Giving good advice?

Affective Advice Giving Dialogs

In affective dialog simulation, recognition and interpretation of the affective state of the user should be integrated with display of empathy by the system and with dialog planning and execution. Cognitive models dealing with the inherent uncertainty of this interpretation are the method we propose to adopt. We describe how we integrated these models in an information-state approach to dialog ...

Giving Advice Social Dynamics

Being involved with the Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences during the past five years has markedly increased my awareness of the difficulties faced by organizations that attempt to provide various governmental bodies with scientific advice on social problems. Much of that advice has to do with the interactions of social variables, what we call social dynamics. The first part of these re...

Giving and Receiving Advice∗

This paper reviews literature on communication between informed experts and uninformed decision makers. The research provides some insight into what constitutes a persuasive statement and under what conditions a decision maker will benefit from consulting an expert. I classify the literature along four dimensions: strategic, technological, institutional, and cultural. To the extent that decisio...

Advice-Giving Systems for Selecting Interaction Objects

Giving advice on long-acting contraception

Before reading on, think about how this article may help you to do your job better. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s areas of competence for pharmacists are listed in “Plan and record” (available at: www.uptodate. org.uk). This article relates to “decision-making and problemsolving in relation to drug therapy” and “health education and promotion” (see appendix 4 of “Plan and record”). Giving ...