Researchers studying adaptive behavior in human movement systems have traditionally employed simplified, laboratory-based movement models in an effort to conserve experimental rigor. Brunswikian psychology raises questions over the representativeness of many of these popular experimental models for studying how movements are coordinated with events, objects, and surfaces of dynamic environments...

There is a close relationship between ecological psychology and behavior-based robotics. One point of intersection between these two fields is the investigation of control laws, specifically those based on optic flow. As a demonstration of this, we have implemented control laws (inspired by work on flies) that produce behaviors relevant to the game of tag, a form of predator-prey interaction. T...

There are striking parallels between ecological psychology and new trends in robotics and computer vision, particularly regarding how agents interact with the environment. We present some ideas from ecological psychology, including control laws using optical flow, affordances and action modes, and describe our implementation of these concepts in a small mobile robot which can avoid obstacles an...

The study attempts to assess the impact of the educational level of the country’s population, the level of science and technology development on the general environmental environment. The aim of this article is to assess the impact of educational level and level of science development on individual elements that reflect the state of the environment. To receive the obtained results is being used...

Aquatic ecological carrying capacity is an effective method for analyzing sustainable development in regional water management. In this paper, an integrated approach is employed for assessing the aquatic ecological carrying capacity of Wujin District in the Tai Lake Basin, China. An indicator system is established considering social and economic development as well as ecological resilience pers...

This chapter offers a selective review of behavioral and ecological perspectives on search behavior. Basic results from foraging theory are presented and their relationship to search is discussed. Techniques for the statistical description of searching motion are outlined, with a focus on the correlated random walk and the so-called Lévy fl ights— a technique that holds considerable promise. Th...

BACKGROUND Not everyone considers breaches of environmental laws as reprehensible behaviors or to the same extent. Research on the causal explanations of illegal anti-ecological behavior given by individuals is useful to analyze the social support of environmental laws and their consolidation as social and/or personal norms. This study aims to analyze the explanations selected by participants a...

undermine line authority; and (5) the fact that aspirants to higher staff offices could gain promotion only through approval of influential line executives. If further esearch should prove that staffline behavior of the character presented here is widespread in industry, and if top management should realize how such behavior affects its cost and production goals-and be concerned to improve the ...