ed from time, place and physical conditions. This is called virtualization. The exciting thing for a network theory is that this process has its limits, as the next statement holds. 2. The substantial relation ‘Despite their articulation all social relations remain inextricably bound up with units and physical environments In this statement my conception of network theory is different from most...

In this paper, we propose a genre taxonomy as a knowledge repository of communicative structures or “typified actions” enacted by organizational members. The Genre taxonomy aims at helping people to make sense of diverse types of communicative actions, and has three features to achieve this objective. First, the genre taxonomy represents the elements of both genres and genre systems, sequences ...

Sound-based communication within different kinds of media have a long tradition. Sound design of radio-plays as early as 1920s have defined the basis for communicative use of sound effects which is still relevant in the tradition of film sound design. One of the common demands for sound designers have been the creation of sound effects with various emotional or intentional qualities. The suitab...

adopting a humanistic, communicative-based approach to semiotics, this paper aims at investigating the status of linguistic signs and their interaction with other communicative signs. the status of linguistic sign is first studied in semiotic theories spanning ancient, middle ages and modern era. based on the commonalities envisaged in four contemporary semiotic theories done in the spirit of t...

In this work we present a typology of eye closing behaviours based on a semantic taxonomy of communicative signals. The types of eye closing we investigate are blinks, eye-closures and winks performed during political debates. While other studies in the literature attempt to classify blinks and eye-closures according to their duration or (in)completeness of the closure, our study aims to distin...

We outline some components of a mentalist theory of human communicative competence. Communication in our species is an intentional and overt type of social interaction, based on each agent's capability of entertaining shared mental states and of acting so as to make certain mental states shared with the other. Communicative meaning is a matter of ascription: it is not an intrinsic property of a...

Today, not only the GUI itself, but the interaction between human and computer (HCI) is an important design task for all services and products. For telecommunication services in particular designers have to cope with complex functionality, multimodal input channels and different device properties. But how can we predict the quality perceived by the user? How can we provide systems that satisfy ...