Sylvia's Use Case Diagram of Semiosis, Interplay

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

This is the resend that Ranjeeth requested. I deleted the header mess 
that came with OASIS's mail program bouncing it back to Sylvia for 
rather impenetrable reasons I'm not of a mind to untangle right now. 
In any event, if you still have trouble deciphering it I suggest you 
bold face and/or underline the parts that don't make sense to you, 
and perhaps Sylvia can explain it. I hesitate to offer to do that on 
my own, since the part that interests me is not the org-chart 
structure, which you have to visualize on your own, but the Notes 
after GROUP_B, which explain in terms most people can understand, 
what the forces at work in the communication context (what I 
generally think of as the human cognitive communication environment) 
are. I will probably, at some point turn this into a diagram a la the 
diagrams Rob had accompanying the images he did for Ranjeeth's use 
case in the CIDOC slide presentation.

Ciao,
Rex

>herewith the outline of Use Cases structure as requested in today's fine
>phone meeting, for use in presentations and proposals. SC
>The diagram of interplay where individual semiotes are spokespeople
>for a group is semiosis as seen in the preliminary SEMIOSIS diagram
>complexified by showing that the individual is interacting with a member
>group while talking back and forth with another individual from [another]
>reference group.
>Note the *live feedback loops* in the resulting INTERPLAY diagram.
>(They are indicated with double-headed arrows.)
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>------------------
>
>USE CASE DIAGRAM of SEMIOSIS:
>SEMIOTE_1
>[in context_1 (<=> meaning), sends intentional and unintentional signals]
>|
>| [signals transmitted] x MARKUP TO BRIDGE CONTEXTS
>v
>SEMIOTE_2
>[in context_2 (<--> Meaning), interprets apprehended (possibly modified)
>signals]
>o changes of state in agents who can generate and interpret meaning of
>signals
>_______________________________________
>
>USE CASE DIAGRAM of INTERPLAY: with Live Feedback Loops
>(pretty much transcribed from huml group phone discussion 21 May 2003)
>GROUP_A
>{GROUP DYNAMICS: activities, ongoing feedback during communication activity
>of member INDIVIDUAL_a}
>^
>|
>| [interaction_a_A_bilateral]
>v
>INDIVIDUAL_a
>^
>|
>| [interaction_a_b_bilateral, communication activity, bilateral, verbal and
>non-verbal]
>|
>v
>INDIVIDUAL_b
>^
>| [interaction_b_B_bilateral]
>|
>v
>GROUP_B
>{GROUP DYNAMICS: activities, ongoing feedback during communication activity
>of member INDIVIDUAL_b}
>Notes:
>o CONSONANCE: continuing membership requirement: cognitive consonance with
>[perceived] group custom [See definition above.] Cognitive dissonance may
>lead to fracture of relationship. Agreement and sharing make for group
>existence and stability.
>o FLUENCY: communication rates must needs be in some correspondence for
>influence, i.e., successful interaction of spokesman and group.
>o EMOTION: group may amplify individual member's emotional state and its
>results in the interactions.
>o AGENDAS: both individuals and groups may have particular agendas, which
>may or may not correspond.
>o ROLE: role, support and status of individuals within groups is dynamic.
>General description:
>Catastrophic dissonance, etc. may lead to communication breakdown.
>Constructive communication can occur similarly thru charismatic evocation of
>emotion and information matching and pass-thru.
>Example of catastrophe:
>offensive ignorance of expected turn-taking/tone-of-voice/term of
>address/recognition of need to consult with cohorts/...
>Example of successful interchanges:
>Case of autonomous understanding:
>prior experience with or listening to communications partner's request for
>turn/tone/title/pacing and pauses
>Catastrophe averted, with enhancement of pass-thru by huml markup:
>explicit indicators salted within discourse: applause expected, bow now,
>raised voice for status, significance of turning of back, title matching,
>reference to legendary personage, etc.
>
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>
>
>_______________________________________________________
>Courtesy of Cogonizor.com WebMail :)
>(2nd send)
>SC


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