IMEanT: methods for dealing with meanings and intentions on interactive collaborative systems

• Grant number: 14/14890-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: March 01, 2015
• End date: June 11, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computing Methodologies and Techniques
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas
• Grantee: Julio Cesar dos Reis
• Host Institution: Instituto de Computação (IC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Web mediated communication and collaboration in many cases result in situations of misunderstanding and disagreement, which are due to design problems of mechanisms for sharing meanings and intentions. These issues create barriers for users easily reaching their goals and properly manage, retrieve and interpret available content. We aim at studying how people can express and recognize meanings and intentions, while interacting with web systems, by considering an underlying computer-interpretable representation model as support. Firstly, we propose to define a formal model, which accounts for the combined computational representation of meanings and intentions. Secondly, we propose to investigate methods to design appropriate interactive mechanisms for a smooth capture of people's declared intentions. For this purpose, the project proposes experiments with groups of users to understand how they can comfortably express intentions on web-mediated systems. We aim to combine this empirical ground with a methodological and theoretical referential based on the Semiotics and Speech Acts theory to conceptualize our original approach and methods. We will carry out experimental validations to empirically assess the implemented prototypes in real application scenarios. Through this, we expect to achieve novel design techniques, interaction mechanisms and computational artifacts suited to enable users to express intentions during different moments of the interaction, without forcing people to comply with complex technology-oriented solutions. Our expected results might improve the effectiveness of collaborative web systems by considering semantic and pragmatic aspects. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BEN ABACHA, ASMA; DOS REIS, JULIO CESAR; MRABET, YASSINE; PRUSKI, CEDRIC; DA SILVEIRA, MARCOS. Towards natural language question generation for the validation of ontologies and mappings. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL SEMANTICS, v. 7, AUG 8 2016. (14/14890-0)

DOS REIS, JULIO CESAR; JENSEN, CRISTIANE JOSELY; BONACIN, RODRIGO; HORNUNG, HEIKO; CALANI BARANAUSKAS, MARIA CECILIA; HAMMOUDI, S; MACIASZEK, LA; MISSIKOFF, MM; CAMP, O; CORDEIRO, J. Participatory Icons Specification for Expressing Intentions in Computer-Mediated Communications. ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ICEIS 2016, v. 291, p. 22-pg., 2017-01-01. (14/14890-0)

PANTOJA, FAGNER LEAL; CAVOTO, PATRICIA; DOS REIS, JULIO CESAR; SANTANCHE, ANDRE; IEEE. Generating Knowledge Networks from Phenotypic Descriptions. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 IEEE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON E-SCIENCE (E-SCIENCE), v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2016-01-01. (14/14890-0, 13/08293-7)

DOS REIS, JULIO CESAR; BONACIN, RODRIGO; JENSEN, CRISTIANE JOSELY; HORNUNG, HEIKO HORST; CALANI BARANAUSKAS, MARIA CECILIA. Design of Interactive Mechanisms to Support the Communication of Users' Intentions. INTERACTING WITH COMPUTERS, v. 30, n. 4, p. 315-335, JUL 2018. (14/14890-0)

DOS REIS, JULIO CESAR; BONACIN, RODRIGO; HORNUNG, HEIKO HORST; BARANAUSKAS, M. CECILIA C.. Intenticons: Participatory selection of emoticons for communication o intentions. COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR, v. 85, p. 146-162, AUG 2018. (14/14890-0)

DOS REIS, JULIO CESAR; PRUSKI, CEDRIC; DA SILVEIRA, MARCOS; REYNAUD-DELAITRE, CHANTAL. DyKOSMap: A framework for mapping adaptation between biomedical knowledge organization systems. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS, v. 55, p. 153-173, JUN 2015. (14/14890-0)

DOS REIS, JULIO CESAR; BONACIN, RODRIGO; CALANI BARANAUSKAS, MARIA CECILIA; REDDY, S; CELLARY, W; FUGINI, M. Recognizing Intentions in Free Text Messages: Studies with Portuguese Language. 2017 IEEE 26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES - INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COLLABORATIVE ENTERPRISES (WETICE), v. N/A, p. 6-pg., 2017-01-01. (14/14890-0)

GONCALVES, FABRICIO MATHEUS; DUARTE, EMANUEL FELIPE; DOS REIS, JULIO CESAR; BARANAUSKAS, M. CECILIA C.; MEISELWITZ, G. An Analysis of Online Discussion Platforms for Academic Deliberation Support. SOCIAL COMPUTING AND SOCIAL MEDIA: APPLICATIONS AND ANALYTICS, SCSM 2017, PT II, v. 10283, p. 19-pg., 2017-01-01. (14/14890-0)

DE ARAUJO, RICARDO JOSE; DOS REIS, JULIO CESAR; BONACIN, RODRIGO; ANTONA, M; STEPHANIDIS, C. Colors Similarity Computation for User Interface Adaptation. UNIVERSAL ACCESS IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES AND METHODS, PT I, v. 10277, p. 13-pg., 2017-01-01. (14/14890-0)

DOS REIS, JULIO CESAR; JENSEN, CRISTIANE; BONACIN, RODRIGO; HORNUNG, HEIKO; BARANAUSKAS, M. CECILIA C.; HAMMOUDI, S; MACIASZEK, L; MISSIKOFF, MM; CAMP, O; CORDEIRO, J. Expressive Icons for the Communication of Intentions. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, VOL 1 (ICEIS), v. N/A, p. 12-pg., 2016-01-01. (14/14890-0)