Browsing Theses by Author "Pimenta, Geovania de Lima"
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Information and Knowledge: A Duality in the Communication Process
Pimenta, Geovania de Lima (University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)Communication is very common in human life. In fact, we take communication for granted and do not think about the challenges involved except when miscommunication happens. When two people communicate, information is ... -
The structuring of ambiguous stimuli in human communication
Pimenta, Geovania (University of Waterloo, 2016-05-18)Abstract Information theory (Shannon, 1948) and relative similarity (Rosch and Mervis, 1975) are used to investigate the problem of how people communicate about ambiguous, unstructured stimuli. Specifically, the following ...