This paper discusses the identity of embodied AI, i.e. it asks the question exactly what it is that makes AI research embodied. From an engineering perspective, it is fairly clear that embodied AI is about robotic, i.e. physically embodied systems. From the scientific perspective of AI as building models of natural cognition or intelligence, however, things are less clear. On the one hand embod...

Learning scientists are only beginning to appreciate the potential of synergy between two concurrent developments—theory of embodied cognition and technology of embodied interaction. We characterize and evaluate this prospective synergy from a sociocultural perspective. First we analyze learning in explicitly embodied cultural practices (e.g., surfing), then analogize to the implicitly embodied...

This paper presents a craft in experiential teaching and an experiment embodied learning for peacebuilders change-makers. The theories, practices experiments are part of the postgraduate course Peace Mind. intention is to invite reader see awareness-based as tool that enables possibility evolve our humanness. Interdisciplinary abstract methodologies from Indigenous phenomenological philosophies...