In modern academic community not only communication management plays a great role. Monitoring of expectations, awareness communicative needs, the course and results interaction, barriers hindering rational managerial decisions are also large importance. Everything done by participants learning process to solve strategic tactical tasks university development requires an effective exchange inform...

Settling disputes, even disputes about meaning, by third party arbitration is different from settling them by negotiation. Moreover, disputes can be settled by a procedure in which the disputing parties follow a protocol that prohibits them from simply following their original aims. They can collectively constitute an arbitrator. This provides an alternative model for resolving differences in m...

Proactive information delivery is critical to achieving effective teamwork. However, existing theories do not adequately address proactive information delivery. This paper presents a formal framework for proactive information delivery in agent teamwork. First, the concept of information need is introduced. Second, a new modal operator, InfoNeed is used to represent information needs. The proper...

The capabilities for agents in a team to anticipate information needs of teammates and proactively offer relevant information are highly desirable. However, such behaviors have not been fully prescribed by existing agent theories. We attempt to establish a theory about proactive information exchanges based on the SharedPlan framework and Cohen and Levesque’s formalization of communicative actio...

This paper takes a new look at the traditionally established divide between sounds and prosodies, viewing it as a useful heuristics in language descriptions that focus on the segmental make- up of words. It pleads for a new approach that bridges this reified compartmentalization of speech in a more global communicative perspective. Data are presented from a German perception experiment in the f...

This article critically examines Jürgen Habermas’s theory of democracy as developed in Between Facts and Norms. In particular, it focuses on the concept of communicative power and argues that there is a crucial ambiguity in Habermas’s use of this concept. Since communicative power is the key normative resource that is supposed to counter the norm-free steering media of money and administrative ...

Patients with critical illnesses and on intubation cannot express their needs through verbal language. Thus, nurses other healthcare professionals might not meet needs, resulting in frustration more stress for patients. This situation may interfere patients’ recovery. In this quasi-experiment study, we developed tested the effectiveness of Needs Communicative Digital Technology Program. Sixty p...

To improve the position of people with communication disabilities, it is first essential to identify the tools they require to improve their communicative capabilities. HLT can be instrumental in restoring functions and compensating for impairments by providing solutions that integrate knowledge of speech and language into automatic processes. Against this background, an initiative was taken of...