Grounding on Communication – Setor

Grounding on Communication Summary: A high-level overview of this paper defines a new term for communication in which the authors call grounding. There are two main factors in determining a common ground: purpose and medium. The authors define a common ground as mandatory for any form of communication. Their goal is to establish a criteria…

Grounding in Communication: Collaborative work in the modern world

“Grounding in communication” discusses in detail all the elements necessary for communication to achieve common ground. Clarke and Brennan posit that grounding is basic to communication, especially when a conversation needs to move forward. In grounding, two factors have an important effect on a conversation, it’s purpose and the medium. To establish what participants in…

Reflection #1 – [09/26] – Viral Pasad

Clark, Herbert H., and Susan E. Brennan. “Grounding in communication.” Perspectives on socially shared cognition 13.1991 (1991): 127-149. This is a very groundbreaking paper where Clark and Brennan establish Grounding as a mandatory requirement for any kind of collaborative activity to happen (eg: pair programming or playing the piano) However, jokes apart, it is an old paper,…

Shuyi Sun- Reflecting on “Grounding in Communication”

In brief, this paper examines grounding, which is constructing a mutual understanding, in communication. Establishing, updating, and engaging in a common contextual ground in communication has many steps and nuances. In this paper, Clark analyzed in extreme details the properties of a conversation. Furthermore, techniques are introduced for more effective communication. To converse, one must…

Grounding on Communication: Where do modern communication technologies stand? (Blog 2)

Clark, Herbert H., and Susan E. Brennan. “Grounding in communication.” Perspectives on socially shared cognition 13.1991 (1991): 127-149. Summary: This paper discusses the grounding of communication where communication is some process and medium that is understood to be a collaborative process that has many ways of establishing understanding through developing utterance and costs associated to…

Shuyi Sun – AR Brainstorm

My name is Shuyi Sun. I am a first year PhD student in CS. I graduated with a BS in CS from Georgia Tech, with my concentrations being People and Media. My interests and Animal Computer Interactions, Education Technology, and Aesthetic Computing. I am intrigued by the Collaborative Brainstorming in AR project. One of my…

Crowd-sourced intelligence & digital authoritarianism: Molly’s intro

I come from faraway Maryland to pursue my Masters in CS.  My undergrad is in math from UMBC (University of Maryland – Baltimore County).  I worked at the MITRE Corporation for three years after college, working test and evaluation for national security-related research projects, primarily related to crowd-sourced anticipatory intelligence: using “wisdom of the crowds”…

Citizen Science, Twitch Outdoors, Speedrunning Communities, and Disease on the Trail based Ideas for the Project (updated)

Hello, and welcome to my introduction post. My name is Tim Stelter, and I am a 4th year PhD student in Computer Science advised by Dr. Scott McCrickard. My research is with the Tech on the Trail initiative that came to fruition in Spring 2017 with the first workshop hosted by the Center for Human-Computer…