principles of language education via teaching intercultural communication are in need of thorough investigation of the analysis-synthesis activities within the dynamic intellect and culture development.

Brain Communication: A system where to investigate and re-engineer human communication and learning processes.

A method for detecting and monitoring the long-term time course of brain processes is described for two different conditions: i) A abbreviated version of a visual problem-solving IQ (Intelligent Quotient) Raven test and ii) A perceptual video task consisting of watching a sequence of (3 minutes each) 5 movie genera: animation, war, romance, violence and thriller. The method consisted of the analysis of the grayscale pixel values of the spectrographic image, generated by a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), applied over the amplitude v/s time domain of the electroencephalographic (EEG) signal recorded during the execution of the test/task.Results show a high-resolution tool for detecting and monitoring brain signals in very narrow frequency range (0,05 Hz) and time (100 ms). Subject-dependent individual differences (N=5) are evident and a number up to 10 frequency communication channels can be detected in narrow frequency range of 0,5 Hz. Combining both aspects of these tool, high resolution of the frequency range, and the subject-dependent individual differences found in the execution of the test/task, we plan to use this information to classify subjects according problem-solving and perceptual brain processing differences and learning preferences.

ЛЮДИНА, ЯК ДЖЕРЕЛО ІНФОРМАЦІЇ ДЛЯ ПРИВАТНОГО ДЕТЕКТИВА

Man is a key link in the system of information sources. G. Lazutina proposes the American scientific tradition, where it is classified as a "living source", and in this - not only the direct meaning: man - the subject of activity, it is included in natural and social processes by many connections and therefore as a source of information is inexhaustible. " Indeed, a person, on the one hand - a witness or participant in events that occur around us and therefore acts as a carrier of information about these events. On the other hand, she is the holder of information about herself, about her inner, unique world. Finally, it is a translator of information received from others. The job of a private detective is that by the nature of his activity he learns some information directly from a person. The peculiarity of this source of information is that it may or may not be open to a private detective: as a social being, he himself programs his behavior, it is necessary to consider every detective who works with this source of information. So the most important thing for a detective is to work properly with the source of information, especially with such as a person. The most important thing is the art of psychological communication, with which, even in the most critical situations, without hurting a person's feelings, you can get the right information. Therefore, the art of speaking, as well as the psychology of communication are very important skills in the detective profession. Knowledge, and the main skill of application of this science in practice allows to receive the maximum return from work, as well as to get skills of "perfect behavior". The psychology of communication gives not only an understanding of people's behavior, but also the way of thinking, the process of human communication with himself and other people. Psychological analysis of professional actions is possible by observing the work at the stages of communication with partners.

Intrapersonal synchrony analysis reveals a weaker temporal coherence between gaze and gestures in adults with autism spectrum disorder

The temporal encoding of nonverbal signals within individuals, referred to as intrapersonal synchrony (IaPS), is an implicit process and essential feature of human communication. Based on existing evidence, IaPS is thought to be a marker of nonverbal behavior characteristics in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), but there is a lack of empirical evidence. The aim of this study was to quantify IaPS in adults during an experimentally controlled real-life interaction task. A sample of adults with a confirmed ASD diagnosis and a matched sample of typically-developed adults were tested (N = 48). Participants were required to indicate the appearance of a target invisible to their interaction partner nonverbally through gaze and pointing gestures. Special eye-tracking software allowed automated extraction of temporal delays between nonverbal signals and their intrapersonal variability with millisecond temporal resolution as indices for IaPS. Likelihood ratio tests of multilevel models showed enlarged delays between nonverbal signals in ASD. Larger delays were associated with greater intrapersonal variability in delays. The results provide a quantitative constraint on nonverbal temporality in typically-developed adults and suggest weaker temporal coherence between nonverbal signals in adults with ASD. The results provide a potential diagnostic marker and inspire predictive coding theories about the role of IaPS in interpersonal synchronization processes.

