COMMUNICATIVE ASPECT OF GERMAN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

The Contribution of Electronic Communication Media to the Design Process: Communicative and Cultural Implications

Innovation in a company’s design process is increasingly a matter of cooperation between the company and its customers. New Information and Communication Technology (ICT) possibilities such as electronic communication (EC) media generate even more opportunities for companies to collaborate with customers during the early stages of research and development. This exploratory study examined the de...

On the Communicative Aspect of Human-Robot Joint Action*

Actions performed in the context of a joint activity comprise two aspects: functional and communicative. The functional component achieves the goal of the action, whereas its communicative component, when present, expresses some information to the actor’s partners in the joint activity. The interpretation of such communication requires leveraging information that is public to all participants, ...

The communicative contexts of grammatical aspect use in English.

In many of the world's languages grammatical aspect is used to indicate how events unfold over time. In English, activities that are ongoing can be distinguished from those that are completed using the morphological marker -ing. Using naturalistic observations of two children in their third year of life, we quantify the availability and reliability of the imperfective form in the communicative ...

Emergence of communication in embodied agents: co-adapting communicative and non-communicative behaviours

In this paper I discuss in which conditions a population of embodied and situated agents that have to solve problems that requires cooperation might develop forms of ritualized interaction and communication. After reviewing the most relevant literature I will try to identify the the main open research problems and the most promising research directions. More specifially I will discuss: (a) the ...

The Communicative Effectiveness of Different Types of Communication Strategy