This theoretical reflection intends to show the inter-subjective relationship that takes place in health and nursing practices under the following theoretical perspectives: Institutional Analysis, Psychodynamics of Labor and the Theory of Communicative Action, with an emphasis on the latter. Linking these concepts to the Marxist approach to work in the field of health emerges from recognizing t...

We present a computational semantics of communicative actions for rational agent programming languages. Three indicators are used to differentiate declarative, interrogative and imperative messages which replace the usual labels to identify socalled speech acts. We introduce a multi-agent verification logic based on the computational semantics that facilitates reasoning about communicative acti...

BACKGROUND In the context of interacting activities requiring close-body contact such as fighting or dancing, the actions of one agent can be used to predict the actions of the second agent. In the present study, we investigated whether interpersonal predictive coding extends to interactive activities--such as communicative interactions--in which no physical contingency is implied between the m...

generally effortless and effective. We exchange glances, take turns speaking and make facial and manual gestures to achieve the goals of the dialogue. This paper describes an action composition and selection architecture of characters capable of full-duplex, real-time face-to-face interaction with a human. This architecture is part of a computational model of psychosocial dialogue skills, calle...

I use the label verbs of communication to designate verbs of the following type: warn, admit, threaten, state, deny, request, guess and assert. All of these are verbs which refer to some aspect of an interaction between persons which at least partly involves communication. The term "verbs of communication" has been chosen rather than the otherwise common term "speech act verbs" since those aspe...

In long-term care facilities, the participation of older people relates to individual care provision (individual level) and to policy decisions that affect all residents in a care organization (collective level). In the Netherlands, resident councils are set up in order to improve resident participation on a collective level. However, our research shows that managers and resident councils are f...