Judging Ordinary Meaning

Narrative and Meaning in Ordinary Interactive Software

Narrative representations have become recognized as an important tool for software design. Such design techniques as use-cases and the user stories of eXtreme Programming [26] exploit narrative’s ability to represent a complex sequence of actions in a coherent, systematic structure. This is true, not only of games, storytelling systems and other directly narrative applications, but also of ordi...

Finding Meaning in Others' Intentions: The Process of Judging Intentional Behaviors and Intentionality Itself

Judging the evidence.

Judging academic pathology chairpersons.

In their article, “Chairpersons of Pathology in the United States: Benchmarks for Academic Publications and Professional Credentials,” Wick and Stoler1 focus on issues that are both provocative and controversial. Prompted by their concern for the falling rate of recruitment of US medical school graduates into pathology residency training programs, Wick and Stoler conducted an objective study to...

Judging orthodontic treatment complexity

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate possible relations between anticipated overall treatment complexity (AOTC) of an orthodontic case and malocclusion characteristics. METHODS Two groups of orthodontists (groups A and B) were asked to define perceived treatment complexity (PTC) of orthodontic cases based on 16 characteristics of malocclusion by means of a questionnaire. ...