Susan E Brennan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1206406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan E Brennan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan E |
| FAMILY NAME | Brennan |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNAN S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Impact of a Workshop with Visualization and Ethics Discussion on Awareness of Flood Risk and Intent to Protect
Disasters such as storm surge flooding pose an escalating threat to vulnerable coastal communities. While advances in weather models and forecasts are essential for informing protective actions, improving communication with the public for heightened storm preparedness is equally important. In this report, we provide a quantitative evaluation of lessons learned in an online workshop involving over 150 college students. The workshop employed simula…
What is retained about common ground? Distinct effects of linguistic and visual co-presence
Eye Gaze and Head Orientation Cues in Face-to-Face Referential Communication
During face-to-face communication, people use visual cues about what their partners are attending to as they process language. An eyetracking experiment explored how addressees use speakers’ eye gaze and head orientation while interpreting references to objects in a spatial task. Thirty-six naive director/matcher pairs seated face-to-face were separated by a low or high barrier that hid identical mirror-image arrangements of objects. We compared …
Anticipating Distracted Addressees
To what extent are speakers' utterances shaped by their expectations of addressees' behavior, and to what extent are they shaped by the feedback they receive from addressees? In 39 pairs (32 men and 46 women), speakers told addressees 2 jokes. Addressees were either attentive or else distracted by a second task, and speakers expected addressees to be either attentive or distracted. Attentive addressees gave more feedback than distracted addressee…
Caricature Generator
The author has researched and developed a theory of computation for caricature and has implemented this theory as an interactive computer graphics program. The Caricature Generator program is used to create caricatures by amplifying the differences between the face to be caricatured and a comparison face. This continuous, parallel amplification of facial features on the computer screen simulates the visualization process in the imagination of the…
Disfluency Rates in Conversation
After reviewing situational and demographic factors that have been argued to affect speakers' disfluency rates, we examined disfluency rates in a corpus of task-oriented conversations ( Schober & Carstensen, 2001) with variables that might affect fluency rates. These factors included: speakers' ages (young, middle-aged, and older), task roles (director vs. matcher in a referential communication task), difficulty of topic domain (abstract geometri…
Illusory Transparency Revisited
Keysar (1994) suggested that language users fall prey to the "illusory transparency of intention," a phenomenon in which individuals misapply their own privileged knowledge to predict others' interpretations of utterances. In Keysar's experiments, readers sometimes judged story characters' remarks as sarcastic when they, but not the narrative addressees, possessed information (i.e., negative privileged information) in favor of those interpretatio…
What Can We Conclude From Speakers Behaving Badly
In Gerrig, Ohaeri, and Brennan (this issue) we called into question whether "illusory transparency" (Keysar, 1994) is actually an interesting and perplexing phenomenon, or whether readers are simply perplexed when protagonists in stories behave uncooperatively or irrationally. In this commentary, we highlight data from our original experiments that were not addressed by Keysar (this issue). We suggest that serious demand characteristics, rather t…
Use and acquisition of idiomatic expressions in referring by native and non‐native speakers
When referring repeatedly to an object in conversation, two people typically come to use the same expression, a phenomenon called lexical entrainment (Brennan & Clark, 1996; Garrod & Anderson, 1987). But what happens when one partner is not as linguistically skilled as the other? In three experiments, we examined how native and non‐native speakers adjust their referring expressions to each other in conversation. Twenty Asian language speakers lea…
Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation.
Grounding in communication.
It takes two people working together to play a duet, shake hands, play chess, waltz, teach, or make love. To succeed, the two of them have to coordinate both the content and process of what they are doing. Alan and Barbara, on the piano, must come to play the same Mozart duet. This is coordination of content. They must also synchronize their entrances and exits, coordinate how loudly to play forte and pianissimo, and otherwise adjust to each othe…
Disfluency Rates in Conversation
After reviewing situational and demographic factors that have been argued to affect speakers' disfluency rates, we examined disfluency rates in a corpus of task-oriented conversations ( Schober & Carstensen, 2001) with variables that might affect fluency rates. These factors included: speakers' ages (young, middle-aged, and older), task roles (director vs. matcher in a referential communication task), difficulty of topic domain (abstract geometri…
Use and acquisition of idiomatic expressions in referring by native and non‐native speakers
When referring repeatedly to an object in conversation, two people typically come to use the same expression, a phenomenon called lexical entrainment (Brennan & Clark, 1996; Garrod & Anderson, 1987). But what happens when one partner is not as linguistically skilled as the other? In three experiments, we examined how native and non‐native speakers adjust their referring expressions to each other in conversation. Twenty Asian language speakers lea…
Anticipating Distracted Addressees
To what extent are speakers' utterances shaped by their expectations of addressees' behavior, and to what extent are they shaped by the feedback they receive from addressees? In 39 pairs (32 men and 46 women), speakers told addressees 2 jokes. Addressees were either attentive or else distracted by a second task, and speakers expected addressees to be either attentive or distracted. Attentive addressees gave more feedback than distracted addressee…
Caricature Generator
The author has researched and developed a theory of computation for caricature and has implemented this theory as an interactive computer graphics program. The Caricature Generator program is used to create caricatures by amplifying the differences between the face to be caricatured and a comparison face. This continuous, parallel amplification of facial features on the computer screen simulates the visualization process in the imagination of the…
Eye Gaze and Head Orientation Cues in Face-to-Face Referential Communication
During face-to-face communication, people use visual cues about what their partners are attending to as they process language. An eyetracking experiment explored how addressees use speakers’ eye gaze and head orientation while interpreting references to objects in a spatial task. Thirty-six naive director/matcher pairs seated face-to-face were separated by a low or high barrier that hid identical mirror-image arrangements of objects. We compared …
Illusory Transparency Revisited
Keysar (1994) suggested that language users fall prey to the "illusory transparency of intention," a phenomenon in which individuals misapply their own privileged knowledge to predict others' interpretations of utterances. In Keysar's experiments, readers sometimes judged story characters' remarks as sarcastic when they, but not the narrative addressees, possessed information (i.e., negative privileged information) in favor of those interpretatio…
What Can We Conclude From Speakers Behaving Badly
In Gerrig, Ohaeri, and Brennan (this issue) we called into question whether "illusory transparency" (Keysar, 1994) is actually an interesting and perplexing phenomenon, or whether readers are simply perplexed when protagonists in stories behave uncooperatively or irrationally. In this commentary, we highlight data from our original experiments that were not addressed by Keysar (this issue). We suggest that serious demand characteristics, rather t…
Grounding in communication.
