Individuals are active audience members that use Internet-based social media technologies to create and negotiate social action in online spaces. Communicative informatics is the key to constructing, describing or critiquing social media. Communicative informatics is the discovery of the audience, text/image, technology, negotiated place relationships that create symbolic meaning. Four proposit...

actions are decomposed until primitive communicative actions (executable as speech acts) are reached. In performing this task, the text planner relies on the set of explanation strategies that specify possible decompositions for each communicative action and the constraints dictating when they may be applied. These constraints are checked against the solution graph and when they are satisfied t...

By the performance of language acts, participants in an organisation initiate action and report about results. An unambiguous interpretation of these language acts is important for the modelling of business communication. In the actual realisation of business conversations the communicative intention of the speaker often differs from the grammatical meaning of the sentence. This paper focuses o...

Linguistic communication builds on prelinguistic communicative gestures, but the ontogenetic origins and complexities of these prelinguistic gestures are not well known. The current study tested whether 8-month-olds, who do not yet point communicatively, use instrumental actions for communicative purposes. In two experiments, infants reached for objects when another person was present and when ...

We are currently implementing CIRCSIM-Tutor v. 3, a natural-language based intelligent tutoring system (ITS) which tutors medical students on a topic in cardiovascular physiology (the baroreceptor reflex). We outline the text generation process in CIRCSIM-Tutor and illustrate a number of issues we have faced with respect to the representation of communicative action.

The departure point of this paper is the use of visualization as a tool in action case research. In the action case research the researcher is balancing between interpretation of qualitative data and intervention to solve the problem of the research partner. The communicative and knowledge aspects of visualization are highlighted. The research partner in this paper, Flower Systems Ltd is a soft...

One of the most attractive arguments for taking a logical approach to communication, action and knowledge is the prospect of accounting for the ability of agents to perform inference in performing and recognizing communicative actions. In this squib, I illustrate how NLG systems can pose and evaluate logical queries inspired by the work of (Moore, 1985; Morgenstern, 1987; Davis, 1994) to assess...

Implementation of adequate conversational structures is a key issue in developing successful interactive user interfaces. A way of testing the adequacy of the structures is to prove the correct orientation of each communicative action towards a preceding action. We refer to this orientation leading to a certain response as the affordance of the communicative action. In this paper we present a c...

We investigated whether the social context in which an object is experienced influences the encoding of its various properties. We hypothesized that when an object is observed in a communicative context, its intrinsic features (such as its shape) would be preferentially encoded at the expense of its extrinsic properties (such as its location). In 3 experiments, participants were presented with ...