Parikh and Krasucki [1990] showed that pairwise communication of the value of a function f leads to a consensus about the communicated value if the function f is convex. They showed that union consistency of f may not be sufficient to guarantee consensus in any communication protocol. Krasucki [1996] proved that consensus occurs for any union consistent function if the protocol contains no cycl...

Workshop on ethics and communication in Copenhagen 11–13.3.2007 The European Environment and Health Strategy adopted by the European Commission in 2003 presented a new vision on how to address environment and health in an integrated way by putting health in the centre of environmental policy. Based upon the Strategy the Commission adopted in 2004 a Communication on the Environment and Health Ac...

Both “actions” and “interactions” are micro-operations that can be aggregated from a system’s perspective. Whereas “actions” operate historically, “interactions” provide the events with “meaning” from a hindsight perspective. Luhmann’s sociology of communication systems adds to the approach of symbolic interactionism the question what global dimensions of communication mean for local interactio...

Both ‘actions’ and ‘interactions’ can be considered as micro-operations that can be aggregated from a systemic perspective. Whereas actions operate historically, interactions provide the events retrospectively with meaning. Luhmann’s sociology of communication systems adds to the approach of symbolic interactionism the question of what global dimensions of communication mean for local interacti...

We present a novel communication and evaluation scenario for user interaction with a communication device (television). To improve user experience with communication services, we merge three domains: social signal processing, human action recognition and human-computer interaction. Our scenario includes applied and theoretical solutions about user interaction with a communication device. We dec...

In a plenary talk at WMSCI 2012 entitled “Planning for Action Research: Looking at Practice through a Different Lens,” this author asserted that behavioral science practitioners, often “back into” action research – they start out doing a process improvement or intervention and discover something along the way, i.e., generalizable knowledge, that seems worthwhile to share with their community of...

We introduce a framework of access/action control which shifts the emphasis from the participants to their relationship. The framework is based on a communication model in which participants negotiate the mutually agreed-upon boundary conditions of their relationship, and create social reference points by encapsulating them in compact “communication pacts,” called “commpacts.” Commpacts are des...

Visualization is traditionally viewed as an efficient way of transferring a large amount of information from a database into an individual's head. As a result, researchers have largely focused on techniques that improve the display of datasets for a single user. This paper proposes a new perspective, communication-minded visualization (CMV), which recognizes that data analysis is often a proces...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Seppo Heikkilä Name of the doctoral dissertation Affordance-Based Task Communication Methods for Astronaut-Robot Cooperation Publisher School of Electrical Engineering Unit Automation and Systems Technology Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 102/2011 Field of research Automation technology Manusc...

We develop a model of information exchange through communication and investigate its implications for information aggregation in large societies. An underlying state (of the world) determines which action has higher payoff. Agents decide which agents to form a communication link with incurring the associated cost and receive a private signal correlated with the underlying state. They then excha...