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Journal articles on the topic "Intention to Communicate"
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Mikalonytė, Elzė Sigutė. "Why Does Pure Music Not Have Semantic Content?" Philosophy of Music 74, no. 4 (December 30, 2018): 1355–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.17990/rpf/2018_74_4_1355.
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the possibility of semantic content in pure music. The paper argues that pure music does not have semantic content. This conclusion relies on the Gricean analysis of meaning in terms of speakers’ intentions and on Peter Kivy’s argument that pure music does not meet the Gricean requirement for the composers’ intention. First, we analyze the results of empirical studies of metaphorical conceptualization of music; they show that the connections between properties of sound and various metaphors are not “one-to-one” but “one-to-many”. These results support a further argument that it is not possible for a composer to have an intention to communicate by his work of music what is, as we know from the empirical studies, perceived in music by the listeners; and if he has an intention to communicate something more specific than what is perceived by the listeners, the communication is bound to fail. This failure shows the absence of a Gricean communicative intention in the composer, even if an informative intention would be present.
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Rouchitsas, Alexandros, and Håkan Alm. "Smiles and Angry Faces vs. Nods and Head Shakes: Facial Expressions at the Service of Autonomous Vehicles." Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 7, no. 2 (January 20, 2023): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mti7020010.
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When deciding whether to cross the street or not, pedestrians take into consideration information provided by both vehicle kinematics and the driver of an approaching vehicle. It will not be long, however, before drivers of autonomous vehicles (AVs) will be unable to communicate their intention to pedestrians, as they will be engaged in activities unrelated to driving. External human–machine interfaces (eHMIs) have been developed to fill the communication gap that will result by offering information to pedestrians about the situational awareness and intention of an AV. Several anthropomorphic eHMI concepts have employed facial expressions to communicate vehicle intention. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficiency of emotional (smile; angry expression) and conversational (nod; head shake) facial expressions in communicating vehicle intention (yielding; non-yielding). Participants completed a crossing intention task where they were tasked with deciding appropriately whether to cross the street or not. Emotional expressions communicated vehicle intention more efficiently than conversational expressions, as evidenced by the lower latency in the emotional expression condition compared to the conversational expression condition. The implications of our findings for the development of anthropomorphic eHMIs that employ facial expressions to communicate vehicle intention are discussed.
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McDonald, Deborah Dillon, Ruth Ferreri, Carol Jin, Anthea Mendez, Julie Smail, Patricia Balcom, Sheila Shoemaker, Paul Lwekaza Kamuzora, Rebecca Durham, and Jaqueline Dibble. "Willingness to Communicate Organ Donation Intention." Public Health Nursing 24, no. 2 (March 2007): 151–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1446.2007.00619.x.
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Rouchitsas, Alexandros, and Håkan Alm. "Ghost on the Windshield: Employing a Virtual Human Character to Communicate Pedestrian Acknowledgement and Vehicle Intention." Information 13, no. 9 (September 7, 2022): 420. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info13090420.
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Pedestrians base their street-crossing decisions on vehicle-centric as well as driver-centric cues. In the future, however, drivers of autonomous vehicles will be preoccupied with non-driving related activities and will thus be unable to provide pedestrians with relevant communicative cues. External human–machine interfaces (eHMIs) hold promise for filling the expected communication gap by providing information about a vehicle’s situational awareness and intention. In this paper, we present an eHMI concept that employs a virtual human character (VHC) to communicate pedestrian acknowledgement and vehicle intention (non-yielding; cruising; yielding). Pedestrian acknowledgement is communicated via gaze direction while vehicle intention is communicated via facial expression. The effectiveness of the proposed anthropomorphic eHMI concept was evaluated in the context of a monitor-based laboratory experiment where the participants performed a crossing intention task (self-paced, two-alternative forced choice) and their accuracy in making appropriate street-crossing decisions was measured. In each trial, they were first presented with a 3D animated sequence of a VHC (male; female) that either looked directly at them or clearly to their right while producing either an emotional (smile; angry expression; surprised expression), a conversational (nod; head shake), or a neutral (neutral expression; cheek puff) facial expression. Then, the participants were asked to imagine they were pedestrians intending to cross a one-way street at a random uncontrolled location when they saw an autonomous vehicle equipped with the eHMI approaching from the right and indicate via mouse click whether they would cross the street in front of the oncoming vehicle or not. An implementation of the proposed concept where non-yielding intention is communicated via the VHC producing either an angry expression, a surprised expression, or a head shake; cruising intention is communicated via the VHC puffing its cheeks; and yielding intention is communicated via the VHC nodding, was shown to be highly effective in ensuring the safety of a single pedestrian or even two co-located pedestrians without compromising traffic flow in either case. The implications for the development of intuitive, culture-transcending eHMIs that can support multiple pedestrians in parallel are discussed.
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Melinger, Alissa, and Willem J. M. Levelt. "Gesture and the communicative intention of the speaker." Gesture 4, no. 2 (February 11, 2005): 119–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/gest.4.2.02mel.
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This paper aims to determine whether iconic tracing gestures produced while speaking constitute part of the speaker’s communicative intention. We used a picture description task in which speakers must communicate the spatial and color information of each picture to an interlocutor. By establishing the necessary minimal content of an intended message, we determined whether speech produced with concurrent gestures is less explicit than speech without gestures. We argue that a gesture must be communicatively intended if it expresses necessary information that was nevertheless omitted from speech. We found that speakers who produced iconic gestures representing spatial relations omitted more required spatial information from their descriptions than speakers who did not gesture. These results provide evidence that speakers intend these gestures to communicate. The results have implications for the cognitive architectures that underlie the production of gesture and speech.
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Luo, Yan, Hyunjin Noh, Lewis Lee, and Hee Lee. "Intention to Communicate End-of-Life Wishes among Rural African Americans: Is Awareness of Hospice Care Important?" Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 772. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2857.
