Monday, 10 November 2008

Session 6 workshop

Part B
Common ground:
In a conversation, the participants may have different backgrounds or bring different knowledge and experiences. During the conversation, they would like to obtain a common ground (which is a shared understanding sufficient for the task in hand) rather than unify their background and knowledge. The process is called ‘grounding’.

Affordance:
A fact of the environment and a fact of behaviour, that allows an individual to perform an action. The term is used in a variety of fields: perceptual psychology, cognitive psychology, environmental psychology, industrial design, human–computer interaction (HCI), interaction design and artificial intelligence.
In 1979, Gibson defined affordances as all "action possibilities" latent in the environment, objectively measurable and independent of the individual's ability to recognize them, but always in relation to the actor and therefore dependent on their capabilities.
In 1988, Donald Norman appropriated the term affordances in the context of human–machine interaction to refer to just those action possibilities which are readily perceivable by an actor. (Wikipedia)

Space:
Environment

Deictic reference:
Use different words from human language to define where, who or when does the information come from. For example, ‘I say something here’, that is from my view; but from others’ views, it should be ‘You say something there’. In addition, there is another situation when someone else describes this to others later. In this case, it should be ‘She/He says something there before’.

Design
1.There should be someone to taking control of the technology (voice, how to open and ending the conversation).
2.Proceed on what we agreed on last meeting.
3.Mention the time consuming.
4.Need their support.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

You provide a comprehensive description of the concepts covered in the lecture. You also discuss ways of improving communication and show a clear understanding of how emotional and language problems can be addressed. Well done!

You should also think about designing systems that can support people when communicating. What technologies are available for both companies? How can you use technologies (and which ones) to help people coordinate their activities, exchange information (e.g. reports and documentation) and ultimately communicate better?

Jose-Rodrigo said...

agree with Andrie, good introduction of concepts, how is technology going to help your plan?