Elizabeth Achatz
Pronouns: she/her
Research Mentor(s): Julie Boland
Co-Presenter: Yates, Blake
Research Mentor School/College/Department: Psychology / LSA
Presentation Date: April 20
Presentation Type: Oral5
Session: Session 2 – 11am – 11:50am
Room: Breakout Room 4
Authors: Julie Boland, Blake Yates, Elizabeth Achatz, Myles Williamson, Pedro Fonseca
Presenter: 1
Abstract
Despite previous research indicating that remote communication (conversation via zoom) may contribute to greater transition times during conversation, further research was necessary to confirm these results with an improved format of conversation topic. Previous experiments included one study based on yes or no questions, and another based on pop culture. In both of these studies, the remote condition yielded significantly longer transition times, however, both of these studies were limited by the amount of control (or lack thereof) over the conversation being had by participants. In this experiment, forty college students participated in this experiment, grouped together into twenty dyads. They were then given a pair of maps, with a total of ten locations. Each one map had five of the locations, and the other map had the missing five. The participants were then asked to communicate to each other the locations and names of the items on their maps. Their conversations were recorded under both the remote condition, and the local (in person) condition. The recordings were then transcribed in Praat, and then data coded and analyzed for transition times, speech rate, number of words, and rate of utterance-initial disfluencies. We found that transition times were significantly longer for the remote condition, and speech rate was significantly higher in the local condition than in the remote condition. Both of these conclusions agree with our hypothesis. Together, these findings may indicate that there may be an increased amount of fatigue during conversions conducted on Zoom compared to in person.
Interdisciplinary, Social Sciences
