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• Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all of the processes associated with the production of a building, from the acquisition of natural resources to product delivery. ... Embodied energy is a significant component of the lifecycle impact of a home.
• Every building is a complex combination of many processed materials, each of which contributes to the building's total embodied energy. Renovation and maintenance also add to the embodied energy over a building's life.
• It was thought until recently that the embodied energy content of a building was small compared to the energy used in operating the building over its life. ... Embodied energy can be the equivalent of many years of operational energy.
• The single most important factor in reducing the impact of embodied energy is to design long life, durable and adaptable buildings.
• The importance of embodied energy and other environmental impacts does not become apparent until we examine the materials from a life cycle approach, usually known as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
• THE IMPORTANCE OF EMBODIED ENERGY.
• Embodied energy content varies enormously between products and materials.
• Choices of materials and construction methods can significantly change the amount of energy embodied in the structure of a building. ...
• Embodied energy is not occupant dependent - the energy is built into the materials. Embodied energy content is incurred once (apart from maintenance and renovation) whereas operational energy accumulates over time and can be influenced throughout the life of the building.
• Research by CSIRO has found that the average household contains about 1,000 GJ of energy embodied in the materials used in its construction. ...

•   Embodied Evolution.
• Try our Java simulation of the Embodied Evolution experiments. ...
• Embodied Evolution: Distributing an Evolutionary Algorithm in a Population of Robots Robotics and Autonomous Systems 39/1 (2002), 1-18. ...
• Embodied Evolution: Embodying an Evolutionary Algorithm in a Population of Robots .
• Embodied Evolution: A Response to Challenges in Evolutionary Robotics .

• Evolving Efficient Locomotive Strategies in Embodied Agents.
• Embodied Agents (Virtual Creatures).
•   An Embodied Agent (aka Virtual Creature).
• The morphology of the embodied agent is completely predetermined and not subject to the forces of evolution. The brain of the embodied agent is composed of a complex recurrent neural network. ...
•   Genetic Makeup of Embodied Agents.
• Each embodied agent is endowed with an recurrent neural network (the brain) that maintains several time dependent context layers. ... Since my goal is to produce intelligent/effective locomotive strategies, the weights of the recurrent artificial neural network (ANN) are evolved to effectively decode the incoming sensory data and then produce output to properly manipulate the motors, joints, and appendages of a particular morphology of embodied agent and generate efficient motions that are then rewarded.
• A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is employed to train the Recurrent Nerual Network that each embodied agent is endowed with. ...
• Figure 5 also demonstrates how a population of embodied agents evolve and compete as a population. ...
• , "Evolving intelligent embodied agents within a physically accurate environment", California State University, Long Beach (2002) .

• Post-Embodied AI.
• On the Integration of Embodied and Unembodied Approaches .
•   Some distinguished AI theorists and practitioners believe that embodiment is thoroughly unnecessary for AI; others argue that it’s absolutely critical, and any AI system that’s not embodied doesn’t have a prayer of approaching true AGI. ...
•   This leads me to the notion of post-embodied mind – intelligence that possesses a body (or more than one), but also possesses knowledge not derived from its body’s sensorimotor capabilities in any way. ...
• Post-embodied mind is not humanly natural, but I will argue that it’s actually a more effective approach to intelligence than the one embodied in our brains. ...   A human with a special chip in their brains connecting them to the Internet and a massive network of interconnected databases – that would be a post-embodied human.   It seems obvious that a post-embodied human would have a lot easier time learning and thinking than a plain old embodied human.   Similarly, a post-embodied proto-AGI system is going to have a lot easier time getting trained to be really smart than a plain old embodied proto-AGI.
•   Basically, we’re pursuing a combination of natural language based teaching, loading-in of formally encoded knowledge, and control of a simple embodied agent.   The AI architecture is specifically designed to enable this kind of broadly integrative, post-embodied approach. ...
•   Dreyfus drew on Continental philosophy to argue that human intelligence is fundamentally situated in the body, and that considering intelligence as separated from embodied-ness is about as sensible as considering cognition as separate from memory. ...   In “The Embodied Mind” (1992), Francisco Varela and his collaborators deepened Dreyfus’s critique by connecting it with Eastern philosophies of mind and being.
•   Rodney Brooks (1999) and Hugo de Garis (De Garis and Korkin, 2002) are examples of well-known robotics researchers whose goal is to begin with simple robots carrying out simple embodied cognition, and then gradually make the robots and the corresponding cognitions more complex. ...
•   Enumerating all these cases, for a system without a library of embodied experiences in its mind, would be extremely laborious.   On the other hand, for a system with a library of embodied experiences, it’s easier: there are thousands of examples of in-ness in storage, and plenty of patterns on different levels of abstraction emergent from these. ...
•   The point is that these definitions, in an embodied mind, are only the top of a pyramid of more and more abstract patterns emergent from sensorimotor data. ...

