ABSTRACT

Using data taken from a major European Union funded project on speech understanding, the SunDial project, this book considers current perspectives on human computer interaction and argues for the value of an approach taken from sociology which is based on conversation analysis.

chapter 1|12 pages

Sociology and Human–Machine Dialogue

chapter 3|17 pages

The Surrey WOZ Simulation Procedure

chapter 4|13 pages

Conversation Analysis

chapter 5|27 pages

Getting Started

Opening sequences in the BA and WOZ corpora

chapter 6|32 pages

Turn-Taking, Overlaps and Closings

chapter 8|20 pages

Some Repair Strategies Analysed