Gestural communication is a modality considered in the literature as a candidate for determining the ancestral prerequisites of the emergence of human language. As reported in captive chimpanzees and human children, a study in captive baboons revealed that a communicative gesture elicits stronger degree of right-hand bias than non-communicative actions. It remains unclear if it is the communica...

TP * PT his position statement is a collection of excerpts from my newly-published journal article “Using End User Environments to Mediate Conversations: A ‘Communicative Dimensions’ Framework” [1]. Because the work is relevant to that being done in the Cognitive Dimensions Community, and I would like to attend the VL-HCC ’05 CD workshop in order to disseminate the work and exchange ideas with ...

Communicative feedback refers to unobtrusive (usually short) vocal or bodily expressions whereby a recipient of information can inform a contributor of information about whether he/she is able and willing to communicate, perceive the information, and understand the information. This paper provides a theory for embodied communicative feedback, describing the different dimensions and features inv...

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An important part of human intelligence, both historically and operationally, is our ability to communicate. We learn how to communicate, and maintain our communicative skills, in a society of communicators – a highly effective way to reach and maintain proficiency in this complex skill. Principles that might allow artificial agents to learn language this way are incompletely known at present I...

This paper proposes a new model of communication in multiagent systems according to which the semantics of communication depends on their pragmatics. Since these pragmatics are seen to result from the consequences of communicative actions as these have been empirically observed by a particular agent in the past, the model is radically empirical, consequentialist and constructivist. A formal fra...

The paper presents a critical inquiry into the relationship between Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and progressive rationalisation in modern organisations. By drawing on the evidence from a field study of a University consultative process, the paper investigates how communicative practices embedded in a public discourse via CMC influence rationalisation of organisational processes. This ...

Modern organizations face the challenge of communicating their marketing strategies through the Web, besides the traditional means of communication, i.e., newspapers and television. In this context, evaluation of the communicative efficacy of websites becomes a ‘must’ for exploiting the power of such communication channels. In this paper, we propose a systematic method and a tool that supports ...

A theory of communication between autonomous agents should make testable predictions about which communicative behaviors are collaborative, and provide a framework for determining the features of a communicative situation that affect whether a behavior is collaborative. The results presented here are derived from a two-phase empirical method. First, we analyze a corpus of naturallyoccurring pro...

Verschueren’s Linguistic Adaptation Theory (1999) provides the theoretical framework for the study on codeswitching in EFL classroom. It views code-switching as an adaptive phenomenon in the interaction between people and their conditions of life. Based on Verschueren’s Linguistic Adaptation Theory, the present paper gave a qualitative analysis of the adaptability that teachers’ code-switching ...