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Abstract The intention to communicate end-of-life wishes and its related factors among adults in the southern rural region of the US has not been studied. This study aims to: (1) assess the intention to communicate end-of-life wishes among rural residents living in the Black Belt Region; (2) controlling for demographics and social determinants of health (SDH), examine the relationship between awareness of hospice care and the intention to communicate end-of-life wishes. A convenient sample living in rural Alabama was collected to complete a cross-sectional survey (N=182, age=18-91). Univariate analyses were conducted to assess participants’ intention to communicate end-of-life wishes, demographic characteristics, and SDH. Binary logistic regressions were used to examine the relationship between awareness of hospice care and the intention to communicate end-of-life wishes while controlling for demographics and SDH. The majority of participants were willing to communicate end-of-life wishes to their family (77.5%) or doctors (72.5%). Participants who were aware of hospice care were more likely to be willing to communicate end-of-life wishes to both their families (OR=10.08, p<0.01) and doctors (OR=7.20, p<0.05). Moreover, participants who were older were less likely to communicate end-of-life wishes to their doctors while participants with higher social isolation scores had lower intention to communicate end-of-life wishes to their families (OR=0.53, p<0.05). This is the first study assessing the intention of communicating end-of-life wishes among residents living in the Black Belt Region. This study demonstrated that awareness of hospice care is positively associated with the intention to communicate end-of-life wishes to both families and doctors.
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Callaghan, Tara C. "Developing an intention to communicate through drawing." Enfance 57, no. 1 (2005): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/enf.571.0045.
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Hanlon, Mary-Claire, and Yann Quidé. "Detecting an intention to communicate from nonword sounds." Psychology & Neuroscience 11, no. 2 (June 2018): 180–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pne0000108.
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Sartori, Luisa, Cristina Becchio, Bruno G. Bara, and Umberto Castiello. "Does the intention to communicate affect action kinematics?" Consciousness and Cognition 18, no. 3 (September 2009): 766–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2009.06.004.
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Christensen, Matthew, Jennifer Nelson, and Rogelio Cardona-Rivera. "Using Domain Compilation to Add Belief to Narrative Planners." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 16, no. 1 (October 1, 2020): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v16i1.7405.
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Using domain compilation, we present a narrative planning system that is capable of creating narrative plans that use both character intention and character beliefs. We introduce a model capable of representing character beliefs in PDDL domains. This model allows characters to fail at actions when their beliefs about the world differ from the actual world state. Domains of this type can be compiled into purely intentional domains, and fed as input to intentional planners. The resulting stories feature characters that pursue their own intentions based on their own knowledge of the world, learn from mistakes to update their beliefs, and communicate information to each other. These types of stories are not possible with purely intentional domains.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Intention to Communicate"
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Foulds-Elliott, Susannah Deborah. "Respiration in operatic singing: Intention to communicate." University of Sydney. Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/657.
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Professional operatic singing can be performed technically for practice and rehearsal, or with heightened emotion through intention to communicate with an audience. Previous studies of respiration in operatic singing have not taken into account the professional performer�s ability to differentiate at will between rehearsal and performance modes of singing. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the differences between singing �with intention to communicate� (as if performing) and singing �technically� (as if in rehearsal). The hypothesis is that this specified change of condition would change the respiratory patterns employed by the singers. Estimation of respiratory patterns was obtained using magnetometers. Performance singing was labelled �IC� (intention to communicate). Rehearsal singing was labelled �T� (technical) and also included �TL� (technical loud) and �TS� (technical soft). Each of the five singers performed two tasks (a free choice aria in Italian, and a set song). Only intra-subject analysis was used. One thousand and one breaths were analysed. These were then matched, so that only complete musical phrases (sung six times by the same singer) were compared with each other. Seven hundred and sixty-two matched phrases were analysed in this way. Measured variables were initiation lung volume (ILV), termination lung volume (TLV), the amount of lung volume expired (LVE), %VC released per second (Flow), the expiratory time (Te), and inspiratory time (Ti). Sound pressure level (SPL) was measured. This study also examined the ability of experienced listeners to distinguish between the T and IC performances from DAT recordings. Findings show that in comparison with T singing, IC singing used more air, with a greater percentage of vital capacity expired per second, but without a simple association with sound pressure level or expiratory time. Listeners were able to distinguish IC from T performances, demonstrating a perceived difference in the quality of the vocal output. These results demonstrate that performance intention to communicate, compared to rehearsal, results in a measurable difference in respiratory parameters, and therefore needs to be specified in future research.
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Foulds-Elliott, Susannah. "Respiration in operatic singing intention to communicate /." Connect to full text, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/657.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2005.Title from title screen (viewed 19 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Faculty of Health Sciences. Degree awarded 2005; thesis submitted 2004. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Thunberg, Sofia. "Can You Read My Mind? : A Participatory Design Study of How a Humanoid Robot Can Communicate Its Intent and Awareness." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Interaktiva och kognitiva system, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-158033.
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Communication between humans and interactive robots will benefit if people have a clear mental model of the robots' intent and awareness. The aim with this thesis was to investigate how human-robot interaction is affected by manipulation of social cues on the robot. The research questions were: How do social cues affect mental models of the Pepper robot, and how can a participatory design method be used for investigating how the Pepper robot could communicate intent and awareness? The hypothesis for the second question was that nonverbal cues would be preferred over verbal cues. An existing standard platform was used, Softbank's Pepper, as well as state-of-the-art tasks from the RoboCup@Home challenge. The rule book and observations from the 2018 competition were thematically coded and the themes created eight scenarios. A participatory design method called PICTIVE was used in a design study, where five student participants went through three phases, label, sketch and interview, to create a design for how the robot should communicate intent and awareness. The use of PICTIVE was a suitable way to extract a lot of design ideas. However, not all scenarios were optimal for the task. The design study confirmed the use of mediating physical attributes to alter the mental model of a humanoid robot to reach common ground. Further, it did not confirm the hypothesis that nonverbal cues would be preferred over verbal cues, though it did show that verbal cues would not be enough. This, however, needs to be further tested in live interactions.
