Intuitive Experience Research Articles

Virtual Flower Visualization System Based on Somatosensory Interaction

Somatosensory interaction has already become a research focus with the rapid development of virtual reality (VR) technologies, which has been widely applied in the field of computer vision. However, the task is very challenging because of the serious penetrating phenomena in the process of interaction and the high complexity of the gesture recognition problem. For these issues, we present a feasible solution that solves the problem of finger penetration in virtual flower interaction process, which includes the details of virtual hand position mapping, object collision detection, and finger position optimization. After analyzing the requirements associated with hand gesture in virtual flower interaction, we propose a finger gesture-based method to recognize the custom gestures, which utilized Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm to optimize the trajectory of fingertips and joints. In addition, a prototype of virtual flower somatosensory interaction system has been designed and implemented for interactive forestry application, and the prototype evaluation has been given through users’ experiments. Experimental results show that the proposed methods can effectively solve the problem of finger penetration during grasping, accurately identify the custom gestures, and provide a more natural, intuitive and efficient user experience compared with the traditional interaction.

Extended family constellations workshop efficacy on intuition measure and experience

This study explored the efficacy of an intuition-oriented family constellations process workshop in influencing intuition and consciousness of extended family constellations. Participants were eight white South Africans (male = 1, female = 7; age range = 36 to 62 years). They took a pre-test and post-test measure on their intuition gains from the family constellations process in addition to responding to semi-structured questions on their perceptions and experiences of intuition and ancestral connections. Results suggest the participants experienced gains in intuition and experienced some, variable, form of ancestral connection. Intuition was described as a holistic, inspirational, bodily experience, flowing from an unknown or indeterminate source. Additionally, ancestral connection was experienced bodily and as a felt sense of energy. Results suggest the participants to have experienced gains in intuition and some level of ancestral connection.

Instant Social Networking with Startup Time Minimization Based on Mobile Cloud Computing

Mobile communication and handheld devices are currently extremely popular, and provide people with convenient and instant platforms for social networking. However, existing social networking services cannot offer efficient human-machine interfaces or intuitive user experiences. Mobile users must manually input account information and find targets from search results when attempting to add someone to their friend list on social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, mobile users may not be able to identify correct targets because some usernames are identical. Typos may occur during the input process due to unfamiliar identifiers, further increasing the total operation time. To encourage social initiation between mobile users, we design an instant social networking framework, called SocialYou, to minimize the startup time based on mobile cloud computing. SocialYou proposes an efficient architecture and innovative human-machine interfaces to alleviate the complexity and difficulty for mobile users using handheld devices. In particular, we implement an Android-based prototype to verify the feasibility and superiority of SocialYou. The experimental results show that SocialYou outperforms the existing methods and saves substantial amounts of operation time for mobile social networking.

The Empathy Tank as a revised model for fostering empathy in medical education

Empathy has been difficult to sustain and foster in medical training. Based on empirical evidence and intuitive human experience, this paper proposes that empathy can be re-conceptualized as a dynamic reservoir, referred to as an “empathy tank.” Physicians and learners who have personally experienced or received much empathy will naturally have a stronger tendency and greater capacity for empathy than others who have experienced little. These instances of empathy that fill the “empathy tank” can take the form of personal experiences, re-experiencing memories, and vicarious experiences. As this reservoir is filled, the empathy therein can more readily be poured out to others. Thus, all trainees should be educated to recognize first and foremost their personal need for empathy that they share with patients and subsequently seek encounters that highlight these empathic experiences. Three practical implications for educational interventions are discussed: (1) Learners and preceptors should recognize instances in training of perceived inadequacy as opportunities to provide empathy, (2) Interventions should target foundational rather than secondary issues in empathy, and (3) Interventions should enable empathy in learners to be self-sustaining.

