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A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers (2016)
Journal Article
Adolphs, S., Clark, L., Ofemile, A., & Rodden, T. (2016). A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 6(4), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1145/2983926

The study of agent helpers using linguistic strategies such as vague language and politeness has often come across obstacles. One of these is the quality of the agent's voice and its lack of appropriate fit for using these strategies. The first appro... Read More about A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers.

‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication (2016)
Journal Article
Mullany, L., Smith, C., Harvey, K., & Adolphs, S. (2016). ‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication. Communication and Medicine, 12(2-3), 211-223. https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.16692

This article explores the communicative choices of adolescents seeking advice from an internet-based health forum run by medical professionals. Techniques from the disciplines of sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics are integrated to examine the s... Read More about ‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication.