Abstract
Power’s computational model of purposeful conversation was based on a strategy of mutuality — i.e., of explicit agreement of each relevant item in turn. It is re-analysed and extended to cover many of the features of ‘constructive interaction’ - how people change their beliefs and understandings as the result of conversational interactions - including divergence between professed beliefs that appear in a transcript of the conversation and the actual private beliefs of the individuals. The model shows how separate rules for private belief-change and for public agreement can show this phenomenon even within a uniform conversational strategy of attempting to secure shared ideas. Conversation in general exhibits still further relaxation of mutuality.
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Draper, S.W. (1995). Computational Modelling of Constructive Interaction: Relaxing the Mutuality Hypothesis. In: O’Malley, C. (eds) Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. NATO ASI Series, vol 128. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85098-1_12
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