New users of virtual environments face a steep learning curve, requiring persistence and determination to overcome challenges experienced while acclimatizing to the demands of avatar-mediated behavior. Concurrent structured self-reports can be used to monitor the personal affective and cognitive struggles involved in virtual world adaptation to specific affordances while performing particular t...

We examine adaptable dialogue interface agents using meta-rules to engage in to converse with information seeking callers. For an adaptable dialogue interface agent to exhibit the intelligence required in a dialogue with a user it needs the ability to handle unanticipated user input gracefully in a proper context, that is, it can support ad hoc requests from a user, maintain the topic of discou...

Received: 27 May 2005 Revised: 16 December 2005 Accepted: 3 January 2006 Abstract The concept of genre represents a meaningful pattern of communication, which has been applied in the information systems field. Genres are socially constructed: they may consequently be socially more or less acceptable or contested. This paper focuses on the concept of communicative genre and addresses the issue o...

To support advancements in digital archival and curation processes, developing tools and capabilities that can accommodate cultural objects and their interpretations are necessary, in compliance with meta-data standards. This helps in establishing contexts within and among collections, along with pedagogical discourse and an extension of themes. In this paper, we present Curarium, a novel platf...

This paper describes a meta-communication model and illustrates its applicability. The model integrates previous discursive approaches to reflective practice and extends them with additional relevant concepts. The concepts of the model are mainly based on Habermas’ discourse theory. By means of case examples, this paper also illustrates how the model can be used for collective sense-making, i.e...

Today’s writing instruction performance is greatly aided by oral and nonverbal communication. This study intends to contextualize the lecturer’s visual modes regarding paralinguistic features in class. Data were gathered from PSETs’ self-rated questionnaire that durably video recorded. analysed using IBM SPSS version 20 for descriptive factor analysis, as well ELAN’s software non-verbal linguis...

Poster is one of the main modes multimodal discourse and plays a very important role in film promotion. Based on visual grammar system under framework meta-functional theory, this paper gives analysis poster movie Hi, Mom. The purpose to interpret reproducing meaning, interactive meaning composition poster, which helps explore connotation thematic discourse, so as help people better understand ...

In informal mathematical discourse (such as the text of a paper on theoretical computer science) we often reason about equalities involving binding of object-variables. We find ourselves writing assertions involving meta-variables and capture-avoidance constraints on where object-variables can and cannot occur free. Formalising such assertions is problematic because the standard logical framewo...