Taxonomy/supplement/Communication

Communicational Aspects Relevant to System Development

• Human-human communication
  • Information = changes in knowledge states in a human mind/brain
  • Language: highly diverse and mixed syntaxes + intuitive socio-cognitive semantics + pragmatics
  • Typically: language as a communication instrument
• Machine-machine communication
  • Information = changes in knowledge states in a mechanical repository/memory or even just the state of a mechanism
  • Language: formal syntax, formal semantics (possibly, operational semantics)
  • Typically: language as a calculus
• Human-machine/machine-human communication
  • socio-cognitive concepts need somehow to be mapped on formal and possibly operational semantics
  • interface design comes in as well: determines syntax and interaction patterns