Conceptual Embodiment Research Articles

Novel Computer-Aided Design-Based Collaboration Framework for the Conceptual–Embodiment Design Phase

Novel Computer-Aided Design-Based Collaboration Framework for the Conceptual–Embodiment Design Phase

Особенности творческого метода Э. Дега в интерпретации темы «Балет Парижской оперы»

The article considers methodological approaches to the interpretation of the dance subject on the example of the famous French artist E. Degas (1834-1917) in the context of understanding the school of the Paris Opera Ballet, which is the center of French cultural life and brings new forms of dialogue in the morphological sphere of interaction of related arts. The unflagging interest of researchers to the problems of the works of E. Degas throughout the history of his study, both at the level of a single country, and in the context of world artistic culture determines the undoubted relevance of our narrow topic. The works of Edouard Degas are devoted to the study of the artworks of Russian, but mainly the foreign art critics, however, they do not consider in an in-depth section of ballet themes, paying it not enough attention, despite the fact that it is the first significant experience and even a kind of experiment in the world of fine arts. The aim of the article is to trace the creative activity and special interest of E. Degas in the subject of dance. To reveal and analyze the artist's creative method on exemplary works. To prove the importance of his graphic and pictorial works in the popularization of ballet as art. To work out, clarify and supplement the methodological aspects of approaches to the interpretation of the ballet theme and trends of its development in the creative process by analyzing the specific works of E. Degas which are in museum and private collections. The complex analysis from the viewpoint of art history and theater studies enables us to reveal the genre fusion reflected in the stylistics of the romantic ballet epoch, refracted in the everyday life of dancers at rehearsals and in dance classes, as portrayed by the artist. The author refers to various works of E. Degas, which convey the peculiarities of his impressionistic creative method, accurately capturing the specifics of the French school of classical ballet. The author analyzes his method, which in many respects differs from other impressionist masters, who depicted landscape views and life of Paris and its suburbs in open spaces. It is a fragmentary and at the same time large, unrehearsed, casually seen world of dance in its most varied manifestations, enclosed within the walls of the theater. The paper shows that the searching creative thinking peculiar to Edgar Degas introduces new ways of observing and depicting in the sketches and finished works different and simultaneously canonical poses and movements of the dancers in solitary figures and ensemble groups conditioned by the specificity of classical choreography. In spite of one common theme, the artist resolves different creative compositional and coloristic tasks in depicting the backstage theatrical life. On the basis of the interdisciplinary nature of the subject the author engages with a wide range of issues, covering not only methodological, but also substantive aspects (names of the depicted, composition and dance technique, performing manner, rehearsal atmosphere, ballet costumes, interior architecture of the theater, etc.). Based on a study of a number of works, the author formulates the main visual characteristics of the ballet artistic images and their unique conceptual embodiment. The possible ways of using such artistic experience in the practice of ballet theater are outlined.

동작 표상에 있어서의 동작의 강도의 역할: 기능적 자기공명영상 연구

Embodied Cognition models posit that brain areas associated with action and perception are crucial for grounding word and sentence meanings. However, it remains unclear which details of motor-sensory experience are included in these simulations. We explored whether sensory-motor regions are differently engaged depending on action strength expressed by a verb in a sentence. We investigated the neural career of strong and weak action sentences using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The results revealed that sentences with relatively strong action as compared with those with relatively weak action activated more of the left inferior parietal lobule, a region of the execution of complex motor movements. This finding suggests that the strength of action modulates the nature of conceptual embodiment.

Conceptual and Biofunctional Embodiment: A Long Story on the Transience of the Enduring Mind.

