Language Use Approach to Human-Computer Interaction

摘要

In this report, elements of Herbert Clark's theory of language use as a form of joint action are examined as a paradigmatic basis for the design of human-computer interaction. Particular attention is given to me theory's characterization of the function and nature of common ground and the form of joint actions in communicative acts. This is balanced with a presentation of work to develop an application user interface that employs a cognitive simulation to represent portions of user-computer common ground computationally as it accumulates in the joint activity of its underlying application task. It is argued that some form of computational modeling of common ground is imperative in the design of simulated cognition for interactive purposes.