Coordinating talk and practical action

Coordinating Action Systems

We develop an action systems based approach that supports the separation of design of the functional or computation aspects of a system under construction from the coordination and synchronisation issues. The computation aspects are modelled as nondeterministic actions that work in parallel with the coordination actions, which impose some control on this nondeterministic part. We de ne a specia...

Action-Coordinating Prosody

This paper is an initial exploration of how prosody helps coordinate action, based on examination of speech and motion in a two-player maze game where the players run and jump to avoid obstacles, and coordinate movements to solve problems. We use an unsupervised method, Principal Component Analysis applied to a large set of time-spread features, to discover patterns of behavior involving both p...

Talk, Trust and Telecommunications: Alternative Mechanisms for Coordinating Commercial Transactions

Walk the talk: coordinating gesture with locomotion for conversational characters

Communicative behaviors are a very important aspect of human behavior, and deserve special attention when simulating groups and crowds of virtual pedestrians. Previous approaches have tended to focus on generating believable gestures for individual characters and talker-listener behaviors for static groups. In this paper, we consider the problem of creating rich and varied conversational behavi...

Rationing-talk and action in health care

Let's read! We will often find out this sentence everywhere. When still being a kid, mom used to order us to always read, so did the teacher. Some books are fully read in a week and we need the obligation to support reading. What about now? Do you still love reading? Is reading only for you who have obligation? Absolutely not! We here offer you a new book enPDFd rationing talk and action in hea...