Our position related to 'Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data in Single and Multiple Robot System... more Our position related to 'Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data in Single and Multiple Robot Systems' is threefold. First, that conscious awareness of experience in humans is bootstrapped from sensory/motor interactions within the first 12 months following conception. Second, that human developmental physiology indicates the appropriate behavioral metalevel to focus work on connecting an artificial mind to its sensory/motor embodiment. Third, that this perspective leads to specific architectural and representational choices in the design of systems capable of acquiring human-like common sense.
The question for many designers of intelligent systems is no longer whether to incorporate emotio... more The question for many designers of intelligent systems is no longer whether to incorporate emotion and motivation, but how to do so. This question has strong consequences for the autonomy and flexibility of a system and its ability to respond to novel, unpredictable or changing environments - in other words, the degree of intelligence it will display. Autonomous agents that
CHI '03 extended abstracts on Human factors in computer systems - CHI '03, 2003
ABSTRACT This paper describes preliminary results of research on the perception and usability of ... more ABSTRACT This paper describes preliminary results of research on the perception and usability of interfaces projected onto real-world objects. Using a projector setup that enables us to compare users' color preferences, we show that the objects onto which colors are projected ...
Autonomic Computing Systems (ACS) are envisioned to function with the robustness of self -regulat... more Autonomic Computing Systems (ACS) are envisioned to function with the robustness of self -regulating biological systems. They are self organizing, self configuring, self optimizing, self healing, self protecting, aware of both themselves and their environment, and capable of adapting to circumstances unknown to their designers while they continue to deliver their specified behavior. These capabilities fundamentally require an ACS to
Although scoring systems have been developed to introduce reliability into evaluadon of subject r... more Although scoring systems have been developed to introduce reliability into evaluadon of subject responses to TAT pictures, these are not widely used in ... The subjective validity of the TAT among clinicians appears to be that, taken with other information about a subject, it does ...
Cross-cultural studies of color naming show that basic terms are universally the most frequently ... more Cross-cultural studies of color naming show that basic terms are universally the most frequently used to name colors. However, such basic color terms are always used in the context of larger linguistic systems when specific properties of color experience are described. To investigate naturalistic naming behaviors, we examined the use of modifiers in English and Vietnamese color naming using an unconstrained naming task (Jameson & Alvarado, in press). Monolingual and bilingual subjects named a representative set of 110 color stimuli sampled from a commonly used color-order stimulus space. Results revealed greater reliance upon polylexemic naming among monolingual Vietnamese speakers and greater use of monolexemic basic hue terms and secondary terms (object glosses) among monolingual English speakers. Systematic differences across these language groups imply that widely used monolexemic naming methods may differentially impact color-naming findings in cross-cultural investigations of ...
Much research on color representation and categorization has assumed that relations among color t... more Much research on color representation and categorization has assumed that relations among color terms can be proxies for relations among color percepts. We test this assumption by comparing the mapping of color words with color appearances among different observer groups performing cognitive tasks: (1) an invariance of naming task; and (2) triad similarity judgments of color term and color appearance stimuli within and across color categories. Observer subgroups were defined by perceptual phenotype and photopigment opsin genotype analyses. Results suggest that individuals rely on at least two different representational models of color experience: one lexical, conforming to the culture's normative linguistic representation, and another individual perceptual representation organizing each observer's color sensation experiences. Additional observer subgroup analyses suggest that perceptual phenotype variation within a language group may play a greater role in the shared color n...
Our position related to 'Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data in Single and Multiple Robot System... more Our position related to 'Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data in Single and Multiple Robot Systems' is threefold. First, that conscious awareness of experience in humans is bootstrapped from sensory/motor interactions within the first 12 months following conception. Second, that human developmental physiology indicates the appropriate behavioral metalevel to focus work on connecting an artificial mind to its sensory/motor embodiment. Third, that this perspective leads to specific architectural and representational choices in the design of systems capable of acquiring human-like common sense.
The question for many designers of intelligent systems is no longer whether to incorporate emotio... more The question for many designers of intelligent systems is no longer whether to incorporate emotion and motivation, but how to do so. This question has strong consequences for the autonomy and flexibility of a system and its ability to respond to novel, unpredictable or changing environments - in other words, the degree of intelligence it will display. Autonomous agents that
CHI '03 extended abstracts on Human factors in computer systems - CHI '03, 2003
ABSTRACT This paper describes preliminary results of research on the perception and usability of ... more ABSTRACT This paper describes preliminary results of research on the perception and usability of interfaces projected onto real-world objects. Using a projector setup that enables us to compare users' color preferences, we show that the objects onto which colors are projected ...
Autonomic Computing Systems (ACS) are envisioned to function with the robustness of self -regulat... more Autonomic Computing Systems (ACS) are envisioned to function with the robustness of self -regulating biological systems. They are self organizing, self configuring, self optimizing, self healing, self protecting, aware of both themselves and their environment, and capable of adapting to circumstances unknown to their designers while they continue to deliver their specified behavior. These capabilities fundamentally require an ACS to
Although scoring systems have been developed to introduce reliability into evaluadon of subject r... more Although scoring systems have been developed to introduce reliability into evaluadon of subject responses to TAT pictures, these are not widely used in ... The subjective validity of the TAT among clinicians appears to be that, taken with other information about a subject, it does ...
Cross-cultural studies of color naming show that basic terms are universally the most frequently ... more Cross-cultural studies of color naming show that basic terms are universally the most frequently used to name colors. However, such basic color terms are always used in the context of larger linguistic systems when specific properties of color experience are described. To investigate naturalistic naming behaviors, we examined the use of modifiers in English and Vietnamese color naming using an unconstrained naming task (Jameson & Alvarado, in press). Monolingual and bilingual subjects named a representative set of 110 color stimuli sampled from a commonly used color-order stimulus space. Results revealed greater reliance upon polylexemic naming among monolingual Vietnamese speakers and greater use of monolexemic basic hue terms and secondary terms (object glosses) among monolingual English speakers. Systematic differences across these language groups imply that widely used monolexemic naming methods may differentially impact color-naming findings in cross-cultural investigations of ...
Much research on color representation and categorization has assumed that relations among color t... more Much research on color representation and categorization has assumed that relations among color terms can be proxies for relations among color percepts. We test this assumption by comparing the mapping of color words with color appearances among different observer groups performing cognitive tasks: (1) an invariance of naming task; and (2) triad similarity judgments of color term and color appearance stimuli within and across color categories. Observer subgroups were defined by perceptual phenotype and photopigment opsin genotype analyses. Results suggest that individuals rely on at least two different representational models of color experience: one lexical, conforming to the culture's normative linguistic representation, and another individual perceptual representation organizing each observer's color sensation experiences. Additional observer subgroup analyses suggest that perceptual phenotype variation within a language group may play a greater role in the shared color n...
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