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Klinger, Lauren Marie. "Goal Compatibility and Emotional Intensity: An Experimental Study of Graphic Images in Strategic Communication." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3186.
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The purpose of this quantitative study is to examine receiver variables involved in strategic communications and to look specifically at the use of graphic images in strategic communication materials. It argues that any complete, general model of persuasion effects will include both goal compatibility and emotional determinants. It argues that some influential theories used in strategic communications scholarship, including the situational theory of publics and the elaboration likelihood model, are incomplete because they have omitted these variables. This study also tests variables related to willingness to communicate, behavioral intention, and attitude towards the organization. These variables are drawn from prominent, well-tested theories in strategic communications, and used to begin building a new model of the effects of messages featuring graphic images.
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Lemeunier, Thierry. "L'intentionnalité communicative dans le dialogue homme-machine en langue naturelle." Phd thesis, Université du Maine, 2000. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00003771.
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Notre travail de thèse porte sur la modélisation des intentions de communications des systèmes de dialogue homme-machine en langue naturelle et de manière générale de tout agent logiciel. Il s'agit de proposer un modèle de fonctionnement permettant à la machine d'avoir ses propres intentions de communiquer avec l'utilisateur humain, de telle sorte que la pertinence optimale de ses énonciations soit garantie.Notre modèle s'appuie sur l'idée que le sens échangé entre les interactants d'une conversation n'est pas un sens pré-existant à celle-ci, mais au contraire, un sens négocié et co-construit par les interactants durant la conversation. Cette co-construction s'appuie sur l'hypothèse de l'existence d'un terrain commun, c'est-à-dire d'un ensemble de connaissances, hypothèses et croyances que le locuteur pense être partagées.
Notre travail a consisté à définir une mémoire interactionnelle pour la machine permettant le travail de négociation du sens. Cette mémoire contient des éléments de différents états organisés en arborescences. Ces éléments proviennent de l'interprétation des actes illocutoires de l'utilisateur et des résultats des raisonnements faits par les différentes activités du système de dialogue. Nous distinguons l'activité applicative dont le but est de fournir un service quelconque à l'utilisateur, l'activité langagière qui consiste à analyser les énoncés de l'utilisateur et générer les énoncés du système, et enfin l'activité dialogique qui consiste à dialoguer avec l'utilisateur. Les intentions de communications de la machine sont générées par la reconnaissance de configurations remarquables que nous avons définies en étudiant les arborescences qu'il est normalement possible d'obtenir. Ce principe de génération, à l'origine des actes langagiers de la machine, est général et indépendant de l'application. Il s'appuie uniquement sur la forme structurelle des éléments mnésiques (appelé UMM pour Unité Minimale de Mémoire) et sur le statut de ces derniers.
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Salter, Diane J. "Adolescent understanding of communicative intention in history texts, a developmental analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0016/NQ28049.pdf.
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Nakhal, Bilal. "Generation of communicative intentions for virtual agents in an intelligent virtual environment : application to virtual learning environment." Thesis, Brest, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017BRES0156/document.
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La réalité virtuelle joue un rôle majeur dans le développement de nouvelles technologies de l’éducation, et permet de développer des environnements virtuels pour l’apprentissage, dans lesquels, des agents virtuels intelligents jouent le rôle de tuteur. Ces agents sont censés aider les utilisateurs humains à apprendre et appliquer des procédures ayant des objectifs d’apprentissage prédéfini dans différents domaines. Nous travaillons sur la construction d’un système temps-réel capable d’entamer une interaction naturelle avec un utilisateur dans un Environnement d’Apprentissage Virtuel (EAV). Afin d’implémenter ce modèle, nous proposons d’utiliser MASCARET (Multi-Agent System for Collaborative, Adaptive & Realistic Environments for Training) comme modèle d’Environnement Virtuel Intelligent (EVI) afin de représenter la base de connaissances des agents, et de modéliser la sémantique de l’environnement virtuel et des activités des utilisateurs. Afin de formaliser l’intention des agents, nous implémentons un module cognitif dans MASCARET inspiré par l’architecture BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) qui nous permet de générer des intentions de haut-niveau pour les agents. Dans notre modèle, ces agents sont représentés par des Agents Conversationnels Animés (ACA), qui sont basés sur la plateforme SAIBA (Situation, Agent, Intention, Behavior, Animation). Les agents conversationnels de l’environnement ont des intentions communicatives qui sont transmises à l’utilisateur via des canaux de communication naturels, notamment les actes communicatifs et les comportements verbaux et non-verbaux. Afin d’évaluer notre modèle, nous l’implémentons dans un scénario pédagogique concret pour l’apprentissage des procédures d’analyse de sang dans un laboratoire biomédical. Nous utilisons cette application afin de réaliser une expérimentation et une étude pour valider les propositions de notre modèle. L’hypothèse de notre étude est de supposer que la présence d’un ACA dans un Environnement Virtuel (EV) améliore la performance du processus d’apprentissage (ou qu’au moins, ça ne le dégrade pas) dans le contexte de l’apprentissage d’une procédure spécifique. La performance de l’utilisateur est représentée par le temps requis pour l’exécution de la procédure, le nombre d’erreurs commises et le nombre de demande d’assistance. Nous analysons les résultats de cette évaluation, ce qui confirme partiellement l’hypothèse de l’expérience et affirme que la présence de l’ACA dans l’EV ne dégrade pas la performance de l’apprenant dans le contexte de l’apprentissage d’une procédureVirtual Reality plays a major role in developing new educational methodologies, and allows to develop virtual environments for learning where intelligent virtual agents play the role of tutors. These agents are expected to help human users to learn and apply domain-specific procedures with predefined learning outcomes. We work on building a real-time system able to sustain natural interaction with the user in a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). To implement this model, we propose to use the Multi-Agent System for Collaborative, Adaptive & Realistic Environments for Training (MASCARET) as an Intelligent Virtual Environment (IVE) model that provides the knowledge base to the agents and model the semantic of the virtual environment and user’s activities. To formalize the intention of the agents, we implement a cognitive module within MASCARET inspired by BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) architecture that permits us to generate high-level intentions for the agents. Furthermore, we integrate Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA), which are based on the SAIBA (Situation, Agent, Intention, Behavior, Animation) framework. The embodied agents of the environment have communicative intentions that are transmitted to the user through natural communication channels, namely the verbal and non-verbal communicative acts and behaviors of the ECAs. To evaluate our model, we implement it in a concrete pedagogical scenario for learning blood analysis procedures in a biomedical laboratory. We use this application to settle an experiment to validate the propositions of our model. The hypothesis of this experiment is to assume that the presence of anECA in a Virtual Environment (VE) enhances the learning performance (or at least does not degrade it) in the context of a learning procedure. The performance is represented by the time of execution, the number of committed errors and the number of requests for assistance. We analyze the results of this evaluation, which partially confirms the hypothesis of the experiment and assure that having an ECA in the VLE does not degrade the performance of the learner in the context of a learning procedure
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Guiraud, Nadine. "Une formalisation de l'intention communicative et des actes de langage expressifs." Toulouse 3, 2013. http://thesesups.ups-tlse.fr/2125/.
