As novas demandas de públicos solicitam relacionamentos contíguos com gestores, dirigentes e representantes formais das organizações nas relações entre elas e as comunidades participantes de sua rede de relacionamentos. A pesquisa conduzida neste estudo projeta indicativos sobre modos e usos da oralidade na comunicação com empregados e delineia um elenco de posturas verificadas entre gestores que adotam a oralidade como estratégia relacional com suas equipes. Busca identificar e dimensionar o emprego de postulados da oralidade para compreender em que grau lhes pode ser conferido um caráter estratégico quando se trata de atingir resultados e agilizar processos de comunicação com público interno. O corpus empírico foi constituído no ambiente da comunicação interna de uma empresa pública, Embrapa Soja, na unidade localizada em Londrina-PR, uma das 47 unidades de pesquisa da estatal Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa. Uma pluralidade de métodos foi adotada como estratégia de pesquisa e orientou os procedimentos de coleta e análise de dados que também foram extraídos e tratados de modo fenomenológico, qualitativo e quantitativo. Quatro eixos temáticos foram estabelecidos com base na fundamentação desse método: comunicação interna, comunicação oral, uso do diálogo e comunicação face a face. A oralidade revelou-se marcante na prática de trabalho dos sujeitos entrevistados, está absorvida em todas as formas de comunicação interna e promove integração entre funcionários e administração. Pelos fortes indicativos de sua influência nos resultados do grupo e seu impacto positivo no relacionamento com o público externo, pode-se afirmar a presença desse componente na cultura organizacional e seu alto teor de contribuição como elemento de gestão estratégica. / New demands on publics require closer relationships with managers, directors and formal representatives of organizations to their connection between themselves and the communities participating in their networking. The research conducted in this study raised indications as to how oral speech is used in the communication with employees and reveals the conducts verified among administrators who adopt oral speech as relational strategy when dealing with their teams. It aims to identify and evaluate the utilization of oral speech postulates in order to understand the degree to which they can be strategically considered when it comes to achieving results and speeding communication processes with the internal public. Data were gathered in the internal communication environment of a public enterprise, the Embrapa Soja, in its unit located in Londrina-PR, one of the 47 research units of the state owned Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa. Miscellaneous procedures were used in the research orientation, with data collection and analysis being treated through phenomenological principles, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Four thematic axes were established within the selected method: internal communication, oral communication, use of dialogue, and face-to-face communication. Oral speech showed prominent in the work practices of the interviewees, it is absorbed in all internal communication actions and fosters integration among employees and administration. Through the strong evidence of its participation in group results and its positive impact on the relationship with external publics, the firm presence of this component in the organizational culture can be stated as well as the high contribution it can provide as element of strategic management.