• Where The Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction .
• Where the Action Is draws on recent research trends in interactive systems to explore the foundations of a new model of using and experiencing computer systems -- what I call "embodied interaction. ...
• The idea of Embodied Interaction reflects a number of recent trends that have emerged in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. ...
• In place of the Cartesian model, phenomenology explores our experiences as embodied actors interacting in the world, participating in it and acting through it, in the absorbed and unreflective manner of normal experience. ...
• Drawing from the writings of a number of phenomenologists, and especially from Heidegger, Schutz and Wittgenstein, Where the Action Is develops an understanding of embodied interaction organised in terms of the creation, manipulation and communication of meaning, and the establishment and maintenance of practice. Rather than embedding fixed notions of meaning within technologies, embodied interaction is based on the understanding that users create and communicate meaning through their interaction with the system (and with each other, through the system). ...
• On the basis of this understanding, we can set out a range of design principles that are reflected by systems exploiting embodied interaction. This principles not only reflect important issues for design practice, but they also provide a framework for analysing embodied interaction in existing systems. ...
• A longer article about the embodied interaction. ...

• Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition .
• The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from cognitive science, psychology, robotics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and related fields to discuss the role of developmental and embodied views of cognition, and in particular, their mutual relationship. ...
• In search of ontogenetic prerequisites for embodied social intelligence.
• Embodied intentional dynamics of bacterial behavior.
• Three embodied vision-guided docking methods for mobile robots.
• DECO stands for Development of Embodied Cognition. ...

• Embodied Cognition.
• Embodied Cognition is a growing research program in cognitive science that emphasizes the formative role the environment plays in the development of cognitive processes. ... Since embodied accounts of cognition have been formulated in a variety of different ways in each of the sub-fields comprising cognitive science (i. ... In addition, all of the different formulations of the general embodied cognition thesis share a common goal of developing cognitive explanations that capture the manner in which mind, body, and world mutually interact and influence one another to promote an organism’s adaptive success.
• General Characteristics of Embodied Cognition .
• Embodied Cognition vs. ...
• Philosophical Implications of the Embodied Cognition Research Program .
• Although ideas applied in the embodied cognition research program can be traced back to the seminal works of Heidegger, Piaget, Vygotsky, Merleau-Ponty, and Dewey, the current thesis can be seen as a direct response and, in some cases, a proposed alternative to the cognitivist/classicist view of the mind, which conceptualizes cognitive functions in terms of a computer metaphor. ...
• Embodied cognition theorists view cognitivist/classicist accounts as problematic for many reasons, but they are especially concerned that these accounts result in an isolationist assumption that attempts to understand cognition by focusing almost exclusively on an organism’s internal cognitive processes. ... Consequently, this isolationist assumption is perceived to result in decreased explanatory power since it de-emphasizes two crucial factors that are needed to understand cognitive development: 1) the exact way organisms are embodied, and 2) the manner in which this embodied form simultaneously constrains and prescribes certain interactions within the environment. In its place, embodied cognition theorists favor a relational analysis that views the organism, the action it performs, and the environment in which it performs it as inextricably linked. Yet, before one can fully appreciate why embodied cognition theorists favor a relational over an isolationist analysis, it is necessary to discuss the theoretical assumptions that comprise the general embodied cognition framework.
• General Characteristics of Embodied Cognition.
• Since the present embodied cognition research program is in its early stages, the general approach does not yet have hard and fast tenets that are agreed upon by all embodied cognition theorists. Consequently, this program is rather fluid, in that even the central researchers are striving to understand further exactly what is meant by embodied cognition. Yet, this should not prevent the characterization of the common assumptions found in most embodied cognition theories. The goal of this section is to highlight some of the most common theoretical assumptions shared by embodied accounts of cognition. The viewing of these assumptions together will provide a clearer picture of what embodied cognition roughly entails as a research program.

• Embodied conversational agents - let's specify and evaluate them!.

• Embodied Writing.

• Embodied Literacies .
• Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching is a response to calls to enlarge the purview of literacy to include imagery in its many modalities and various facets. ...
• Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching comes at a critical time in our cultural history. ...

• Six Views of Embodied Cognition.
• The emerging viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the body’s interactions with the world. ...   The sixth claim has received the least attention in the literature on embodied cognition, but it may in fact be the best documented and most powerful of the six claims.
•   Proponents of embodied cognition take as their theoretical starting point, not a mind working on abstract problems, but a body that requires a mind to make it function. ...
• This kind of approach has recently attained high visibility, under the banner of embodied cognition. ...
•   If the term “embodied cognition” is to retain meaningful use, we need to disentangle and evaluate these diverse claims. ...
• Frequently in the literature on embodied cognition several or all of these claims are presented together as if they represented a single point of view.   This strategy may have its uses, for example in helping to draw a compelling picture of what embodied cognition might be and why it might be important. ...
• A cornerstone of the embodied cognition literature is the claim that cognition is a situated activity (e. ...
•   Nevertheless, an attraction to something like this claim permeates the literatures on embodied and situated cognition. ...
• More broadly than the stringent criteria for situated cognition, the embodied cognition approach leads us to consider cognitive mechanisms in terms of their function in serving adaptive activity (e. ...
•   Semantic memory and the formation of concepts are similarly explained in terms of embodied memory patterns, differing from episodic memory only in frequency of the pattern’s use across many situations. ...
•   Our understanding of the “how” system of vision suggests how this type of embodied memory might work. ...
• While this off-line aspect of embodied cognition has generated less attention than situated cognition, evidence in its favor has been quietly mounting for many years. ...
•   It is a commentary on the historical strength of the non-embodied viewpoint, then, that during the 1980’s the study of imagery was dominated by a debate over whether images were in fact image-like in any meaningful sense. ...
•   Implicit memory also appears to be an embodied form of knowledge, consisting of a kind of perceptual and/or procedural fluency (e. ...

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