On Clark and Schaefer’s Contribution Model and its applicability to Human-Computer Collaboration
David R. Traum · 2007
I discuss the suitability of Clark and Schaefer’s Contribution model of Grounding, as a design model for computer collaboration. This model is very appealing and, at a coarse level very influential and important for viewing dialogue as a collaborative process. While the main ideas are directly applicable and important considerations both for designers of collaborative systems and for those systems, themselves to attend to, the specific details are not particularly well suited to direct implementation.