Rethinking Communication in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

AbstractThis article introduces the special issue of Human Communication Research (HCR) exploring the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in communication. It situates the six articles in this issue along conceptual dimensions drawn from human–computer interaction (HCI) and computer-mediated communication (CMC) research. It also underscores the importance of typologizing AI’s involvement in human communication by building on traditional distinctions such as mass versus interpersonal communication. In doing so, it describes how AI can fulfill analogous roles as either communicator or mediator in both contexts. This article also discusses the six articles and draws out common themes, most notably the tension between human agency and machine agency caused by the arrival of AI. It concludes by expressing optimism for the discovery of new concepts, frameworks and issues as we study both the positive and negative influences of AI on the process and effects of human communication.

The notion of ‘information’ in genetics: a pragmatic model

ABSTRACT In this paper I suggest a pragmatic model for the notion of ‘information’ used in molecular biology in the description of protein synthesis. Discarding any ontological commitments of the term ‘information’, I propose a view of information based on an analogy with communication. This view could at least supplement the existing information-metaphor that should be updated for two reasons: (i) the concept of information it presupposes, and (ii) the origin of the metaphor itself. Besides, the metaphorical nature of the notion of ‘information’ is still often overlooked, which leads to a false sense of understanding of the underlying genetic phenomena it should describe. The advantages of a model based on communication, as it is seen by the field of pragmatics, is twofold: (i) it provides a rather simple analogy between human communication and basic genetic processes, and (ii) it supplies the tools for the understanding of the non-literal use of the term ‘information’.

Perceptions of provincial and district level managers\u2019 on the policy implementation of school oral health in South Africa

BackgroundAlthough school oral health programmes have been ongoing for years, there is little evidence to show how their policy elements are governed or translated into tangible implementation activities and population outcomes at the district level. The need for such a study is heightened by the persistent burden of oral health conditions and unmet oral treatment needs of South Africa’s children. This study therefore sought to describe provincial and district level managers’ perceptions of school oral health policy, and to identify gaps and conditions needed for successful policy implementation.MethodsThis was an exploratory qualitative study where eight oral health managers from the Gauteng provincial and district offices were purposively sampled. Data were collected using interviews and a policy review rubric. The 10 Siddiqi governance principles framework was used to guide the data analysis.ResultsThe managers’ perceptions and the policy document review indicated that national policy covered the principles of strategic vision, responsiveness to health needs, equity and inclusivity with clarity; however these principles were not translated consistently by the managers at a local level. Policy gaps were identified in the areas of stakeholder involvement, accountability, reliable information systems and ethical guidelines. Much of the gaps in policy translation were attributed to inadequate human resources and poor communication processes by the national leadership to support district level implementation.ConclusionsThere were inconsistencies in policy awareness and translation in the districts and hence an in-depth review of the policy translation gaps is paramount to its efficient resolution in the context of resource and capacity limitations. Furthermore, optimizing multi-sectoral participation and identifying shared, novel and practical solutions to policy translation impediments is necessary.

An Augmented Infocommunication Model for Unified Communications in Situational Contexts of Collaboration

Aim/Purpose: In this work, the authors propose an augmented model for human-centered Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) product design and evaluation, which is supported by previous theoretical work. Background: Although the goal of implementing UC&C in an organization is to promote and mediate group dynamics, increasing overall productivity and collaboration; it does not seem to provide a solution for effective communication. It is clear that there is still a lack of consideration for human communication processes in the development of such products. Methodology: This paper is sustained by existing research to propose and test the application of an augmented model capable of supporting the design, development and evaluation of UC&C services that can be driven by the human communication process. To test the application of the augmented model in UC&C service development, a proof-of-concept mobile prototype was elaborated upon and evaluated, making use of User Experience (UX) and user-centred methods and techniques. A total of nine testing sessions were carried out in an organizational communication setup and recorded with eye tracking technology. Contribution: The authors argue that UC&C services should look at the user’s (human) natural processes to improve effective infocommunication and thus enhance collaboration. Authors believe this augmented version of the model will pave the way improving the research and development of useful and practical infocommunication products, capable of truly serving users’ needs. Findings: On evaluation of the prototype, qualitative data analysis uncovered structural problems in the proposed prototype which hindered the augmented model’s elements and subsequently, the user experience. Five out of eighteen identified interaction issues are highlighted in this paper to demonstrate the proposed augmented model’s validity, applied in UC&C services evaluation. Recommendations for Practitioners: Considering and respecting the user’s natural communication processes, practitioners should be able to propose and develop innovative solutions that truly enable and empower effective organizational collaboration. UC&C functionalities should be designed, taking the augmented model’s proposed elements and their pertinence in representing the human interpersonal communication phenomena into consideration, namely: Social Presence; Immediacy of Communication; Concurrency and Synchronicity. Recommendation for Researchers: This paper intends to demonstrate that the adoption and use of UTAUT technology characteristics, in conjunction with Synchronicity proposition, can be considered as a reference for human-centric design and the evaluation of UC&C systems. Impact on Society: To highlight the need to develop further research on this important topic of human collaboration mediated by technology inside organizations. Future Research: This research focused its attention on communication functionalities. However, collaboration can potentially be affected by other services that may be included in a UC&C system, such as scheduling, meetings or task management. Future research could consider employing this augmented model to evaluate such systems or proof-of-concept prototypes.

