live-chat

present singular third person live-chats · participle present live-chatting · participle past live-chatted · past live-chatted · alternative livechat

1. intransitiveTo talk by means of the Internet in real time, with text, voice or video.

   Virtual summit members watched the video broadcast and live-chatted with the other girls on the homepage of the site.

   2014, Emily Bent, “Girls’ Human Rights and Virtual Empowerment. Celebrating the First International Day of the Girl with a Virtual Summit”, in Carol Smallwood, editor, Women, Work, and the Web. How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities, Lanham · Boulder · New York · London: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 22

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   In a recent study with a movie recommendation site […], higher message interactivity in the form of footprints of user actions, responsive suggestions in a search box, and live-chatting with an online agent led to greater perceived contingency and engagement with the site, which ultimately created more positive attitudes toward it and higher intention to recommend the site to others.

   2012, James Price Dillard, Lijiang Shen, The SAGE Handbook of Persuasion: Developments in Theory and Practice