Appropriate communication is at the heart of successful, healthy social interactions in humans. Deficits in social communication are a hallmark of several neurological and psychiatric disorders. Yet, very little research has been devoted to understanding the mechanisms underlying these issues. It has been suggested that dopamine is a candidate neurotransmitter system involved in stimulating com...

The owners of social networks and researchers who are interested in text information processing recognize and use genre to identify network resource and participating in mutually understood communicative acts. Many studies have shown that, the genre can improve the ability to access resource in the information pool, such as music and book community. Some linguists describe genre as a distinctiv...

In this paper, a representation formalism based on actions and hierarchical plans is proposed to model the aspectual and temporal composition of sentences. Action verbs are interpreted as (possibly un-derspeciied) instances of action schemata that include a plan body; the interpretation process is carried out in an incremental way: the other linguistic elements, like tense and adverbs, are eval...

Recent empirical studies have implicated the use of the motor system during action observation, imitation and social interaction. In this paper, we explore the computational parallels between the processes that occur in motor control and in action observation, imitation, social interaction and theory of mind. In particular, we examine the extent to which motor commands acting on the body can be...

Teaching with evaluative feedback involves expectations about how a learner will interpret rewards and punishments. We formalize two hypotheses of how a teacher implicitly expects a learner to interpret feedback – a reward-maximizing model based on standard reinforcement learning and an action-feedback model based on research on communicative intent – and describe a virtual animal-training task...

The paper presents evidence that speakers often attempt to get hearers to identify referents as a separate step in the speaker's plan. Many of the communicative acts performed in service of such referent identification steps can be analyzed by extending a plan-based theory of communication for task-oriented dialogues to include an action representing a hearer's identifying the referent of a des...

In this paper an action approach to requirements engineering is outlined. The approach is based on a language action view of information systems, organisations and business. Theoretical standpoints and methodological consequences are presented and elaborated. One conclusion is that requirements engineering ought to be viewed as actability engineering in order to perceive information systems as ...

In both biometrics and facial expression recognition, previous literature emphasizes the configuration of facial features instead of their dynamics. I propose that dynamics provide essential information about person identity, neural control, communicative intent, and interpersonal coordination. To investigate this hypothesis, my colleagues and I have used multiple methods, including perceptual ...

The ability to recognize human activities is necessary to facilitate natural interaction between humans and robots. While humans can distinguish between communicative actions and activities of daily living, robots cannot draw such inferences effectively. To allow intuitive human robot interaction, we propose the use of human-like stylized gestures as communicative actions and contrast them from...

This article describes an action research experience carried out in an advanced English as a foreign language classroom of the language program at a university in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2010. The study proposes the inclusion of authentic literary texts in the English as a foreign language classroom through the implementation of four constructivist approaches as a means to develop intercul-tural c...