In this paper the architecture and implementation of Cooperative Information Agents (CIA) is described. Taking a language-action perspective to the design of CIAs allows for the specification of obligations and authorizations, and results in the separation of tasks (things the agentmust do) and contracts (mutually agreed commitments to the course of communication). The architecture describes th...

Good communication is the basis for effective cooperation. An area where cooperation is essential is multidisciplinary healthcare. In this paper we will present a research project that aims at promoting effective multidisciplinary communication in a healthcare environment. We will answer the question of whether empirical modelling of the communication and cooperation patterns can be done based ...

When people or organizations provide information, they make choices regarding what they include and how they represent it. These two aspects combined (the content and the stance) represent a perspective. Investigating perspectives can provide useful insights into the reliability of information, changes in viewpoints over time, shared beliefs among social or political groups and contrasts with o...

This article concerns the use of digital learning resources in the Swedish Social Science classroom. The aim is to find specific patterns in pupils ́ subject related interaction and learning when they work with digital learning resources. This is illustrated by means of a Learning Design Sequence LDS which is a model for research and analysis developed within the project Digital media and learni...

conclusions the combination of intravenous paracetamol 1 gr and ketamine 0.5 mg/kg resulted in an overall reduction in pain scores, decreased postoperative analgesic requirements, and lower agitation score compared with intravenous paracetamol 1 gr and tramadol 0.7 mg/kg for patients undergoing renal surgery. results postoperative pain scores were significantly lower in the pk group than in the...

YouTube apology videos have been identified by some as a genre, and such they unique recognizable features available for recontextualization parody. The three parodies analyzed are of two videos: Logan Paul’s “So Sorry,” response to his suicide forest controversy, Travis Scott's video the Astroworld Tragedy. videos, an audio-visual medium, extremely multimodal, with many opportunities linguisti...

Adopting the methods of multimodal conversation analysis, this study demonstrates that adult second language (L2) users with emergent literacy formulate requests as ‘complex Gestalts’ consisting prototypically deictic or depictive gestures combined gaze, situationally relevant material, and vocal linguistic resources. The data obtained for are from classroom interactions out-of-class service en...