What is conversation, and how can we design for it?

Interactions

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 22-28

  Pangaro, Paul ^a  

^a CyberneticLifestylescom ^*

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY OF INTEREST; INFORMATION SOURCES; INTERACTION DESIGN; RIGOROUS MODEL; TRANSMISSION CHANNELS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 67849134930     PISSN: 10725520     EISSN: 15583449     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1551986.1551991     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. For a general review of Conversation Theory, see Pask, G., Conversation Theory: Applications in Education and Epistemoiogy, Elsevier Publishing Co., Amsterdam and New York, 1976. For a short explication of Pask's conversation structure, see .
2. For Pask's experimental framework for interaction studies, see Pask, G., The Cybernetics of Human Learning and Performance, Hutchinson, London, 1975.
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4. Pask, G., "An Essay on the Kinetics of Language, Behavior and Thought," Proceedings, Siiver Anniversary Internationa! Meeting of Society for General Systems Research, London, August 1979. A summary of the knowledge model, called entailment meshes, is available at and video explanations of entailment meshes are available at
5. Von Foerster said, "The nervous system organizes the world to compute a stable state." Quoted in Pangaro, P., "The Past-Future of Cybernetics: Conversations, Von Foerster, and the BCL," Chapter 8 in Müller, A., and Müller, K. An Unfinished Revolution?, edition echoraum, Vienna 2007, page 9. Preprint download at
6. Pask, G., "Developments in Conversation Theory Part I," International Journal of Man-Machine Studies (now International Journal of Human-Computer Studies) 13, no. 4(1980): 357-411.
7. Pask, G., Scott, B.C. E., and Kallilourdis, D. "A Theory of Conversations and Individuals (Exemplified by the Learning Process on CASTE)," International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 5, no. 4 (1973): 443-566.