Este estudo evidencia o modo como se organizam as estratégias de cortesia que se manifestam na ocorrência dos marcadores discursivos pues, ya e claro em intervenções orais de adolescentes de duas capitais, Madri e Santiago do Chile, presentes no Corpus de Lenguaje Adolescente (COLA). Considerando a diversidade sociocultural (Bravo, 2004) e que os marcadores discursivos sinalizam a direção em que se deve buscar a relevância dos enunciados (Escandell-Vidal, 1998), esta pesquisa também analisa se adolescentes brasileiros, estudantes de língua espanhola, da região de São Paulo, constroem uma interpretação adequada quanto à presença ou ausência da cortesia, ao entrar em contato com as conversações do material de análise. Como resultado, foram descritos os contrastes entre as amostras das variedades - a santiaguina e a madrilena - de língua espanhola quanto ao uso das partículas pues, ya e claro. Observou-se que essas diferenças se relacionam ao contexto de enunciação e ao processamento discursivo, semântico e pragmático desses marcadores, comprovando que a cortesia apresenta particularidades e possui um valor relativo de acordo com a interação verbal, os traços culturais e o tipo de relação social entre os interlocutores. Através da escuta de alguns diálogos extraídos do corpus e guiados por um questionário, a maioria dos estudantes brasileiros construiu interpretações equivocadas das formações discursivas. Verificou-se que estas construções de sentido concerniram ao desconhecimento da forma ou do uso dos marcadores, que impediu que estes orientassem o processo de interpretação, e à desconsideração das diferenças interculturais e dos modelos de cortesia em diferentes interações verbais. / This study shows how strategies of politeness occurring when discourse markers are used in oral interventions of teenagers from the two capital cities of Madrid and Santiago de Chile contained in the Corpus de Lenguaje Adolescente (COLA) are organized. Considering the socio-cultural diversity (Bravo, 2004) and discourse markers indicate in which direction we should look for the relevance of utterances (Escandell-Vidal, 1998), this research also analyzes if Brazilian teenagers, students of Spanish language in São Paulo region, have a proper interpretation regarding the presence or the absence of politeness when they are exposed to the conversations of the material analyzed. As a result, the differences between samples of Spanish language varieties from Santiago and from Madrid regarding the use of the particles pues, ya and claro were described. Such differences were seen to be related to the context of enunciation and the discursive, semantic, and pragmatic processing of the markers, which confirms that the politeness shows particularities and has a relative value according to the verbal interaction, cultural traits, and the type of social relationship between interlocutors. By hearing some of the dialogs extracted from the corpus and guided by a questionnaire, most Brazilian students had wrong interpretations of discursive formations. Such constructions of meaning were seen to be related to the lack of knowledge of the markers form or usage, which prevented the markers to guide the interpretation process, and the disregard of intercultural differences and models of politeness in various verbal interactions.

Orientador: José Mario De Martino / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T14:28:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leite_TatianeSilvia_M.pdf: 77678050 bytes, checksum: 402062baa2ae89224527d82c64355abd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: O rosto desempenha um papel importante na comunicação e expressão de emoções. Por ser o cartão de visitas individual e caracterizar a primeira impressão de cada um, sua aparência e seu formato tornam-se alvo de diversos estudos. Um rosto mais atraente é capaz de capturar com maior facilidade não apenas a atenção de quem o observa, como também sua empatia. Nesta linha, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo o desenvolvimento de uma metodologia para manipulação e transformação de imagens fotográficas de faces com a finalidade de aumentar a atratividade destes rostos. Para isso, foram abordados dois aspectos de modificação da face: o geométrico e o de textura da pele do rosto. No contexto deste trabalho, foi construída uma base de imagens de faces. Nas imagens desta base foram identificados pontos de interesse e calculadas distâncias entre eles para a caracterização das proporções da face. Adicionalmente, foi atribuído um grau de atratividade para cada face, a partir de avaliação realizada por um grupo de 40 voluntários. As medidas de proporção e atratividade foram utilizadas, no processo de melhoria geométrica da face, como conjunto de treinamento para os algoritmos de aprendizado de máquina. Como resultado do processamento são geradas novas medidas para o rosto que se deseja tornar mais atraente. Utilizando a técnica de warping, a imagem do rosto de entrada é modificada para as novas medidas encontradas. A imagem resultante deste processo serve como imagem de entrada para o processo de modificação da textura. Neste processamento é gerada uma nova imagem com a cor dos pixels da região de pele do rosto alterada. A principal contribuição deste trabalho consiste em unir o processo de modificação geométrica do rosto à modificação de textura da pele. Esta união resultou em um ganho de atratividade maior do que se estas técnicas fossem utilizadas separadamente. Este ganho foi comprovado com testes de pós-avaliação realizados com voluntários analisando os resultados finais nas imagens / Abstract: The face plays an important role in communication and expression of emotions. Face characterizes the first impression of each person; thus, its appearance and shape became the target of several studies. An attractive face is capable of capturing more easily not only the attention of the beholder, as well as his/her empathy. In this vein, this study aims to develop a methodology for handling and processing of images of faces in order to increase the attractiveness of these faces. It was addressed two aspects of modification of the face: the geometric and texture (considering only the skin of the face). In this work, a large database of face images was built. All these faces were marked with feature points and from them it was taken measures considered interesting to analyze the dimensions and proportions of the faces. Besides that, they were also evaluated according to their degree of attraction by a group of volunteers. This information was used in the enhancement of the face geometry, using machine learning algorithms. At this stage new measures were generated for the input face which is considered in the beautification process. Using the technique of warping, the input face image is warped to fit the new measures found by the algorithms. The resulting image from this process serves as the input image to the process of texture modification. At this stage it is generated a new image with the color of pixels in the region of skin of the face changed. The main contribution of this work is to join the process of face geometry modification with the process of face skin texture modification. The result of this union generates image faces which have greater enhancement of attractiveness than if the processes were used separately. This gain was confirmed by post-evaluation tests conducted with volunteers that analyzed the final results / Mestrado / Engenharia de Computação / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