We examine how embodiment in biological activity is different from conceptual embodiment as reflected in classic, modern, and postmodern perspectives on tacit knowledge. The central theme of the essay is how understanding is embodied conceptually and biofunctionally. We focus (a) on how biofunctional understanding (BU) is different from conceptual understanding (CU) and (b) on how the overall differences between these two types of embodied understanding are complementary. We show here from a conceptual perspective that embodiment theories have diverged on the meaning of embodiment; but convergence may be more likely across future perspectives if we first redefine the construct of tacit knowledge as tacit understanding and then define (explicit) CU as being directly grounded in tacit understanding, for the purpose of comparison with BU defined as being grounded in biological activity. We illustrate the complementary differences between conceptual and biofunctional embodiment of understanding first in the absence of language and then using a particular statement format and the implicit analogy of biofunctional embodiment in other bodily systems. We conclude with a suggestion about the directly uncovered but highly related embodiment of language in a section on future research.

A Study on Computer Representation of Design Information for Comprehensive Support of Conceptual Design and Embodiment Design

A Study on Computer Representation of Design Information for Comprehensive Support of Conceptual Design and Embodiment Design

Conceptual embodiment in visual semiotics

AbstractIn this paper, the basic concepts of Peircean semiotics are derived from visual experience by the process of conceptual embodiment. We begin with embodiment of the universal Categories of Being that are accessible to thought or the universal Categories of Thought, which Charles S. Peirce defined and termed Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. On this basis, we demonstrate conceptual embodiments of the Peircean typologies of dyadic relations, triadic relations and representations. The phenomenology of visual perception is modeled as a triadic typology of embodied mental processes which we term detection, localization and identification. Based upon the pioneering work of Lakoff and Johnson, we examine the role of visual embodiment in concept formation as inferred from linguistic expressions. We conclude that certain fundamental physical and relational concepts may be regarded as the embodied interpretants of visual signs.

Sharing of Ideas in a Collaborative CAD for Conceptual Embodiment Design Stage

CAD systems being used now are designed mainly to be used by single users for routine designs and conducting engineering analysis on those designs. In this paper we propose a CAD system that is used to facilitate the conceptual-embodiment design stage in a collaborative manner. This system will enable designers to efficiently exchange their ideas during the early design stages through updating other designers with the progress of other designers. This means that designers are free to choose their own design paths and then converge the design into a chosen design that they deemed best for the problem at hand. This approach is designed such that the creativity of each designers can be showcased while simultaneously limiting the resources that are used in designing each potential solutions. Lastly, we will also show the further planned development for the proposed system.

Correlation of Migration Processes and the Social Concept of “Home”

The article examines the socio-psychological causes of migration, rooted not only in economic and political sphere, but also in the parent-child relationship of future migrants. There are parallels between the change of country residence and relationship with parents. Leaving “Home”, the person is not simply looking for a more comfortable physical space, he also seeking a new “Home”, which manifests itself as a particular social situation where a person feels the psychological stability and reliability. In that way, “Home” is a conceptual embodiment of hopes, needs and values of an individual, this is a “resource place” existential fullness of maǹ s being. Migration can be due two conditions: a psychological escape from something or an intentional jump to something. In both cases we deal with the process of subjective interpretation of past events or projecting ourselves into the future. In methodology we use existential and psychodynamic approach, the analysis of migration processes is carried out at the interdisciplinary intersection of philosophy and psychology. There is a question about transformation of psychological identity, when a migrant changes the country. This process happens on behavioral, value, emotional and cognitive levels. A significant part of the “I-image” whichthe migrant got in his childhood at “Home” and it rooted in the language. According to this, it is inefficient and requires processing under a new social reality. Thus, the migrant has to become a “self-made man”.

Connecting the conceptual dots in embodied cognition: A commentary on "How body balance influences political party evaluations: a Wii balance board study".