It takes two people working together to play a duet, shake hands, play chess, waltz, teach, or make love. To succeed, the two of them have to coordinate both the content and process of what they are doing. Alan and Barbara, on the piano, must come to play the same Mozart duet. This is coordination of content. They must also synchronize their entrances and exits, coordinate how loudly to play forte and pianissimo, and otherwise adjust to each othe…
Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation.
Use and acquisition of idiomatic expressions in referring by native and non‐native speakers
When referring repeatedly to an object in conversation, two people typically come to use the same expression, a phenomenon called lexical entrainment (Brennan & Clark, 1996; Garrod & Anderson, 1987). But what happens when one partner is not as linguistically skilled as the other? In three experiments, we examined how native and non‐native speakers adjust their referring expressions to each other in conversation. Twenty Asian language speakers lea…
Illusory Transparency Revisited
Keysar (1994) suggested that language users fall prey to the "illusory transparency of intention," a phenomenon in which individuals misapply their own privileged knowledge to predict others' interpretations of utterances. In Keysar's experiments, readers sometimes judged story characters' remarks as sarcastic when they, but not the narrative addressees, possessed information (i.e., negative privileged information) in favor of those interpretatio…
What Can We Conclude From Speakers Behaving Badly
In Gerrig, Ohaeri, and Brennan (this issue) we called into question whether "illusory transparency" (Keysar, 1994) is actually an interesting and perplexing phenomenon, or whether readers are simply perplexed when protagonists in stories behave uncooperatively or irrationally. In this commentary, we highlight data from our original experiments that were not addressed by Keysar (this issue). We suggest that serious demand characteristics, rather t…
Disfluency Rates in Conversation
After reviewing situational and demographic factors that have been argued to affect speakers' disfluency rates, we examined disfluency rates in a corpus of task-oriented conversations ( Schober & Carstensen, 2001) with variables that might affect fluency rates. These factors included: speakers' ages (young, middle-aged, and older), task roles (director vs. matcher in a referential communication task), difficulty of topic domain (abstract geometri…
Caricature Generator
The author has researched and developed a theory of computation for caricature and has implemented this theory as an interactive computer graphics program. The Caricature Generator program is used to create caricatures by amplifying the differences between the face to be caricatured and a comparison face. This continuous, parallel amplification of facial features on the computer screen simulates the visualization process in the imagination of the…
Anticipating Distracted Addressees
To what extent are speakers' utterances shaped by their expectations of addressees' behavior, and to what extent are they shaped by the feedback they receive from addressees? In 39 pairs (32 men and 46 women), speakers told addressees 2 jokes. Addressees were either attentive or else distracted by a second task, and speakers expected addressees to be either attentive or distracted. Attentive addressees gave more feedback than distracted addressee…
Eye Gaze and Head Orientation Cues in Face-to-Face Referential Communication
During face-to-face communication, people use visual cues about what their partners are attending to as they process language. An eyetracking experiment explored how addressees use speakers’ eye gaze and head orientation while interpreting references to objects in a spatial task. Thirty-six naive director/matcher pairs seated face-to-face were separated by a low or high barrier that hid identical mirror-image arrangements of objects. We compared …
What is retained about common ground? Distinct effects of linguistic and visual co-presence
Impact of a Workshop with Visualization and Ethics Discussion on Awareness of Flood Risk and Intent to Protect
Disasters such as storm surge flooding pose an escalating threat to vulnerable coastal communities. While advances in weather models and forecasts are essential for informing protective actions, improving communication with the public for heightened storm preparedness is equally important. In this report, we provide a quantitative evaluation of lessons learned in an online workshop involving over 150 college students. The workshop employed simula…
Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Speech and dialogue systems (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Communication (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)