WAYS OF RENDERING HUMOROUS EFFECT IN THE TARGET TEXT based on D. Nuhr’s work «Das Geheimnis des perfekten Tages»

The article studies humor in D. Nuhr’s work «Das Geheimnis des perfekten Tages», the ways of its expression, as well as the specificity and variety of German humor. It highlights the main ways of rendering the humorous effect in the process of translation from German into Ukrainian. Humor is a complicated and wide-spread phenomenon of our life, and, therefore, it is investigated in different branches of science. The cognitive abilities of a person enable them to comprehend and create the comic, and these abilities are based on memories, associations and comprehension of metameanings. Being a multifaceted category, humor cannot exist beyond a communicative situation created by a person, and, that is why discourse as a process of natural human communication has become an object of thorough research in the modern language studies. Verbal ways of making the humorous effect in the above-mentioned type of discourse are varied and the effect is produced by using these ways at different language levels. The most common means of producing comic and humorous effects in D. Nuhr’s works are such stylistic devices as metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, etc. Dieter Nuhr is a representative of the German mentality, which is characterized by certain traits. These characteristic features include: pedantry, law obedience, excessive cleanliness and excessive frugality, which are ridiculed in the works of Dieter Nuhr. The author’s irony is a difficult subject for linguistic study, as it is one of the types of the comic category and it is represented by a large number of stylistic means and objects of ridicule, for decoding which the researcher needs to have not only background knowledge, but also good orientation in modern German discourse. A linguocultural study of German humor based on the texts of Dieter Nuhr is carried out with the aim of developing ways of interpreting it for representatives of foreign cultures.

VERBAL MEANS AND WAYS OF HUMOROUS AND COMIC EFFECT ACTUALIZATION IN AMERICAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

The article is devoted to the problem of linguistic actualization of humorous and comic effects in American political discourse. Humour is a complicated and wide-spread phenomenon of our life, and that is why it is studied in different branches of science: psychology, philosophy, sociology. Linguistics also has made a great contribution to humour research focusing on different aspects and on cognitive one in particular. Using such notions of cognitive linguistics as schemes, frames, scripts, cognitive models makes us understand mental processes of humour, particularly its formation during our brain identification of cognitive structures. Just cognitive abilities of a person enables them to comprehend and create the comic, and these abilities are based on memories, associations, comprehension of metameanings. Being a multifaceted category humour cannot exist beyond a communicative situation created by a person that is why discourse as a process of natural human communication has become an object of thorough research in modern language studies. One of the widespread ways of humour actualization is creating speech structures which, on the other hand, show the result of a person’s discursive activity. At the same time they make it possible to appraise the individual peculiarities of their сreator communicative competence, their latent processes of language consciousness. Verbal ways of making the humorous in the above-mentioned type of discourse are different and the effect is produced by using these ways at different language levels (lexical, phonetic) as authors do their best to produce a powerful effect. The сommonest means of producing comic and humorous effects in American political discourse are: 1.figures of speech (metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole) 2.using comparison 3.using phonetic means.