The Distracted Ear: How Listeners Shape Conversational Dynamics
Résumé
In the realm of human communication, feedback plays a pivotal role in shaping the dynamics of conversations. This
study delves into the multifaceted relationship between listener feedback, narration quality and distraction effects.
We present an analysis conducted on the SMYLE corpus, specifically enriched for this study, where 30 dyads
of participants engaged in 1) face-to-face storytelling (8.2 hours) followed by 2) a free conversation (7.8 hours).
The storytelling task unfolds in two conditions, where a storyteller engages with either a ”normal” or a ”distracted”
listener. Examining the feedback impact on storytellers, we discover a positive correlation between the frequency
of specific feedback and the narration quality in normal conditions, providing an encouraging conclusion regarding
the enhancement of interaction through specific feedback in distraction-free settings. In contrast, in distracted
settings, a negative correlation emerges, suggesting that increased specific feedback may disrupt narration quality,
underscoring the complexity of feedback dynamics in human communication. The contribution of this paper is
twofold: first presenting a new and highly enriched resource for the analysis of discourse phenomena in controlled
and normal conditions; second providing new results on feedback production, its form and its consequence on the
discourse quality (with direct applications in human-machine interaction).
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