Recipient design in tacit communication

Recipient design in tacit communication.

The ability to design tailored messages for specific listeners is an important aspect of human communication. The present study investigates whether a mere belief about an addressee's identity influences the generation and production of a communicative message in a novel, non-verbal communication task. Participants were made to believe they were playing a game with a child or an adult partner, ...

Recipient design in human communication: simple heuristics or perspective taking?

Humans have a remarkable capacity for tuning their communicative behaviors to different addressees, a phenomenon also known as recipient design. It remains unclear how this tuning of communicative behavior is implemented during live human interactions. Classical theories of communication postulate that recipient design involves perspective taking, i.e., the communicator selects her behavior bas...

Auction Design with Tacit Collusion∗

We study an auction design problem where the auctioneer anticipates that bidders collude tacitly. We model tacit collusion in the following way: whichever auction the auctioneer announces, it becomes the stage game of a corresponding repeated game, and out of all sequential equilibria of the resulting repeated game, bidders play the one that maximizes their total ex ante payoff. We show that an...

SILENT AGENTS: From Observation to Tacit Communication

Observation, and more specifically 'signification' (the capability to interpret and ascribe meaning to observed facts) is the basis of a very crucial form of Communication without words or special protocols. Efficient coordination – in humans but also in artificial Agents – exploits or should exploit not just 'observation' but more precisely this form of silent communication: when Agent X relie...

Sharing Tacit Design Knowledge in a Distributed Design Environment