The constructs of "common ground" and "grounding" are frequently invoked in the CSCW literature as a mechanism by which participants engaged in joint activity coordinate their respective understandings of matters at hand. These constructs arise from a model of conversation developed by Herbert Clark and sometimes referred to as "contribution theory." We describe here the basic features of this ...

This essay aims to demonstrate the theoretical purchase offered by linking Dewey’s educational theory with a rigorous account of dialectical development. Drawing on recent literature which emphasizes the continuing influence of Hegel on Dewey’s thought throughout the latter’s career, this essay reconstructs Dewey’s argument regarding the detrimental effects of “external aims” (e.g., grades, sta...

De acuerdo con Larry Hickman, el estudio de las prácticas tecnológicas constituye la base y modelo del proyecto filosófico John Dewey: análisis crítica experiencia humana. En lectura Hickman dada concepción transaccional Dewey, tecnología se caracteriza por su capacidad transformación ambiente propio ser humano. Así, perspectiva deweyana permitiría comprender a en términos instrumentos o herram...

In this paper, I want to examine and challenge certain criticisms of Dewey's conception of authority. These criticisms are, broadly speaking, of two species. The first set of criticisms involves what critics have labeled Dewey's "strong" authority. These critics, the so-called "Illinois Revisionists," argue that embedded in Dewey's social and educational philosophy are assumptions about authori...

We show that a full element-index can be as space-efficient as a direct index with Dewey ids, after compression using typical techniques. 1 Full Element-Index for XML Keyword Search Keyword search is a crucial operation that has to be supported on XML data. Earlier works attacking this problem from information retrieval (IR) perspective essentially consider disjunctive query semantics (e.g., se...