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Narratives in health communication –a multi-disciplinary approach to strengthen understanding of the roles and uses of narratives in conveying health information and changing health behaviors (HealthNar)
Date du début: 1 mai 2014, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2017,
Narratives play an increasingly important role in (online) communication about health issues. News reporters not only report the cold facts about an upcoming epidemic, but also increasingly employ techniques that are used in novels and movies; serious games use interactive storytelling techniques to improve the health of children; health campaigns use celebrities and role models in order to convin ...
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The challenge of reduced pronunciation variants in conversational speech for foreign language listeners: experimental research and computational modeling (ForeignCasualSpeech)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2012, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,
"In today's Europe, people from different nationalities often collaborate, and, therefore have to learn to communicate in a foreign language. After several years of classes, learners are quite able to follow radio programs with clearly speaking presenters and to maintain calm conversations in the foreign language. In contrast, these learners still have great difficulties understanding everyday cas ...
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How do words inform? Explaining the role of information theory in language comprehension (WORDINFO)
Date du début: 1 mars 2013, Date de fin: 29 févr. 2016,
Cognition is often said to arise from information processing. Indeed, information theory has been applied to explain aspects of human cognition, such as fluctuations in cognitive load during reading: By computing how much information each word conveys, it can be shown that reading more informative words takes longer, and leads to dilation of the reader’s pupils. However, it is as yet unclear how t ...
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Effective Communication in Outbreak Management: development of an evidence-based tool for Europe (E-COM@EU)
Date du début: 1 févr. 2012, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2016,
Although scientific knowledge to respond to outbreaks has increased, deficiencies remain in the ability of health authorities to communicate the need for large-scale measures such as vaccination and antiviral therapy and increase its acceptance. For effective behavioural and communication strategies, integration is needed of social, behavioural, communication and media sciences.We bring together t ...
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