Analisa Dominasi Konstruksi Epistemologi Pembelajaran Qur’an Hadits, Akidah Akhlak, Fiqih, dan SKI yang diajarkan di Madrasah

Talking about epistemology, can not be separated from the method. The method of Islamic education in this case discusses the nature of the ways of working in compiling the science of Islamic education. Among the methods used in compiling the science of Islamic education, by referring to the main source (al-Qur'an) including the hermeneutic methodology. This study aims to describe the dominance of the epistemological construction of the learning of the Hadith Qur'an, the Akidah of Morals, Fiqh, and the SKI taught in Madrasas. The results of the analysis are concluded: 1.) If Islamic Religious Education is broken down into four subjects, namely the Hadith Qur'an, Akhah Akhlak, Fiqh, and SKI, then it can be determined which epistemology dominates between the sub-subjects. 2.) The Hadith Qur'an emphasizes the bayani epistemology, because the discussion is centered on the interpretation of the Qur'an and Hadith texts. While Akidah Akhlak will be more dominated by Irfani's knowledge, because it focuses on the experience of intuition in the form of psychological beliefs and experiences in the form of attitudes. 3.) The Fiqh will be balanced between the Bayani and Burhani epistemology, because in addition to the study of the text of the postulate which is the subject of the ushul fiqh, it also considers social knowledge concerning correspondence and coherence with the condition of social societies. Likewise, the History of Islamic Culture will be dominated by both epistemologies, because the history of Islam, besides being examined from naqli texts (asbabun nuzul / wurud), also requires conformity between sensory experience and historical texts (both in terms of chronology and periodization)

Shunyata, A Philosophical Endeavor Against Assured Philosophical Method in Realizing Truth and Existence and Establishing Perfection of Wisdom Through Non-dual Experience

Madhyamaka defines existence in self-being. There is interdependency between all beings and the human mind. Everything is empty from self-being. Emptiness is universal. Madhyamaka stands midway between affirmation and negation or being and non-being. The only way to comprehend absolute reality is to abandon the realm of reason which, in turn, leads to non-dual (Advaita) experience. Ultimate reality is nothing but universal Emptiness. However, Shunya is empty of self-being as well. In this paper, I have tried to elucidate and criticize Emptiness from the ontological aspect for everything of which the existence of interconnection or interdependency of all entities and mind is inevitably apprehended, though still empty of self-being. From the epistemological perspective, I confronted the fact that it is not possible to describe the emptiness of the world, outcome of intuitional experience of Nirvana, unless the consciousness preserves to maintain, basis for establishing Yogacara thesis.

The Application of Eigenvectors for the Construction of Minimum-Energy Wavelet Frames Based on FMRA

In 1974, J. Morlet raised the concept of wavelet transform and established the inversion formula through the experience of physical intuition and signal processing. In 1986, Y. Meryer created a real small wave base, and the wavelet analysis began to flourish after a multi scale analysis of the same method of constructing the small wave base with S. Mallat. In order to analyze and deal with non-stationary signals, a series of new signal analysis theories are proposed.: Short Time Fourier Transform, time-frequency analysis, wavelet transform, and fractional Fourier transform and so on. In this paper, an explicit algorithm is given to construct the minimum-energy frames based on frame multiresolution analysis via characteristic vectors of the mask matrix. In section 2, we show the structure of minimum-energy wavelet frames in terms of their masks (Lemma 1) and discuss that we should eliminate the correlation of the rows of the mask matrix by the polyphase decomposition technique. Based on FMRA, an explicit algorithm is given to construct this frames. By this method, all the minimum-energy wavelet frames can be obtained. As an application, several examples are showed to explain this method in section 3. This method can also be applied in other fields of wavelet analysis.

An Explicit Algorithm for the Construction of 3-Band Wavelet Frames Based on FMRA

In 1974, an French engineer, J. Morlet raised the concept of wavelet transform and established the inversion formula through the experience of physical intuition and signal processing and in 1986, the famous mathematician, Y. Meyer, created a real small wave base. From then on, Wavelet transform is a rapidly developing new subfield in mathematics and is used in more and more fields, such as signal analysis, image processing, quantum mechanics and theoretical physics etc. Multiresolution analysis is a systematic method for constructing orthonormal wavelet bases and most of the current dilation is M=2 With the development of wavelet transform, M>2 -band wavelet is known to have advantages over 2-band wavelet in some aspects such as in signal processing. However, there are relatively less results for the case of M> 2. Based on this fact and inspired by other similar papers, this paper studies the 3-band wavelets and wavelet frames associated with a given refinable function based on frame multiresolution analysis. In this paper, firstly, a sufficient and necessary condition which the refinable function should satisfy for the existence of wavelet frames is showed. Further, an explicit algorithm to construct this frames is worked out and finally, several designed examples are constructed to illustrate this algorithm.