Embodied cognition is the hypothesis that things other than the brain contribute meaningfully to the structure of our cognition. A critical (and often ignored) corollary of this is that any example of embodied cognition in action needs an account of exactly how these distributed elements are connected to one another so that they might affect each other. A given embodied cognition effect therefore needs to come with a plausible path along which information can flow (Wilson and Golonka, 2013). Identifying this path is difficult, and it's not always possible to do so immediately; this is not a problem, and simply indicates a place for future research. However, when the only viable pathway is tested and fails, there is a problem and it suggests that there is something fundamentally wrong with the analysis of the task. Dijkstra et al. (2012) asked people to attribute neutral political statements to Dutch political parties spanning the left/right political spectrum. Participants' posture was surreptitiously altered to be slightly (2%) left or right of center. The hypothesis was that leaning to the left/right would prime the conceptual metaphor “left wing/right wing.” This would then make the primed metaphor more likely to be used to interpret the otherwise neutral political statements, making people more likely to attribute the statement to a party they know to be left/right wing. This hypothesis would be supported if leaning left/right made people more likely to select a party they believed was left wing/right wing. When leaning left, people were indeed more likely to attribute the statements to left-wing political parties (p < 0.01), but when leaning right there was only a trend to attribute the statements to right wing parties (p = 0.07). The authors concluded that the results support the hypothesis. There is a problem, however. The effect was only apparent when the political party's affiliations were coded according to their actual affiliation (Dijkstra et al., Figure 2). The effect vanishes entirely when the party affiliations were coded according to participants' knowledge of that affiliation. This is because the participants were only able to correctly identify the affiliation of fewer than half of the 10 parties, and, in general, scored very low on measures of interest and knowledge of politics. The participants were missing a critical part of the puzzle (knowing which parties were left or right wing)—so how were they able to connect the conceptual dots to generate the observed effect? The authors suggest that the problem was that the 2D grid task which measured knowledge (left wing/right wing by progressive/conservative) was too hard (see also Dijkstra et al., 2014). As evidence they show a small but significant improvement in affiliation identification in a second group of participants using a 1D left/right classification (5.97/10, vs. 4.57/10 for the first group). However, the first group never completed the easier classification task and the second group never matched statements to parties. There is also the fact that the first group showed very low interest and knowledge in politics in general, suggesting they may not have benefited from the different task. At the very least, the onus is on the authors to replicate their effect with the alternative measure of knowledge, and show that the key interaction now shows up when the data are coded according to the results of that measure. We are currently left to infer that this would happen. Dijkstra et al., did the right thing in measuring the critical link (knowledge of political affiliation) but they have failed to identify that the overall pattern of results as they stand do not and cannot support their conceptual embodiment hypothesis. Their results show there is no plausible mechanism to explain the effect, no path along which information could flow. Whatever happened, it was not caused by a metaphor being grounded in postural sway.

Using Functional Requirements Formulation in Fault Tree Analysis Construction - A Way to Improve Product's Design

In a technological system, the design has to be thought so that all the possible faults to be mitigated or avoided both in conceptual design and embodiment design phases. This is an ideal point of view because in reality the faults are present and sometimes it is a cumbersome task to find all the possible events and their causes. As a way to help these this paper presents the possibility to use the axiomatic design FR-DP decomposition in order to define the events from a Fault Tree Analyze, its construction, a combination of these two giving results that can be interesting for both methods.

The New Rolling Mill Gearbox Concept Design

Gear design is a state of art in mechanical design topic. In this paper, the systematic gear design concept was used to design the double output shaft gearbox for rolling mill, the aim to reduce cost of production. The design process starts from receive the requirement data, elaborate the data to the design specification. Make a conceptual design, embodiment design or preliminary design and finally detailed design. The all design methodology has suggested systematic decision-making procedures for early stages of the design. The design result is leading to change from the traditional two stage gearbox into the single stage gearbox ratios 1:2.3.