This paper investigates the use and function of intertextuality in the television series Suits, and examines the interplay between intertextuality and politeness. Intertextuality allows a text to incorporate other texts and to draw upon connotations that belong to those texts. Politeness theory offers a tool to analyse the pragmatic use of language in social interaction. Analysing occurrences of intertextuality from the first episode of the television series, the paper explores in what ways the fictional characters use intertextuality and for what purposes. It explores if, and how, intertextuality can be used as a politeness strategy. Findings suggest that intertextuality is used for three main purposes, and functions as characterisation and as a means to establish and/or maintain social relations. Detailed analyses of instances of intertextuality propose that intertextuality can be used as a politeness theory, but only in certain ways. The paper discusses these findings and offers a possible explanation for why intertextuality is only used in this restricted way.

Denna kandidatuppsats undersöker eventuella risker för person till person kommunikation som kan härstammar i användning av moderna tekniken och de sociala medierna. Syftet är att ta reda på vilka konsekvenser som förekommer när man överkonsumerar modern teknik och diverse sociala medier (t.ex. Facebook, Twitter, instagram och Myspace). Undersökningen kommer sedan ligga till grund för ett gestaltningsarbete där fokusen ligger på att söka en teknik som kan förbättra kommunikationen person till person genom att introducera personer inför ett problem som enbart kan lösas genom person till person kommunikation inom gruppen. / This bachelor thesis examines the potential risks of face to face communication that may occur during the use of modern technology and social media. The aim is to find out what kind of impact may occur when people over consume modern technology and various types of social media (e.g. Facebook, twitter, Instagram and Myspace). The study will then form a base for a digital game witch will focus on finding a way technology can improve communication face to face. The game will introduce the players to a problem that only can be solved by working and communicate with each other.

A face tracker is exactly what it sounds like. It tracks a face in a video sequence. Depending on the complexity of the tracker, it could track the face as a rigid object or as a complete deformable face model with face expressions. This report is based on the work of a real time feature based face tracker. Feature based means that you track certain features in the face, like points with special characteristics. It might be a mouth or eye corner, but theoretically it could be any point. For this tracker, the latter is of interest. Its task is to extract global parameters, i.e. rotation and translation, as well as dynamic facial parameters (expressions) for each frame. It tracks feature points using motion between frames and a textured face model (Candide). It then uses an extended Kalman filter to estimate the parameters from the tracked feature points.

This thesis reports on the results of a quantitative study of various barriers to knowledge sharing in a virtual community of practice within Sigma Kudos, a Swedish multinational organization. The study was undertaken to investigate the under-utilization of a virtual "teamroom". Members' views showed that the biggest barrier involved the way in which people chose to share their knowledge; the respondents preferred sharing knowledge in their existing face-to-face networks. Face-to-face sharing mainly seemed to occur between individuals who had a common ground and shared experiences, and between individuals who were in convenient proximity to each other. Time constraints in combination with perceived lack of intranet site structure implied a redundancy of the teamroom as yet another internal site. Another prominent set of barriers that emerged from the findings was related to aspects of uncertainty and unfamiliarity with the teamroom. Additionally, survey comments revealed the use of teamroom features to be a barrier. To enable co-evolved knowledge structures to occur via the community, it is necessary for management to understand face-to-face sharing behavior in terms of implicit and tacit knowledge. It is vital to change the perception of teamroom sharing as an extra task requiring more time. Moreover, the teamroom needs to be distinguished in context of the greater intranet structure, as well as when it comes to the different sections of the community itself. To foster knowledge sharing in the teamroom, it is also important to define and communicate the strategic meaning of it.

