Acquiring and analyzing back-channels

Abstract

The communication is the component necessarily for all the activities such as the social

cohesion, the education, the commercial and the service. It appears in different

environment from the working place to the university, and it is absolutely indispensable

in the link between the individual with the family, the friends, the colleges or the

managers. The power of communication is improved with the feedback such as backchannels,

which include not the information that is being changed, but the management

of the communication and the expression of attitude and intention. To develop more

helpful of education or commercial through Group discussion, team work, etc. The

investigation of back-channels is absolutely essential. In this project, I introduce a

method for acquisition the back-channels in English and analyzing of the back-channels

in the form of audio signals. This project also involves the annotations of back-channels

to allow more information to classification the back-channels.