Small group conversations: communication behaviour and success

Raluca Nicoras; Lauren V. Hadley; Karolina Smeds; Rosa-Linde Fischer; Matthew Godfrey; Bryony Buck; Graham Naylor

doi:10.61782/fa.2023.0797

Small group conversations: communication behaviour and success

Raluca Nicoras (Lead / Corresponding author), Lauren V. Hadley, Karolina Smeds, Rosa-Linde Fischer, Matthew Godfrey, Bryony Buck, Graham Naylor

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Everybody wants to experience success in their conversations. Conversing successfully in groups is a fundamental aspect of human interaction that is essential for building relationships, sharing knowledge, and achieving goals. However, engaging in group conversations can be challenging for people with impaired hearing. In this talk, I begin by describing how the concept of conversation success is viewed by people with normal (NH) and impaired hearing (IH). I will then explore some behaviours observed in successful versus unsuccessful conversations emerging from a face-to-face conversation experiment involving 18 groups of 4 people (quartets). Each quartet was composed of two people with NH and two with IH that held six conversations in low, medium, and high levels of background noise. Participants with impaired hearing wore their own hearing aids binaurally and they were unaided in half of the conversations. This talk will focus on vocal activity data, such as silence distributions, and shared laughter recorded in synchrony with continuous participant feedback. The findings will provide insight into the perception of conversation success and the communication behaviours linked to it.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023
Editors	Arianna Astolfi, Francesco Asdrubali, Louena Shtrepi
Publisher	European Acoustics Association, EAA
Pages	2413-2416
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9788888942674
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0797
Publication status	Published - Sept 2023
Event	Forum Acusticum 2023, the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association - Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy Duration: 11 Sept 2023 → 15 Sept 2023 Conference number: 10th https://www.fa2023.org/ (Forum Acusticum 2023 - conference information website)

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Name	Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023
Publisher	European Acoustics Association, EAA
ISSN (Print)	2221-3767

Conference

Conference	Forum Acusticum 2023, the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association
Abbreviated title	Forum Acusticum 2023
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Torino
Period	11/09/23 → 15/09/23
Internet address	https://www.fa2023.org/ (Forum Acusticum 2023 - conference information website)

Keywords

conversation success
group conversation
hearing loss

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Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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Nicoras, R., Hadley, L. V., Smeds, K., Fischer, R.-L., Godfrey, M., Buck, B., & Naylor, G. (2023). Small group conversations: communication behaviour and success. In A. Astolfi, F. Asdrubali, & L. Shtrepi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023 (pp. 2413-2416). (Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023). European Acoustics Association, EAA. https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0797

Nicoras, Raluca ; Hadley, Lauren V. ; Smeds, Karolina et al. / Small group conversations : communication behaviour and success. Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023. editor / Arianna Astolfi ; Francesco Asdrubali ; Louena Shtrepi. European Acoustics Association, EAA, 2023. pp. 2413-2416 (Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023).

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Nicoras, R, Hadley, LV, Smeds, K, Fischer, R-L, Godfrey, M, Buck, B & Naylor, G 2023, Small group conversations: communication behaviour and success. in A Astolfi, F Asdrubali & L Shtrepi (eds), Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023. Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023, European Acoustics Association, EAA, pp. 2413-2416, Forum Acusticum 2023, the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Torino, Italy, 11/09/23. https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0797

Small group conversations: communication behaviour and success. / Nicoras, Raluca (Lead / Corresponding author); Hadley, Lauren V.; Smeds, Karolina et al.
Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023. ed. / Arianna Astolfi; Francesco Asdrubali; Louena Shtrepi. European Acoustics Association, EAA, 2023. p. 2413-2416 (Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023).

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Nicoras R, Hadley LV, Smeds K, Fischer RL, Godfrey M, Buck B et al. Small group conversations: communication behaviour and success. In Astolfi A, Asdrubali F, Shtrepi L, editors, Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023. European Acoustics Association, EAA. 2023. p. 2413-2416. (Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023). doi: 10.61782/fa.2023.0797

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