INTENT

Intent relates to the intended meaning of a communication. It is the attempt to get someone to share your thoughts by having intellectual arrangements of features and dimensions of design. Design intent tends to govern the relationship between features in part and parts in assemblies. This means that for a design to work as a solution there has to be intent of each component to answer the design problem.

Within a presentation we try to use body language which tends to provide clues to the meaning and intent of communication from others that we get from gesture, facial expression, posture and everything else that is non-verbal. Non-verbal communication amounts to a second source of human communication that is often more reliable or essential to understanding what is really going on than the words themselves. While verbally when we talk to someone it is essential to bare in mind that others share the same sphere of experience would understand the content of a presentation. In the architecture environment there needs to be a high-level framework that can be used to develop unified communications environments that can provide significant productivity and cost benefits. Intelligent presenters should be able to communicate with each other using an extensible, expressive language.

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http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3123.html