Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!titan!bro From: bro@titan.rice.edu (Douglas Monk) Newsgroups: comp.groupware Subject: Re: Group Communication Protocols Message-ID: <4150@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 6 Jan 90 03:17:30 GMT References: <4318@nttmhs.ntt.JP> <90005.104713UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> Sender: root@rice.edu Reply-To: bro@titan.rice.edu (Douglas Monk) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 37 In article esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) writes: >In article <90005.104713UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes: >>In article <4318@nttmhs.ntt.JP>, yam@nttmhs.ntt.jp (Toshihiko YAMAKAMI) says: >>> What types of high level group communication >>>protocols do we use in group activities? >Fernando Flores did some work with Terry Winograd of Stanford in the >early Eighties on this taxonomy. (Does anyone have a good citation >for this stuff, i.e., generally available outside university libraries >and written in some variant of English?) "Understanding Computers and Cognition; A New Foundation for Design", by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, published by Addison-Wesley. I have a paperback copy, (c) 1986, 1987 by Ablex Publishing. I got it at Rice's Campus Bookstore, but have seen it at well-stocked technical bookstores. >[I did some work with Fernando in the mid-Eighties, when he maintained >that a rather rigid taxonomy (only four categories) was sufficient for >*all* communication. (This is the basis of the 'Coordinator', one of >the first groupware packages.)] I find a taxonomy of "illocutionary acts" attributed to John Searle on pages 58-59 with five categories: Assertives, Directives, Commissives, Expressives, and Declarations. This comes from: Searle, John R. A taxonomy of illocutionary acts, in K. Gunderson (Ed.), Language, Mind and Knowledge, Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota, 1975, 344-369. Reprinted in: Searle, John R., Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1979. >Elliott Frank ...!{hplabs,ames,sun}!amdahl!esf00 (408) 746-6384 > or ....!{bnrmtv,drivax,hoptoad}!amdahl!esf00 Doug Monk (bro@rice.edu) Disclaimer: These views are mine, not necessarily my organization's.