Multilingual Socio-Emotional Communication Support for Improving Foreign Student Adjustment and Mental Health Outcomes
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18K18085
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 61020:Human interface and interaction-related
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
Hautasaari Ari 東京大学, 大学院情報学環・学際情報学府, 特任准教授 (70752236)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | computer-mediated / socio-emotional / multilingual / text-based communication / paralinguistic cues / socio emotional / communication / Foreign student / Mental health / Multilingual / Socio-emotional / CMC |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Novel systems to convey emotional information in text-based communication were developed with a goal to support socio-emotional information exchange, interpersonal relationship building and the exchange of emotional and social support in text-based mediums for foreign students. In the first iteration of the system design, emotional Western typefaces are used to convey emotional valence in text-based messages by automatically detecting the emotional information from text.
The approach taken in the second iteration of system development was to design an automated method to generate unique speech balloons that match and convey a message sender's level of emotional arousal to the receiver. The system design was first introduced in IPSJ INTERACTION as a Premium Track presentation. The results from evaluation experiments confirming the efficacy of the approach were disseminated in a top international conference publication, CHI 2022, where it received the Best Paper Award (top 1%).
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The research results contribute to social information processing (SIP) theory by increasing our understanding on the role and effects of paralinguistic cues in text-based communication. The practical applications can increase quality of text-based multilingual socio-emotional communication.
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Research Products
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