This book examines coordinated verbal and nonverbal symmetry in turn taking behavior during conversation using three modern techniques for analyzing conversational data in nonstationary time series data: windowed cross-correlation, multifractal wavelet analysis, and recurrence quantification analysis. A major goal of this work was to combine the well-established qualitative method of analyzing verbal (and more recently nonverbal) discourse known as conversation analysis (CA) with more recent quantitative methods for analyzing nonstationary time series data.
Kathleen received her Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Notre Dame in 2007. She is currently the Group Leader and Principal Researcher for the Human Factor and Usability Resaerch Group at the U.S. Census Bureau.