LAP 2005
LAP — the Language-Action Perspective on Communication Modeling— is a theoretical orientation toward solving these design challenges that has been taken up by an international, multi-disciplinary community of researchers and practitioners. A conference was held June 19 to 20, 2005, in Kiruna, Lapland, Sweden. This notice was originally posted in 2005.
LAP emphasizes the importance of interaction and communication in designing useable, useful, and legitimate information systems. LAP recognizes that language is not only used for exchanging information, as in reports or statements, but that language is used to perform actions, as in promises, orders, requests, and declarations. Such actions are the foundation of communities and organisations and must be understood to create effective systems. This insight has profound implications for the theory and practice of designing systems to support organisational and community processes.
So far, 9 successful gatherings of scholars and practitioners interested in the Language-Action Perspective (LAP) have been held in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Canada and USA. For more information, visit http://www.vits.org/LAP2005