Transmitting the Sage's "Heart" (II): Instructing Absolute Practice—The Perfection of the Perfect Teaching in Mou Zongsan's Reconstruction of the Confucian Daotong

Mou Zongsan's philosophical Confucianism adopts the originally Buddhist figure of a perfect teaching ( yuanjiao 圓教). This essay investigates Mou's adoption of this concept, showing why Mou thinks it provides a possibility to conceive the essential meaning of moral practice. The rhetoric of the perfect teaching is assumed to warrant its irrefutability and hence underlines, by its very form, the incommunicability of the content of Mou's philosophy allegedly disclosed to the moral subject in an intimate experience of intellectual intuition. Although Mou's blending of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Kantianism becomes traceable, the application of the schema of the perfect teaching on Kantianism in Mou's intended sense remains problematic. The essay closes with a comparison of Mou's philosophical reconstruction of Confucianism with Hegel's justification of Christian faith and an outlook sketching the author's view of how to make good sense of Mou's philosophy.

Techniques for nothingness: Debate over the comparability of hypnosis and Zen in early-twentieth-century Japan.

This paper explores a debate that took place in Japan in the early twentieth century over the comparability of hypnosis and Zen. The debate was among the first exchanges between psychology and Buddhism in Japan, and it cast doubt on previous assumptions that a clear boundary existed between the two fields. In the debate, we find that contemporaries readily incorporated ideas from psychology and Buddhism to reconstruct the experiences and concepts of hypnosis and Buddhist nothingness. The resulting new theories and techniques of nothingness were fruits of a fairly fluid boundary between the two fields. The debate, moreover, reveals that psychology tried to address the challenges and possibilities posed by religious introspective meditation and intuitive experiences in a positive way. In the end, however, psychology no longer regarded them as viable experimental or psychotherapeutic tools but merely as particular subjective experiences to be investigated and explained.

Unconstrained Segue Navigation for an Immersive Virtual Reality Experience

Virtual reality (VR) is a rapidly growing field that has got innovative applications. Two main forms of VR content can be identified in the current applications --computer generated 3D models and adaptations of real world scenarios using digital imagery and video. However, real world adaptations are quite restrictive when it comes to interaction. These restrictions are due either to large storage needs, or to high computational needs, required to generate dynamic intermediate views. Thus, solutions through which real world simulation could be achieved in immersive and interactive VR environments are not available. The research presented in this paper is intended to provide a high degree of interaction to users who engage in immersive VR experiences related to real world adaptations. The solution offered is a navigable grid map of spherical panoramas, which uses a three stage approach. Firstly, intermediate views among spheres are approximated using novel mechanisms. Secondly, an optimization strategy is introduced based on visual locality in which the areas with a higher probability of immediate interaction are given more prominence for quality during rendering. Thirdly, smooth segue transition is achieved through a machine learning backed gesture input system. The three approaches when combined together allow for an intuitive virtual experience while ensuring optimal resource utilization.

Effect of Store Environments on Tourists Impulsive Buying, Self-control and Shopping Satisfaction, Loyalty

The study is to research the extent and degree of store environment factors (sensory, layout and design) effect tourists’ self-control and impulsive buying, and the effect of self-control as a mediator variable in the process of impulsive buying, in the famous tourism destinations, Myeong-dong and Dong-dae-mun. The performance after impulsive buying and self-control of tourists also are included. Data were collected by a questionnaire from 322 participants (international tourists) in the 5 target department stores in Myeong-dong and Dong-dae-mun, Seoul. The models and hypotheses were tested and results showed that first, tourists are always notice, receive and believe the more intuitive experience, and leave a deep expression for their impulsive buying behavior. Second, the change of self-control has a significant impact on impulsive buying behavior. Third, tourists can accept and recognize their self-control behavior after they control their shopping desire. Fourth, tourists do not regret about their impulsive buying behavior, which contains a kind of new shopping concept, for being loyal to the present feelings and their own preferences.

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A Comparative Analysis of Four Explanatory Models to Justify the Language of Mysticism

There are four different models to explain the language of mysticism and its effability: (1) the model of memory (stating the experience of intuition); (2) the model of intuitive intellect; (3) the model of anthropomorphism; and (4) the model of manifestation. The first model negates explaining while intuiting, but states that explaining the experience of intuition is possible after the intuition because it is possible to classify and conceptualize it. By accepting a function of intellect called intuition, the second model states that intellect functioning as heart and intellectual intuition in the context of intuition by heart is possible, which results in the direct involvement of intellectual explanation. The third model states that of mysticism means explaining the reality of existence (individual unity) through words and concepts, and illusion whose function is image-making is in charge of anthropomorphism and assisted by intellectual purification, which results in understanding anthropomorphizing while purifying. The forth model states that explanation is the very manifestation of divine names in the form of words (manifestation of the name of names) and since the divine names are themselves the manifestation of Truth, explanation or the name of name is the manifestation of divine essence and its explanation. By comparing these models and reviewing their merits and demerits, it can be said that possible effability is justified and is an intellectual method.