Professional development through lesson study: teaching the derivative using GeoGebra

This study focuses on mathematics teachers’ professional development through elements of Japanese lesson study. The teachers designed a research lesson with regard to sense-making of the derivative using the integration of GeoGebra. In the second year of the four-year lesson study project, seven secondary school teachers – from different Dutch schools – worked cooperatively, building on the first-year experiences with the introduction of the derivative. The teachers designed a lesson that focused on encapsulation of the conceptual understanding of the derivative before solving problems with operational symbolism later in the course. They tried to make sense of the calculus using GeoGebra as a tool to realize surprise in which conceptual embodiment and operational symbolism blend together. The teachers integrated GeoGebra to consolidate the derivative using the visual idea of zooming in on the graph to see its local behavior (where a differentiable function looks ‘locally straight’). The teachers reported that they have learned to use visualizations and experienced the importance of student interaction. The teachers realized that this approach of the derivative – integrating GeoGebra – encouraged them to reflect on how the students made sense of learning activities in general.

Prepositions in MSA and English

Spatial scenes are identical in the world languages. However, cultures may diverge in profiling spatial scenes (Levinson 2003). This paper selects for study the prepositions in and on in English and their Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) counterparts fi and 3ala, arguing that MSA and English seem to diverge in the spatial configurations and meanings of these prepositions. The sub-schemas of CONTAINMENT (in-ness) in MSA are found to partially overlap with those of English, with the other sub-schemas being taken care of by SUPPORT (on-ness) and PUNCTUALITY (point-ness). Such differences classify MSA more as a CONTAINMENT-based language than English, which seems to prefer SUPPORT and PUNCTUALITY. However, English and MSA seem to converge in their metaphoric conceptualizations of states owing to conceptual embodiment (Lakoff 1987). The article discusses the implications of such findings for spatial cognition and cultural cognition and EFL/ESL writing and translating.

THE COMPLEXITIES OF A LESSON STUDY IN A DUTCH SITUATION: MATHEMATICS TEACHER LEARNING

This study combines the Japanese lesson study approach and mathematics teachers’ professional development. The first year of a 4-year project in which 3 Dutch secondary school teachers worked cooperatively on introducing making sense of the calculus is reported. The analysis focusses on instrumental and relational student understanding of mathematical concepts and the transition between the conceptual embodiment and the operational symbolism of the calculus. This paper reports on 2 cycles of lesson studies that took place in the first project year, the first cycle focussing on the notion of the derivative (introduced for polynomials) and the second on trigonometry (as the concepts shift from ratios in a right-angled triangle to functions in the calculus). The lesson study cycles resulted in changes in the teachers’ educational goals and instructional strategies in relation to student understanding. However, the teachers’ desire to be good teachers, their perceived need to prepare students for standard examinations and their reluctance to use computers impeded their progress in developing a lesson study approach. The introduction of a Japanese lesson study approach into a Dutch context merits further reflection in the later years of the project.

On the need for Embodied and Dis-Embodied Cognition

This essay proposes and defends a pluralistic theory of conceptual embodiment. Our concepts are represented in at least two ways: (i) through sensorimotor simulations of our interactions with objects and events and (ii) through sensorimotor simulations of natural language processing. Linguistic representations are “dis-embodied” in the sense that they are dynamic and multimodal but, in contrast to other forms of embodied cognition, do not inherit semantic content from this embodiment. The capacity to store information in the associations and inferential relationships among linguistic representations extends our cognitive reach and provides an explanation of our ability to abstract and generalize. This theory is supported by a number of empirical considerations, including the large body of evidence from cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology supporting a multiple semantic code explanation of imageability effects.

