Abstract
As human beings, more than two thirds of our conversation is spent in socialising, gossip and story telling (Dunbar, 1996, 1997). Transactional or functional conversation quickly moves on to social interaction, and we constantly recount anecdotes to reinforce a practical point we are making or to reinforce our validity to have an opinion on a subject.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Arnott JL (1990) The Communication Prosthesis: A Problem of Human-Computer Integration. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on the Advancement of Rehahilitation Technology. Maastricht, Netherlands, pp 22–26
Arnott JL, Alm N, Waller A (1999) Cognitive Prosthesis: Communication, Rehabilitation and Beyond. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics. Tokyo, Japan, vol. VI, pp 346–351
Beukelman D, Mirenda P (1998) Augmentative and alternative communication: Management of severe communication disorders in children and adults. 2nd Edition. Paul H Brookes Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD
Brophy-Arnott MB, Newell AF, Arnott JL, Condie D (1992) A survey of me communication impaired population of Tayside. European Journal of Disorders of Communication 27(2): 159–173
Csikszentmihalyi M, Rochberg-Halton E (1981) The meaning of things: domestic symbols and the self. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Dunbar RIM (1996) Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language. Mackays of Chatham, Chatham, UK
Dunbar RIM, Marriott A, Duncan NDC (1997) Human Conversational Behaviour. Human Nature 8(3): 231–246
Emler N (1994) Gossip, Reputation, and Social Adaptation. In: Goodman RF, Ben-Ze’ev A (eds.) Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas, pp 117–138
Friston KJ, Price CJ (2001) Generative models, brain function ana neuruimagin. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 42(3): 167–177
Mäkelä A, Giller V, Tscheligi M, Sefelin R (2000) Joking, storytelling, pastsnanng, expressing affection: a field trial of how children and their social network communicate with digital images in leisure time. In: Proceedings of the CHI 2000 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, The Hague, Netherlands, pp 548–555
Maybury MT, Wahlster W (1998) Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces. Morgan Kaufman, San Fransisco, CA
Millikin CC (1997) Symbol systems and vocabulary selection strategies. In: Glennen SL, DeCoste DC (eds.) Handbook of Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Singular Publishing Group, San Diego, CA, pp 97–148
Pickering JA, Arnott JL, Wolff JG, Swiffin AL (1984) Prediction and adaption in a computer aid for the disabled. In: Proceedings of INTERACT ’84, First IFIP Conference on human computer interaction, London, UK, pp 815–819
Read SJ, Miller LC (1995) Stories are Fundamental to Meaning and Memory: For Social Creatures Could It Be Otherwise. In: Wyer RS (ed.) Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pp 139–152
Sandhu J (ed.) (1997) A demographic analysis of the number of disabled and elderly people in Europe and related statistics. Deliverable to the CEC from Telematics Applications Programme Project DE3006 MORE, Workpackage WP 1, Deliverable 1.2
Schank RC (1990) Tell me a story: a new look at real and artificial memory. Scribner’s, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York
Schank RC, Abelson RP (1995) Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story. In: Wyer RS (ed.) Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pp 1–85
Scott LM (1995) Representation and Narrative: A Commentry on Schank and Abelson’s “Knowledge and Memory.” In: Wyer RS (ed.) Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pp 165–176
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2002 Springer-Verlag London
About this paper
Cite this paper
Hine, N., Arnott, J.L., Beattie, W., Sergeant, P. (2002). User Involvement in the Design of a New Multimedia Communication Service. In: Keates, S., Langdon, P., Clarkson, P.J., Robinson, P. (eds) Universal Access and Assistive Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3719-1_16
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3719-1_16
Publisher Name: Springer, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-4471-3721-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-4471-3719-1
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive