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A Quantum Formalization for Communication Coordination Problems

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Quantum Interaction (QI 2014)

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Humans have developed several strategies to ensure that communication is successful. For example, humans take another person’s perspective into account when they design the content of a message. Furthermore, communicated messages exhibit frequent level of detail changes due to the interactive nature of conversations. In this paper, we look at an instance of spatial knowledge transfer that occurs if one person requests route instructions from a knowledgeable source. More specifically, using a quantum cognition approach, we model the process of perspective taking in such a scenario. Our work contributes to the ongoing research effort to make information systems capable of mimicking human-style communication.

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  1. Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna University of Technology, Gusshausstrasse 27-29, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Jürgen Hahn & Paul Weiser

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  1. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  2. Universitätsspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Claudia Bergomi

  3. University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Thomas Filk

  4. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Kirsty Kitto

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Hahn, J., Weiser, P. (2015). A Quantum Formalization for Communication Coordination Problems . In: Atmanspacher, H., Bergomi, C., Filk, T., Kitto, K. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8951. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15931-7_14

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