Chatroom conversations often elicit an initial impression of chaos. This is probably chiefly due to disrupted adjacency sequences, but also a result of the language being rich in non-standard linguistic forms and grammar. This study explores chatroom conversations with reference to Grice’s (1975) cooperative principle and the maxims that accompany it, and compares them to real life conversations. The aim is to see whether they differ from real life conversations to the extent expected, and whether these differences give rise to any compensational strategies to ensure successful communication. The results reveal a slightly higher amount of maxim undermining in the chat room than in the real life conversations, but not as high as expected. Accordingly, few compensational strategies need be adopted. It is suggested that the main explanation for these findings is that chatroom users have adapted their conversation patterns to the medium.

Submitted by Nadir Basilio (nadirsb@uninove.br) on 2016-06-16T20:28:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Dantas Soares.pdf: 1292986 bytes, checksum: e3e215ddc6c65d8ed554ce165fb334fe (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-16T20:28:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Dantas Soares.pdf: 1292986 bytes, checksum: e3e215ddc6c65d8ed554ce165fb334fe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-25 / The growing discussion about what are the forms of communication that will dominate the organizational structures in modern companies is gaining many academic contributions, but they seem to be entering a conflict as its organizational function. Many authors argue that virtual communications will replace the face-to-face communication with all-sufficiency. Another line of research states that virtual communication is used only for simple contacts, as marking a meeting, but the serious business decisions will only be taken face-to-face. Based on this assumption was investigated three schools in the ABC Paulista to know how was working internal communication of these schools and how its notification is performed. The main result of this research, it was identified that friendship is a phenomenon that drives the virtual contacts and that, even in environments where employees are not always present, face-to-face communication is still used as the primary means of notification. / A crescente discussão sobre quais serão as formas de comunicação que irão dominar as estruturas organizacionais nas empresas modernas vem ganhando muitas contribuições acadêmicas, porém elas parecem estar entrando em um conflito quanto a sua função organizacional. Muitos autores defendem que as comunicações virtuais irão substituir a comunicação cara-a-cara com plena suficiência. Outra linha de pesquisadores afirma que a comunicação virtual é utilizada apenas para contatos simples, como a marcação de uma reunião, porém as decisões sérias das empresas somente serão tomadas cara-a-cara. Com base nessa premissa foi investigada três escolas no ABC Paulista para saber como estava funcionando a comunicação interna destas escolas e como é realizada a sua comunicação formal. Como principal resultado dessa pesquisa, foi identificado que a amizade é um fenômeno que impulsiona os contatos virtuais e que, mesmo em ambientes onde os colaboradores não estão sempre presentes, a comunicação cara-a-cara continua sendo usada como principal meio de comunicação formal.

This thesis focuses on the development of an open source software capable of automatic face detection in an image captured by a thermal camera, followed by a temperature measuring. This software is supposed to aid in the COVID-19 pandemics. The developed software is independent of used thermal camera. In this thesis, I am using TIM400 thermal camera. The implementation of the face detection was achieved by an OpenCV module. The methods tested were Template Matching, Eigen Faces, and Cascade Classifier. The last-mentioned had the best results, hence was used in the final version of the software. Cascade Classifier is looking for the eyes and their surrounding area in the image, allowing the software to subsequently measure the temperature on the surface of one's forehead. One can therefore be wearing a face mask or a respirator safely. The temperature measuring works in real time and the software is able to capture several people at once. It then keeps a record of the temperature of each measured individual as well as the time of the measurement. The software as a whole is a part of an installation file compatible with the Windows operating system. The functionality of this software was tested – the video recordings are included in this thesis.