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Le but de cette thèse est de fournir une logique du comportement d'un agent artificiel interagissant rationnellement avec un humain. La rationalité de son comportement le rend capable d'une part de construire et suivre un plan de communication et d'autre part de respecter des conventions de communication. Notre recherche est orientée vers un modèle logique du raisonnement de l'agent sur ce qu'il dit et ressent, dans le but de rendre ses interactions avec un humain les plus naturelles possible pour ce dernier. La première étape de ce travail a été d'étendre une logique modélisant la mise à jour des croyances, afin que cette dernière soit réalisée selon un protocole de communication. Dans ce cadre, un agent qui suit un comportement coopératif respecte une certaine cohérence entre ce qu'il croit, ce qui est le cas, et ce qu'il peut dire selon son plan de communication. La deuxième étape a concerné l'expression des émotions. Cette modélisation est construite à partir de composantes plus primitives qui sont ce qu'un agent dit, ce qu'il aurait pu faire, sa représentation du monde, ses désirs et valeurs moralesThe aim of this thesis is to design a logic of the behavior of an artificial agent that interacts rationally with a human. The rationality of her behavior enables her on the one hand to build and follow communication plans and on the other hand to follow communication conventions. Our research is oriented towards a logical model of the agent's reasoning about what she says and feels with the aim of making her interactions with a human the most natural for the latter. The first step of our work was to extend a logic modeling belief update such that the update follows a communication's protocol. In this framework, an agent following the rules of cooperative behavior respects coherence between what she believes, what is the case, and what she can say according to her communication plan. The second step concerned the agent's expression of emotions. This modeling builds on primitives representing what an agent says, what she could have done, her representation of the world and her desires and moral values
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Гулієва, Діна Олександрівна. "Комунікативна стратегія критики (на матеріалі англомовного кінодискурсу)." Thesis, Родовід, 2018. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/48033.
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Висвітлено результати аналізу реалізації комунікативної стратегії критики в англомовному кінодискурсі. Зауважено, що критика є стратегією, комунікативним наміром суб’єкта якої є висловлення негативної оцінки об’єкта, як правило, людини, через невідповідність його/її поведінки онтологічним (утилітарним) нормам. Зроблено такі висновки: бенефіціантом критики є об’єкт оцінки: приведення поведінки у відповідність з утилітарними нормами піде йому/їй на користь; висловлення критики, як правило,
ініціюються суб’єктом оцінки; за способом втілення комунікативні дії критики є вербальними і невербальними; вербальні висловлення критики мають як експліцитний, так і імпліцитний спосіб вираження; вербальні і невербальні комунікативні дії критики доповнюють одна одну, взаємодіючи за принципом координації; висловлення критики можуть бути спрямованими на самого себе, втілюючи самокритику.The article presents the results of the analysis of the communicative strategy of criticism realized in the English cinema discourse. The research is done within the methodological framework of the cognitive-discursive approach to language where the criticism communicative strategy is viewed as a verbal / co-verbal expression of a negative assessment of a certain object (usually, a person) as demonstrating behaviour that deviates from the ontological (utilitarian) norms. The communicative intention of the subject of criticism is realised through verbal and co-verbal actions which interact on the principles of coordination. The verbal expression of criticism can be explicit, employing, among other means, negatively coloured nouns and adjectives, or implicit, employing rhetoric questions or any other linguistic units that can be interpreted as criticism in the situation of communication. Verbal utterances of criticism can be self-addressed to express self-criticism. The theoretical value of the research is determined by the implementation of the cognitive-discursive approach which makes it possible to analyse a speech strategy as a cognitive phenomenon, and its practical value is determined by the possibility of using the methodical technique developed in the paper to analyse other communicative strategies.
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LUDWICZAK, LEIGH ANN. "CHILDRENS' FIRST FIVE WORDS: AN ANALYSIS OF PERCEPTUAL FEATURES, GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES, AND COMMUNICATIVE INTENTIONS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin990647609.
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Bach, Kent. Reference, intention, and context. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198714217.003.0005.
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This chapter takes up some recently published arguments that purport to show that a demonstrative, as used on a given occasion, refers either on account of certain features of the context or in virtue of a certain speaker intention, which is distinct from the sort of referential intention that is part of the speaker’s total communicative intention. After these arguments are disposed of, it is argued that there is no good rationale for maintaining that demonstratives refer in their own right. Rather, they have meanings that constrain their literal use. Speakers can and do use them to refer and to communicate what they use them to refer to without there being any referential role for demonstratives themselves to play. If this is right, it raises some interesting questions for standard conceptions of semantics.
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Ferrari, G. R. F. Dressed to Communicate—Or Not. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798422.003.0002.
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Intimation is illustrated with an extended example: how we dress. Full-on communication with clothes is rare. The reason is this: unless the audience is already primed for a communication, your clothes must startle if they are to make your communicative intention unmistakable. Most of the messages we send when we dress, fashionably or otherwise, we send as half-on intimations. The chapter concentrates on the intentions of the individual dresser, contenting itself with the metaphor of the cultural ‘brand’ to explain how an entire culture may communicate with its clothes. The point of intimating with clothes is to get something across to another. Since clothes are the face we present to the world, this will most likely be something about ourselves; we tend to use clothes to offer a sample of ourselves. The chapter resists the idea that our clothes are never more than a social disguise.
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O’Collins, SJ, Gerald. Three ‘Intentions’ to Respect. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824183.003.0009.
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The inspired books of the Bible should be interpreted integrally. This involves respecting not only the ‘intention’ of the human authors who composed the sacred texts (the intentio auctoris), to the extent that this can be established, but also the ‘intention’ of the readers who take up the texts (the intentio legentis) and the ‘intention’ of the text itself (the intentio textus ipsius). We must respect what the original authors wanted to communicate but also acknowledge the insights of subsequent readers and the multiple meanings that emerge from the texts’ reception history. The historical-critical method, which studies the genesis and authorial meaning of our biblical texts, is necessary but insufficient. Where it lapses into an exegesis that separates itself from the faith community and purports to be impartial and ‘objective’, it may yield some specific results but hardly valuable insights into the inspired Scriptures as a whole.
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Bach, Kent. Exaggeration and Invention. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0003.
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In Imagination and Convention Lepore and Stone make two sweeping claims about language, convention, and communication. One is that linguistic communication is of what is conventionally encoded. The other, complementary, claim is that when speakers use language in nonconventional ways, their intention is not to communicate some specific thing but rather to invite the hearer into a bit of “imaginative engagement.” So understanding an utterance requires no more than disambiguating it; insofar as imaginative interpretation is required, its aim is distinct from understanding the utterance. I agree with L&S that linguistic convention is much more comprehensive than traditionally supposed and that language is often used figuratively without specific communicative intentions, but their two claims go implausibly further. Both are subject to counterexample and counterargument, and rely on reasoning that downplays some distinctions and disregards others, as abetted by casual use of such key terms as “meaning,” “interpretation,” “convention,” and “Gricean.”
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Stokke, Andreas. Communicating Attitudes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825968.003.0010.
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This chapter extends the analysis of insincere language use from the last chapter to non-declarative utterances, including imperative, interrogative, and exclamative utterances. It argues that such utterances communicate information about the speaker’s attitudes. The chapter offers an account of insincerity in the non-declarative realm that is shallow. On this view, a non-declarative utterance is insincere when it is made without a conscious intention to avoid communicating information not matching the speaker’s conscious attitudes. A notion of a communicative act is defined, and the chapter argues that only such acts can be evaluated as insincere or not. A framework for understanding the semantics and pragmatics of non-declarative clause types is sketched and the chapter shows how it explains why non-declaratives cannot be used to lie.
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Rollins, Pamela Rosenthal. Developmental Pragmatics. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.6.
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This chapter traces the development of communicative intention, conversation, and narrative in early interaction from infancy to early childhood. True communicative intention commences once the infant acquires the social cognitive ability to share attention and intention with another. The developing child’s pragmatic understanding is reflective of his/her underlying motivations for cooperation and shared intentionality. As children begin to understand others’ mental states, they can take others’ perspectives and understand what knowledge is shared and with whom, moving from joint perceptual focus to more decontextualized communicative intentions. With adult assistance, the young child is able to engage in increasingly more sophisticated conversational exchanges and co-constructed narratives which influence the child’s autonomous capabilities.
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Feldman, Lauren. Assumptions About Science in Satirical News and Late-Night Comedy. Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dan M. Kahan, and Dietram A. Scheufele. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190497620.013.35.
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Because satirical news programs such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report pay substantial attention to science, this chapter considers their significance as sources of science attitudes and information. The first section of the chapter discusses general attributes of satirical news and how these may help foster public attention to, active engagement with, and understanding of science. The chapter then highlights limitations on the capacity of satire to communicate science, including the challenge of conveying the seriousness of certain science issues while using humor, the potential for audience misreading of satiric intention, the inherent divisiveness of satire, and the tension between communication goals and the authenticity of satiric performance. The chapter draws on studies that have explicitly analyzed the role of satirical news programs in a science communication context while also raising important unanswered research questions.
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Stokke, Andreas. Shallow Insincerity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825968.003.0009.
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This chapter argues for a shallow conception of insincerity. It argues that whether an utterance is insincere depends on the speaker’s conscious attitudes toward what is communicated as well as on his or her conscious intentions in making the utterance. Various ways of speaking spontaneously and of speaking without thinking are considered. A broad characterization of insincerity for declarative utterances is set out, according to which a declarative utterance is when it is made without a conscious intention to contribute an answer to a question under discussion that corresponds to one’s conscious attitudes, while avoiding communicating false information in the process.
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Salter, Diane J. Adolescent understanding of communicative intention in history texts: A developmental analysis. 1997.
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Simons, Mandy. Convention, Intention, and the Conversational Record. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0015.
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Lepore and Stone 2015 advocate a view which turns the Gricean picture of meaning on its head: they argue that the most basic type of meaning intention is one which presupposes the notion of conventional meaning. In this essay, I argue that evidence from language acquisition supports the Gricean view, according to which communicative intentions are analytically more basic than linguistic convention. I point out further, though, that Grice’s view recognizes the role of conventionality in meaning, a point neglected in Lepore and Stone’s critique. Lepore and Stone extend their convention-driven view by advocating a model on which the Conversational Record reflects only conventionally licensed conversational updates. I present evidence from conversation that shows that such a view of the record cannot account for certain types of standard conversational events.
