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Cooperative activity requires both communication and execution of practical actions. Cooperative Works cannot be supported by obliging users to explicitly describe what they are doing and without understanding the relationships between what they discuss about and what they are doing. Furthermore, users cannot be oblige to send explicit messages to understand each other. We claim that in CSCW the system’s capability of understanding actions, in particular of recognising plans and intentions, will play a fundamental role. We focus on the capability of recognising the correspondence between the plans agreed upon by the agents (Virtual Plans) and the ones they perform. This problem is particularly significant for the Action Workflow Approach.
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Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R. (1995). “To Say and to Do” Virtual Actions in the Structure and Recognition of Discourse Plans With Regard to Practical Plans. In: Nordby, K., Helmersen, P., Gilmore, D.J., Arnesen, S.A. (eds) Human—Computer Interaction. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2896-4_17
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