A Review on the Role of Embodiment in Improving Human-Vehicle Interaction: A Proposal for Further Development of Embodied Intelligence

Abstract

This article tries to see how embodiment discourse can improve the design of an intelligent system, in this case Human-Vehicle Interaction. This proposal is based on the studies of Maurice Merleau Ponty and Paul Dourish applied in Intelligence System Design. Based on the mentioned above, the concept of Designerly Embodied Intelligence is introduced and applied for such a discourse. While the concept of Embodied Interaction sounds new and applied, the role of design thinking in improving such concept still needs to be discussed and elaborated. Therefore, vehicle design and especially product planning phase would be needed to be elaborated based on this discussion. It would be reviewed how intelligent systems could be improved if the concept of embodiment would be used for them, moreover it would be reviewed that how design thinking and designer-ly ways of knowing and interacting would enrich both embodiment and human-vehicle Interaction. It is claimed that design discourse, not only in vehicle planning, but also in improving an intelligent and appropriate system design, can be very helpful. Therefore, the role of design thinking in intelligent vehicle design is based on the concept of Appropriate-ness, or in other words, an intelligent design which is directed toward needs of the target user, no more and no less. Seeking the new potentials of intelligent systems in vehicle design and helping Open Innovation could be also another outcome of such proposal. Based on such argumentation, some proposals would be sketched in order to visualize possible solutions for designer-ly embodied intelligence in human-vehicle interaction.