Intuition in Mathematics: a Perceptive Experience

This study applied a method of assisted introspection to investigate the phenomenology of mathematical intuition arousal. The aim was to propose an essential structure for the intuitive experience of mathematics. To achieve an intersubjective comparison of different experiences, several contemporary mathematicians were interviewed in accordance with the elicitation interview method in order to collect pinpoint experiential descriptions. Data collection and analysis was then performed using steps similar to those outlined in the descriptive phenomenological method that led to a generic structure that accounts for the intuition surge in the experience of mathematics which was found to have four irreducible structural moments. The interdependence of these moments shows that a perceptualist view of intuition in mathematics, as defended by Chudnoff (Chudnoff, 2014), is relevant to the characterization of mathematical intuition. The philosophical consequences of this generic structure and its essential features are discussed in accordance with Husserl’s philosophy of ideal objects and theory of intuition.

Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair

The author explores the concept of comfort in relation to the setting. The concept of comfort, an unusual word in the psychoanalytic lexicon, describes the intuitive and complex experience of patient and analyst being together in the analytic office. The couch and the chair are not the only tools of the setting, but they are potential instruments with which to study the therapeutic process, both in high-frequency therapy and in lower-frequency treatments. To describe the transformations that an alternative experience of comfort can promote, the author looks at the intersection of this concept with the body–mind relationship and with the Bionian concept of binocular vision.

The Crime of ‘Making Real’ in All That Fall

Examining the potential crime in All That Fall as a crime of reification, this essay seeks to expose two ontological levels within the radio play that are governed by opposing temporalities. It concludes with an assertion that attempting to ‘make real’ distorts an intuitive experience of reality.

Doubt, the possibility of refusing the spiritual essence in the hume philosophy

Hume rises in a period of time that world was strongly influenced by growth of science. But, since this experience-oriented philosopher is affected by Barclay, he focuses on science experimental aspect a lot and believes that all human knowledge is derived from intuitive impression. He recourses to a general principle for creating this new base in human knowledge and includes that all human mental containers is made of impressions and imaginations and the provenance of them is intuitive experience. After issuing this general principle, Hume examines his beliefs for human knowledge like belief to the principle of causality, belief in spiritual essence1 and so on. He finally concluded that none of these beliefs do not come to the human intuitive experience. So, the verdict to existence of these beliefs is invalid by recourse to sense or sagacity. But when human treads into the field of action and routine, he/she cannot deny the existence of these beliefs. In this article we try to discuss about Hume skepticism and his definition of essence by referencing to the treatise about human nature book first, second, fifth, sixth seasons and sixth season forth chapter and the study of human understanding book first, second and third chapters of eighth and twelfth seasons; and demonstrate that Hume Cannot be a full-blown skeptic even by denying spiritual essence. Keywords : doubt, spiritual essence, impressions, imaginations, Hume.

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Using expert elicitation to quantify catchment water balances and their uncertainties

AbstractExpert elicitation with the participation of 35 experts was used to estimate a water balance for the nested Ahlergaarde and Holtum catchments in Western Denmark. Average annual values of precipitation, evapotranspiration, and surface runoff as well as subsurface outflow and recharge and their uncertainty were estimated in a multistep elicitation, where experts first gave their opinion on the probability distribution of their water balance component of interest, then the average annual values and uncertainty of water balance components and catchment‐scale water balances were obtained by reaching consensus during group discussions. The obtained water balance errors for the 1055 km2 Ahlergaarde catchment and 120 km2 Holtum catchment were −5 and −62 mm/yr, respectively, with an uncertainty of 66 and 86 mm/yr, respectively. As an advantage of the expert elicitation, drawing on the intuitive experience and capabilities of experts to assess complex, site‐specific problems, the contribution of independent sources of uncertainties to the total uncertainty was also evaluated similarly to the subsurface outflow component, which traditionally is estimated as the residual of the water balance.