title: Diagnostic consultations: a speech-act theoretical reconstruction for the design of consultation systems.
abstract: In this paper the theory of speech acts is applied for a structural reconstruction of medical diagnostic consultations. The reconstruction provides the conceptual model for a research prototype of a consultation tool which is expected to play a mediating role between the participants in the professional diagnostic discourse. Preliminary results of the design will be outlined.
authors.affiliation: Dept. General Internal Medicine, Bielefeld, Germany.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Müller-Kolck
mesh_terms: D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005103:Expert Systems; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013060:Speech