Abstract:Worksite communication is a key to boosting teamwork and improving worker performance on the construction worksite. Communication among workers on the construction site mostly consists of speech communication. However, construction sites are typically noisy due to construction tasks like drilling and operation of heavy equipment. Meanwhile, workers on construction sites typically represent a range of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds and have different speaking accents. This can make it difficult for… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.