User:Michey0829/sandbox

I will use this for editing the Backchannel Article

So my contribution for Backchannel will be to include:

Under the "Recent Research" area I am looking to add a source that says: In recent years scholars have included the "optionality" of backchanneling in their definition. It is never necessary to use and is always as a supplement to the main conversation. (Tolins)

Again under the "Recent Research" area I would add a source that speaks on development of a backchannel system: At Kyoto University in the Graduate School of Informatics some programmers and social scientists developed a system for the elderly to continue communicating. They have created a lifelike robot that uses backchanneling as a method to continue a conversation.

Lastly in "Recent Research" area I will add a study: In 1997 there was a study that showed in over 1155 american conversations, backchanneling constituted 19% of words made.