Book chapters on the topic "Intention to Communicate"
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Lei, Soey Sut Ieng, Ksenia Kirillova, and Dan Wang. "Factors Influencing Customers’ Intention to Use Instant Messaging to Communicate with Hotels." In Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2018, 296–307. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72923-7_23.
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Fuest, Tanja, Anna Sophia Maier, Hanna Bellem, and Klaus Bengler. "How Should an Automated Vehicle Communicate Its Intention to a Pedestrian? – A Virtual Reality Study." In Human Systems Engineering and Design II, 195–201. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27928-8_30.
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Macagno, Fabrizio, and Douglas Walton. "Communicative Intentions and Commitments." In Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 35–64. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62545-4_2.
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Fetzer, Anita. "Communicative intentions in context." In Rethinking Sequentiality, 37–69. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.103.03fet.
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Sanders, Ted, and Wilbert Spooren. "Communicative Intentions and Coherence Relations." In Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse, 235. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.63.18san.
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Brown III, Robert D. "Clearly Communicate the Intentions of Decision Strategies." In Business Case Analysis with R, 125–28. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3495-2_8.
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Jarmolowicz-Nowikow, Ewa. "Are Pointing Gestures Induced by Communicative Intention?" In Cognitive Behavioural Systems, 377–89. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34584-5_33.
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Riviere, Jeremy, Carole Adam, and Sylvie Pesty. "A Reasoning Module to Select ECA’s Communicative Intention." In Intelligent Virtual Agents, 447–54. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8_46.
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Blaylock, Nate, James Allen, and George Ferguson. "Managing Communicative Intentions with Collaborative Problem Solving." In Text, Speech and Language Technology, 63–84. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0019-2_4.
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Bar-On, Dorit. "Communicative Intentions, Expressive Communication, and Origins of Meaning." In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds, 301–12. 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge handbooks in philosophy: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315742250-29.
Full textConference papers on the topic "Intention to Communicate"
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MacDonald, Daniel E., Thangam Natarajan, Richard C. Windeyer, Peter Coppin, and David A. Steinman. "Data-Driven Sonification of CFD Aneurysm Models." In The 24th International Conference on Auditory Display. Arlington, Virginia: The International Community for Auditory Display, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21785/icad2018.010.
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A novel method is presented for inspecting and characterizing turbulent-like hemodynamic structures in intracranial cerebral aneurysms by sonification of data generated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The intention of the current research is to intuitively communicate flow complexity by augmenting conventional flow visualizations with data-driven sound, thereby increasing the ease of interpretation of dense spatiotemporal data through multimodal presentation. The described implementation allows the user to listen to flow fluctuations thought to indicate turbulent-like blood flow patterns that are often visually difficult to discriminate in conventional flow visualizations.
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Yalcin, Cuneyt, Robert B. Jerard, and Barry K. Fussell. "Milling Cutter Data Structures for Use in Force Models." In ASME 2009 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2009-84368.
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In this study we present a new general representation for describing a milling cutter and an internal data structure that systematically stores the cutting edge segment properties of the milling cutter. The intention of this effort is to enable commercial milling simulation software packages to communicate and store complicated cutter information, and thus enable them to include improved models developed in academic research. Examples with various milling cutters are given, and the versatility of the structures is demonstrated by using two different cutting force models with three different milling cutters. Force calculation time was decreased by a factor of four by using the internal data structure to store pre-calculated trigonometric functions.
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Ludwig Weiß, Sebastian, Daniel Eisele, and Tibor Petzoldt. "External Human-Machine-Interfaces on Automated Vehicles: Which message and perspective do pedestrians in crossing situations understand best?" In Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2022) Integrating People and Intelligent Systems. AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100960.
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In the future, external-Human-Machine-Interfaces (eHMIs) may facilitate the communication between automated vehicles (AVs) and nearby pedestrians. The aim of this study was to investigate which messages (AVs’ intention to yield or not to yield) and perspective (does the message refer to the behavior of the vehicle or the behavior that is expected of the pedestrian) of eHMIs are understood best in terms of objective comprehension, subjective comprehensibility, and speed. Participants in an online study (N = 85) indicated whether they can safely cross or not in reaction to six different eHMI icons. Messages that tell them to cross the street were understood better and faster compared to those that instructed them not to do so. Those referring to the pedestrian were best understood objectively as well as subjectively. We advise caution regarding eHMIs that communicate that the AV is not yielding / that the pedestrian cannot cross
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Jacobus, Frank, and Marc Manack. "Remote Control: The Natural Language of Architecture." In 2018 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.2018.30.
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The architectural design process is a means of translating information into form, and has long relied on indirect (“remote”) control mechanisms for communicating and translating the architect’s authorial intent into a built work. These methods have generally evolved from a more direct, physical basis, as both technology and the discipline have evolved. To communicate design ideas, architects have relied on methodologies that range from an extreme desire for control, to models that attempt to relinquish many controls entirely. Early communication models, in part due to lack of material, form, and program diversity, allowed for a less systematic and complex descriptive method; inscriptions in the earth, physical detail models along with a set of instructions, or simple scale models of the intention were all that was required.2 As cultures and their technologies advanced, communication methods such as scaled orthographic drawings, specifications and other forms of written instructions, and now fully realized Building Information Models, have become normative practice in a profession that looks for total control of the built work before it is physically realized. Apart from the communicative control models mentioned above, there are authorial models which have also progressed in complexity and abstraction alongside societal advancements. In the discipline’s infancy, authorship involved subtle evolutions of proportion and order within a well-established typological system. In modernism, the authorial models evolved as architects experimented with increased typological invention in response to a radically changing technological and social environment. Advancing to the contemporary “digital” moment, architects continue to develop systems to control complexities within the work, mapping strategies that deal with collecting and spatializing data, while others see contemporary design tools as a means to relinquish some design control to outside forces whose unexpected potential is compelling. This paper gives examples of remote communicative and authorial controls, and posits a new theory of the potential meaningful effects of leveraging these control mechanisms in new ways using three projects by SILO AR+D.
