Papers Objectives Information technology has seen radical changes in the last two decades with systems to support cooperation and communication playing an ever-increasing role. Communication is the key to smooth cooperation.
Individuals working in groups coordinate their actions through communication.
Communication modelling has been studied for more than two decades. LAP was introduced by Winograd, Flores, and Ludlow who stated that human beings are fundamentally linguistic beings who act through language. It was argued that language is not only used for exchanging information as in reports, statements etc. Searle's Theory of Speech Acts and Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action. The conventional perspective on information systems stresses the contents of messages rather than the way they are exchanged.