Communication can be seen as the main ingredient in medical care. In reviewing doctor-patient communication, the following topics are addressed: (1) different purposes of medical communication; (2) analysis of doctor-patient communication; (3) specific communicative behaviors; (4) the influence of communicative behaviors on patient outcomes; and (5) concluding remarks. Three different purposes ...

Speech acts in natural language dialogues can be regarded as intentional acts performed by a dialogue participant to innuence the relevant aspects of the mental state of a recipient. In this paper, a framework is discussed for deriving the beliefs and intentions of a speaker from a certain speech act. To this end, the notion of a speech act is replaced by the formal notion of a communicative ac...

We provide an eclectic generic framework to understand the back and forth interactions between participants in a conversation highlighting the complexity of the actions that listeners are engaged in. Communicative actions of one participant implicate the “other” in many ways. In this paper, we try to enumerate some essential relevant dimensions of this reciprocal dependence.

In this paper we present a general model of cmmnunication applied to the special case of dialogue. Our broad perspective aims to account for the many facets of human dialogue within a singl~ theoretical framework. In particular, our project's aim of incorporating relevant non-verbal communicative acts from the person-machine interface make it essential that the description of communication be s...

Information graphics found in popular media contain communicative signals which help the viewer infer the graphic designer’s intended message. One signal is the relative effort required for different recognition tasks. This paper presents a model of the effort required to recognize a trend in a grouped bar chart. The model is developed using the ACT-R cognitive framework and validated via eye t...

This paper draws upon the importance of titles in intercultural communication starting from the results of an experiment in the field of psychology aimed at measuring the mnemonic valué of titles as well as the expectations and evaluations they entail or the influential power they exert on receivers. Assuming that translation is a form of communication and adopting an eclectic approach based on...

This thesis proposed a framework for conceptualizing critical thinking in language learning. A learning environment where collaborative learning and network technology were combined − computer-mediated collaborative learning (CMCL) − was set up. The main aim was to study the potential of the learning environment in promoting critical thinking (CT) in language learning. The proposed framework of...

This paper is to challenge the basic assumptions about ‘meaning’ in the current technologies for the Semantic Web including RDF(S). The contextual and communicative aspects should not be ignored in the use of language. In this paper, therefore, the intensional semantics of the Semantic Web is examined along with conceptualist semantics as an alternative framework.

This paper describes an ISO project developing an international standard for annotating dialogue with semantic information, in particular concerning the communicative functions of the utterances, the kind of content they address, and the dependency relations to what was said and done earlier in the dialogue. The project, registered as ISO 24617-2 Semantic annotation framework, Part 2: Dialogue ...

The problem of modality detection in so called communicative interactivity is addressed. Multiple audio and video recordings of human communication are analyzed within this framework, based on fusion of the extracted features. At the decision level, support vector machines (SVMs) are utilized to segregate between the communication modalities. The proposed approach is verified through simulation...