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Lopez, Christian E., Zixuan V. Zhao, and Conrad S. Tucker. "Semantic Network Differences Across Engineering Design Communication Methods." In ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-97728.
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Abstract Engineering designers have a variety of methods at their disposal when it comes to communicating an idea (e.g., Linguistic, Pictorial, Virtual). Studies have explored how these methods affect the idea generation process, revealing that some methods can induce design fixation and reduce creativity. Moreover, studies reveal that depending on the communication methods and a receiver’s familiarity with the idea conveyed, the amount of relevant information transmitted could vary. Hence, based on previous studies, it is hypothesized that different communication methods and a receiver’s familiarity can impact a receiver’s ability to construct and interpret the information conveyed. To test this hypothesis, an experiment is conducted in which multiple methods are used to communicate different product ideas to individuals (N = 370). Participants are asked to describe the products in their own words and provide details about their functions. A text-mining approach is used to analyze the semantic structure of their responses. The results reveal that dissemination methods affect the consistency of participants’ responses, as well as the diversity of words used to describe a product idea or its functions. This knowledge can help designers in the selection of an appropriate method, given the design intention and help them leverage different methods to maximize communication effectiveness during the different stages of the design process.
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Ebert, Felipe, Fernando Castor, Nicole Novielli, and Alexander Serebrenik. "Communicative Intention in Code Review Questions." In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icsme.2018.00061.
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Brigham, Lawson, and Erik Smith. "The Future of Arctic Marine Navigation in Mid-Century - Scenario Narratives." In SNAME 8th International Conference and Exhibition on Performance of Ships and Structures in Ice. SNAME, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/icetech-2008-160.
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This document serves as the final Scenario Narratives Report for the Future of Arctic Marine Navigation in Mid-Century, a project of the Arctic Council’s Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) working group and Global Business Network (GBN), a member of the Monitor Group. The purpose of this project, and these scenarios, is to systematically consider the long-term social, technological, economic, environmental, and political impacts on Arctic Marine Navigation of Key Finding #6 of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) published by the Arctic Council and the International Arctic Science Committee in November 2004. These scenarios are meant to summarize and communicate a set of plausible and different stories of the future in which critical uncertainties play out in ways that challenge planning decisions being made in the present. For this scenarios project on the Future of Arctic Marine Navigation, we convened two workshops to gather the perspectives and ideas of a highly diverse group of stakeholders. The first workshop was held at the GBN office in San Francisco in April 2007, and the second at the offices of Aker Arctic Technology in Helsinki in July 2007. Because this project rests on Key Finding #6, all of the scenarios assume continued global climate change that results in significantly less Arctic ice cover, at least in the summer, throughout the 2030s and 2040s. It is our intention that these scenarios will provide material for deeper discussions about the future and earlier decisions by the countries, peoples, and industries active in the Arctic region.
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Beach, David. "Developing Intent and Application Through Virtual Design-Build." In Schools of Thought Conference. University of Oklahoma, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/11244/335066.
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The process of design-build links intention and application within a curriculum that is difficult to replicate in a traditional educational studio. While most effective in the analogue world, design-build can be simulated within a classroom by leveraging virtual reality as a curriculum connecting client, spatial immersion, precedent study, construction, fabrication, and a digital design toolset. This paper and presentation will outline a course curriculum for second-year design students at the Hammons School of Architecture that leverages the pedagogy of design-build within a virtual process. The project connects specific intent for our client by crafting spatial experiences for the CHIL (Children’s Hospital Innovation Lab) Zone, a pediatric care unit of Montefiore Medical Center in New York that brings technology to their patients. Leveraging tools like AR (alternate reality), VR (virtual reality), and 3D fabrication, patients in the CHIL Zone are moved virtually beyond the confines of rooms when their medical limitations often reduce their opportunities for exploration. Approaching the process in a parallel modality to a design-build curriculum, student application happens through the construction of virtual versions of a precedent design study, including site, phasing, construction methods, details, and basic communication of the spatial concepts for their clients (kids from twelve to eighteen in a pediatric care unit). The process happens within the immersive qualities of virtual reality, creating a narrative about the architectural design that each student must communicate. Each project is resolved by finalizing a VR “docummersion” film that includes the precedent study and specific spatial elements of their own design. This process is directly generating new understandings of the design-build process. It is developing considerations of architecture and design thinking, including spatial exploration as a form of rehabilitation and health care, architectural design intended solely for use in virtual reality, and the connection of virtual reality and cognitive spatial awareness for design education.
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KLEIN, M. "UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATIVE INTENTIONS USING SIMULATED ROLE-REVERSAL." In Proceedings of the 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812834232_0001.
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Schuler, Katharina, Laura Quante, Caroline Schießl, Matthias Beggiato, and Georg Jahn. "Communication between drivers in a road bottleneck scenario." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002461.
