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Learning outcomes

By the end of the course students will be expected to be able to:
  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the communication phenomena presented from contrasting disciplinary perspectives covered in this course by describing them.
  2. Describe examples that illustrate ambiguity and other difficulties in human communication.
  3. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of computational models of communication, as illustrated by the examples covered in the course.
  4. Describe the relationship between human communication and formal models of communication used in current technology.
  5. Demonstrate an understanding of methodologies used in research in human communication by designing and carrying out a simple empirical study.
  6. Demonstrate and understanding of the relation between models and experimental data by describing how such data may be used in modelling example communication phenomena.
  7. Demonstrate the use of simple techniques for analysing communication by applying them to example interactions.



Helen Pain
8/Jan/11


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