On the Notion and Implications of Organism-Environment System

The 5 papers in this special section examine the hypothesis that organism and environment constitute a single system. Timo Järvilehto and Barry Smith focus on the status of the hypothesis from the perspectives of experimental psychology and philosophy. Järvilehto addresses the precursors of the hypothesis and the reasons for adopting its implied methodology. Smith addresses the epistemological and ontological issues, historical and contemporary, surrounding the core notion of an organism-relative definition of environment. David Miller and Robert Lickliter focus on the status of the hypothesis from the perspectives of development and evolution. Miller addresses the limits on understanding development when organism-environment system and its implied (transactional) methodology are ignored. Likliter addresses the successes of the “epigenetic revolution” in relation to the traditionally dominant gene-centered view as confirmation of the hypothesis. Susan Oyama focuses on the nexus of ideas that define Developmental Systems Theory (DST), a primary conceptual embodiment of the one-system hypothesis. She addresses conceptual differences among proponents of DST and with proponents of related viewpoints that are seemingly accommodating of some version of the hypothesis—differences that are tied to the use, emphasis, and interpretation of “cause,” “information,” and “environment.” In this introduction I take the opportunity to present a personal overview of the conceptual landscape that embeds the one-system hypothesis. My goal is to frame the issues addressed by the 5 authors and to set the stage for future deliberations.

Refrigeration aspects of magnetic particle suspensions

This study examines the feasibility of using magnetic particles in liquid suspension as a working fluid to achieve room temperature refrigeration with a permanent magnetic field source. Potential advantages include facilitation of regenerative heat transfer while avoiding wear, drag, and leakage problems of mechanical sliding seals associated with the use of a solid magnetic working substance. Rheological properties are evaluated in defining an appropriate composition, and performance estimates developed for a conceptual embodiment.

Metaphors, domains and embodiment

Investigations of metaphorical meaning constitution and meaning (in-) variance have revealed the significance of semantic and semiotic domains and the contexts within which they function as basis for the grounding of metaphorical meaning. In this article some of the current views concerning the grounding of metaphorical meaning in experience and embodiment are explored. My provisional agreement with Lakoff, Johnson and others about the “conceptual” nature of metaphor rests on an important caveat, viz. that this bodily based conceptual structure which lies at the basis of linguistic articulations of metaphor, is grounded in a deeper ontic structure of the world and of human experience. It is the “metaphorical” (actually “analogical”) ontological structure of this grounding that is of interest for the line of argumentation followed in this article. Because Johnson, Lakoff and other’s proposal to ground metaphorical meaning in embodiment and neural processes is open to being construed as subjectivist and materialist, I shall attempt to articulate the contours of an alternative theory of conceptual metaphor, meaning and embodiment which counteracts these possibilities. This theory grounds metaphorical meaning and meaning change in an ontological and anthropological framework which recognises the presence and conditioning functioning of radially ordered structures for reality. These categorisations in which humankind, human knowledge and reality participate, condition and constrain (ground) analogical and metaphorical meaning transfer, cross-domain mappings, and blends in cognition and in language, provide the basis for the analogical concepts found in these disciplines.

Embodied categorisation for vision-guided mobile robots

This paper outlines a philosophical and psycho-physiological basis for embodied perception, and develops a framework for conceptual embodiment of vision-guided robots. We argue that categorisation is important in all stages of robot vision. Further, that classical computer vision is unsuitable for this categorisation, however, through conceptual embodiment, active perception can be effective. We present a methodology for developing vision-guided robots that applies embodiment, explicitly and implicitly, in categorising visual data to facilitate efficient perception and action. Finally, we present systems developed using this methodology, and demonstrate that embodied categorisation can make algorithms more efficient and robust.

An integrated modelling environment for the embodiment of mechanical systems

The efficient, economical and often elegant transformation from a design schema to an embodied design solution containing real components is essential for the commercial success of a product. More often the ability of the designer to explore an optimum solution is severely frustrated by the analytically intensive and time-consuming aspects of embodying a concept. This paper presents a computer based system-modelling tool that is to be used by designers during the transformation of a concept to an embodied solution particularly to deal with standard components. This environment provides for the representation of conceptual schemas and subsequent embodiment from computer based component selection modules. These selection modules encompass the full range of electronic representations for standard mechanical components. The strategy for representing a mechanical system, its included components and their associated representations is discussed. The process of constructing a system model, specifying the desired performance characteristics and system resolution are also described.