Embodying Embodied Design Research Techniques

Embodying Movies: Embodied Simulation and Film Studies

Using Embodied Design Improvisation as a Design Research Tool

Embodied design improvisation is a generative and evaluative technique to elicit tacit knowledge about embodied experience. It incorporates storyboarding, Wizard of Oz prototyping, domain expert improvisation, video prototyping and crowdsourced experimentation. We have been developing this technique to design physical interactions with expressive, robotic everyday devices, eliciting the tacit r...

Embodied Evolution: Embodying an Evolutionary Algorithm in a Population of Robots

We introduce Embodied Evolution (EE) as a methodology for the automatic design of robotic controllers. EE is an evolutionary robotics (ER) technique that avoids the pitfalls of the simulate-and-transfer method, allows the speed-up of evaluation time by utilizing parallelism, and is particularly suited to future work on multi-agent behaviors. In EE, an evolutionary algorithm is distributed among...

Embodiment and Embodied Design

Picture this. A preverbal infant straddles the center of a seesaw. She gently tilts her weight back and forth from one side to the other, sensing as each side tips downward and then back up again. This child cannot articulate her observations in simple words, let alone in scientific jargon. Can she learn anything from this experience? If so, what is she learning, and what role might such learni...

Embodying and Situating Cognitive Vision What Cognitive Vision can learn from Embodied and Situated Cognition

Cognitive Vision is a new sub-area of computer vision that tries to enhance vision with cognitive methods such as learning and reasoning. We want to go a step further and review ideas from embodied AI and situated cognition as well as critiques of traditional computer vision to derive a set of guidelines to build new kinds of cognitive vision systems that could overcome the limitations of conte...