Familiarity among participants on a BBS: Analysis of relationship between depth of self-disclosure of questions and replies

Shogo Kato; Kanji Akahori

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 715–722

In text-based CMC, it is difficult for participants to feel familiarity for each other. This research involved an experiment which focused on self-disclosures of participants on BBS. Postings with three levels of depth of self-disclosure (deep,...

Features of Communication When Using a BBS in a Counseling Environment for Non-attendance Children

Shogo Kato; Kanji Akahori

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4153–4159

This paper seeks to examine the features of communication when using a bulletin board system (BBS) in a counseling environment for non-attendance children, who typically cannot communicate with other people well. A practical experiment was taken in...

Topics: Communication, Children

Effects of senders’ self-disclosures and styles of writing messages on recipients’ emotional aspects in e-mail communication

Yuuki Kato; Shogo Kato; Kanji Akahori

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 2585–2592

The study was designed to investigate the effects of senders' self-disclosures and styles of writing messages on recipients' emotional aspects in e-mail communication. In this experiment, e-mail messages were experimentally manipulated in terms of...

Topics: Social Studies

Study on Emotional Transmissions in Communication Using Bulletin Board System

Shogo Kato; Yuuki Kato; Kanji Akahori

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 2576–2584

This paper focuses on communication using bulletin board system (BBS). A practical experiment was conducted to investigate the degree of influence emotional transmissions between senders (writers) of replies and receivers (readers) of replies have...

Topics: Social Sciences, Communication

Emotional states and emoticons in e-mail communication using mobile phone

Shogo Kato; Yuuki Kato; Kanji Akahori

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 417–424

This study is a part of a series of studies by the authors who have been conducting researches on the emotional aspects in CMC continuously since 2001. This paper examined the method for preventing emotional problems in the e-mail communication...

Topics: Research Methods

Analysis of Anger in Mobile Phone Email Communications in Japan

Shogo Kato; Yuuki Kato; Douglass J Scott; Kanji Akahori

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 6083–6090

This paper focuses on the emotion of anger experienced when using mobile phone email. By better understanding the causes of anger in email, it is hoped that strategies can be developed to avoid such emotional troubles. This paper describes a three...