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Background. With the introduction of automated vehicles, communication between automated and human road users is becoming increasingly important. In the future, automated vehicles must be able to recognize the behavioral intentions of conventional road users to react in accordance with expectations. In urban traffic, many everyday situations are not clearly regulated by traffic rules, requiring road users to negotiate with each other as to who has the right of way. An example of such a situation is a two-sided road bottleneck, in which the right of way is not explicitly defined, so that road users must negotiate with each other who will pass the bottleneck first. Since this scenario has been little studied so far, this work’s objective is a detailed description of the communication behavior of drivers when passing a two-sided bottleneck in order to gain insights for the development of driving strategies for autonomous vehicles. Method. Video material of 100 encounters between drivers at a two-sided road bottleneck in Braunschweig, Germany, was analyzed with respect to the type, order and duration of communication signals by manual annotation. Interrater reliability showed a moderate to almost perfect agreement for all collected variables, which included both explicit (e.g. hand gestures, turn signal, headlight flasher) and implicit (vehicle dynamics) communication signals. The identified communication signals were further combined into communication sequences to map the temporal sequence of communication signals used by the drivers. Additionally, drivers were studied in more detail with respect to their arrival and passing order.Results. The results indicate that explicit communication takes a minor role in the bottleneck scenario and that drivers primarily communicate by means of implicit signals. Furthermore, no informal rule could be found with respect to arrival and passing order. The results rather indicate that the passing order of the two drivers is related to the type and timing of the communication signals shown. In the observed encounters, a braking maneuver was the most frequently shown first behavioral change, which in most cases was shown by drivers who passed the bottleneck second. The data obtained also indicate that differences between drivers who pass first vs. second can be found especially with respect to offensive and defensive communication signals. Drivers who passed the bottleneck first, showed both more frequent and longer acceleration maneuvers as well as lateral movements toward the center of the road. Drivers who passed the bottleneck second, on the other hand, communicated both more frequently and longer using defensive signals, i.e. braking, coming to a stop, or initiating a lateral movement to the side of the road. Furthermore, characteristic communication sequences were found for both driver groups, namely drivers who pass first vs. second. A communication sequence, in which the narrow passage was passed at a constant speed, in some cases accompanied by a braking maneuver followed by an acceleration, was identified for drivers passing the narrow passage first. On the other hand, communication sequences in which the driver braked and drove to the side of the road, were associated with drivers who passed the bottleneck second. Conclusion. The communication sequences identified in this work provide initial guidance on what behavioral strategies might be used to signal a drivers’ intention to pass a two-sided bottleneck first or second. The results can thus be considered as a first basis for the realization of an expectation-compliant communication behavior of automated vehicles in a bottleneck scenario. One goal of future research should be to derive concrete and generalizable action recommendations for automated vehicles, so that the automation is able to cope with the scenario in an expectation-compliant manner by means of cooperative behavior strategies.
Reports on the topic "Intention to Communicate"
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Білоконенко, Л. А. The conflict potential of Ukrainian and Russian phraseology with the value of deception. Криворізький державний педагогічний університет, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/0564/1816.
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Potential conflict of Ukrainian and Russian phraseology was investigated with the value of deception. Author analyzed specific features of falsehood, lies and falsehood, their varieties, defined circle of conflict of values, which is realized with phraseological units are indicated, communicative and pragmatic intentions of the identified are established.
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Rukundo, Solomon. Tax Amnesties in Africa: An Analysis of the Voluntary Disclosure Programme in Uganda. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2020.005.
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Tax amnesties have taken centre stage as a compliance tool in recent years. The OECD estimates that since 2009 tax amnesties in 40 jurisdictions have resulted in the collection of an additional €102 billion in tax revenue. A number of African countries have introduced tax amnesties in the last decade, including Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania. Despite their global popularity, the efficacy of tax amnesties as a tax compliance tool remains in doubt. The revenue is often below expectations, and it probably could have been raised through effective use of regular enforcement measures. It is also argued that tax amnesties might incentivise non-compliance – taxpayers may engage in non-compliance in the hope of benefiting from an amnesty. This paper examines the administration of tax amnesties in various jurisdictions around the world, including the United States, Australia, Canada, Kenya and South Africa. The paper makes a cost-benefit analysis of these and other tax amnesties – and from this analysis develops a model tax amnesty, whose features maximise the benefits of a tax amnesty while minimising the potential costs. The model tax amnesty: (1) is permanent, (2) is available only to taxpayers who make a voluntary disclosure, (3) relieves taxpayers of penalties, interest and the risk of prosecution, but treats intentional and unintentional non-compliance differently, (4) has clear reporting requirements for taxpayers, and (5) is communicated clearly to attract non-compliant taxpayers without appearing unfair to the compliant ones. The paper then focuses on the Ugandan tax amnesty introduced in July 2019 – a Voluntary Disclosure Programme (VDP). As at 7 November 2020, this initiative had raised USh16.8 billion (US$6.2 million) against a projection of USh45 billion (US$16.6 million). The paper examines the legal regime and administration of this VDP, scoring it against the model tax amnesty. It notes that, while the Ugandan VDP partially matches up to the model tax amnesty, because it is permanent, restricted to taxpayers who make voluntary disclosure and relieves penalties and interest only, it still falls short due to a number of limitations. These include: (1) communication of the administration of the VDP through a public notice, instead of a practice note that is binding on the tax authority; (2) uncertainty regarding situations where a VDP application is made while the tax authority has been doing a secret investigation into the taxpayer’s affairs; (3) the absence of differentiated treatment between taxpayers involved in intentional non-compliance, and those whose non-compliance may be unintentional; (4) lack of clarity on how the VDP protects the taxpayer when non-compliance involves the breach of other non-tax statutes, such as those governing financial regulation; (5)absence of clear timelines in the administration of the VDP, which creates uncertainty;(6)failure to cater for voluntary disclosures with minor errors; (7) lack of clarity on VDP applications that result in a refund position for the applicant; and (8) lack of clarity on how often a VDP application can be made. The paper offers recommendations on how the Ugandan VDP can be aligned to match the model tax amnesty, in order to gain the most from this compliance tool.
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CDRmare Code of Conduct. CDRmare Research Mission, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3289/cdrmare.16.
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General intention: The CDRmare community developed this Code of Conduct to communicate our common understanding of basic values and rules for respectful cooperation and communication. These guidelines aim at identifying the core ethical values for conducting research within the CDRmare community, establishing an example and developing this further within the wider marine science community and partner institutions. The CDRmare Code of Conduct applies to everyone, regardless of their level or field of experience, gender or gender identity, age, national origin or nationality, cultural background, religious creed, sexual orientation, family status or health condition. We encourage all CDRmare members to implement and transmit the values of the Code of Conduct within and outside the CDRmare environment such as their working groups, research departments and institutes.