I argue that the analysis of different kinds of cooperation will benefit from an account of the cognitive and communicative functions required for that cooperation. I review different models of cooperation in game theory—reciprocal altruism, indirect reciprocity, cooperation about future goals, and conventions—with respect to their cognitive and communicative prerequisites. The cognitive factor...

Improving the public's understanding of statistical information requires that producers or reporters of statistical messages are aware of: The nature of people's statistics literacy, The factors that affect the difficulty of statistics-related messages, The existence of individual or group differences in statistics literacy; and The information needs of different target audiences. Implications ...

Gestural communication is a modality considered in the literature as a candidate for determining the ancestral prerequisites of the emergence of human language. As reported in captive chimpanzees and human children, a study in captive baboons revealed that a communicative gesture elicits stronger degree of right-hand bias than non-communicative actions. It remains unclear if it is the communica...

This paper addresses the following questions: (1) Is it true, as is often claimed, that utterances in dialogue tend to have multiple functions? (2) If so, then what are the reasons for that? (3) How many functions does a dialogue utterance typically have, and which factors determine this? (4) What consequences does this have for the computational semantics of dialogue utterances? Answers to the...

This paper presents the author’s view on prosody, information, and models, as well as on the roles of physiology, physics and mathematics in modeling, and describes the theoretical and experimental bases of the command-response model for the mechanisms of F0 contour generation, which has been extensively used in the analysis and synthesis of F0 contours of utterances of various languages. Altho...

The ETNA project explored the audio and video quality requirements for a range of networked realtime multimedia applications. When the project began, there was little applicable knowledge in the human factors community as to the specific audio-visual requirements that different sorts of communicative tasks might demand. The ETNA project showed that these differ according to specific task and us...

I will focus on the latter part of the question, and I will try to provide an answer by taking what seems to me a necessary preliminary step, namely, by identifying the factors underlying the speaker's communicative intentions. Some of these factors have been identified for example by [LA90; Po186] as the beliefs and intentions that the speaker (S for short, and referred to with feminine pronou...

This paper briefly outlines observa.tions fi'om texts made with respect to rhetorical relations and communicative goals. Then it will be shown how these ol)servations have been encoded into knowledge resources which are part of an integrated architecture for the gelmration of multimedia output. Both communicative goals and rhetorical relations are virtual constructs surface signals hint at thei...