scholarly journals Toward a common representational framework for adaptation.

2019 ◽  
Vol 126 (5) ◽  
pp. 660-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon M. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Representational Framework

scholarly journals Representations as Metalinguistic Macro-Awareness: An Experiment on 11–12 Years Old Greek Students within the Framework of Pluralistic Approaches

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-101
Author(s):  
Katerina Krimpogianni
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Full Advantage ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Metalinguistic Awareness ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Old Greek ◽  
Representational Framework

SummaryIn order to transition from a monolingual foreign language course to a multilingual one, all the elements that are connected to students’ cognition should be taken into consideration in order to facilitate this shift. Working with classes of French as a Foreign Language involving 11–12 years old Greek students, our study revealed that by switching to multilingual teaching, students’ representations of language(s) start to emerge; these representations had in most cases been hidden, incoherent and fossilized in teaching monolingual classes. While considering metalinguistic awareness, a variable that is central to our research, as a prerequisite for resolving problems emerging in a multilingual educational context, this article seeks to show that the representations language learners make of themselves and their learning constitute metalinguistic reflection at a macro level, which may influence how metalinguistic awareness functions when performing multilingual tasks. This paper focuses on the processing of qualitative data: meta-discourse analysis of the learners participating in our study led us to establish a typology of representations that enabled us to highlight what aspects to focus on in the classroom so as to prepare students to reflect on language more intensively. This involved guiding learners towards modifying their representational framework, by addressing deficiencies and correcting their representations characterized as “unproductive”, in order to take full advantage of multilingual teaching/learning situations.

Simplifying the Design of Human-Like Behaviour

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna J. Bryson ◽  
Emmanuel Tanguy
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Virtual Character ◽  
Agent Behavior ◽  
Emotion Representation ◽  
Representational Framework

Human intelligence requires decades of full-time training before it can be reliably utilized in modern economies. In contrast, AI agents must be made reliable but interesting in relatively short order. Realistic emotion representations are one way to ensure that even relatively simple specifications of agent behavior will be expressed with engaging variation, and those social and temporal contexts can be tracked and responded to appropriately. We describe a representation system for maintaining an interacting set of durative states to replicate emotional control. Our model, the Dynamic Emotion Representation (DER), integrates emotional responses and keeps track of emotion intensities changing over time. The developer can specify an interacting network of emotional states with appropriate onsets, sustains, and decays. The levels of these states can be used as input for action selection, including emotional expression. We present both a general representational framework and a specific instance of a DER network constructed for a virtual character. The character’s DER uses three types of emotional state as classified by duration timescales, keeping with current emotional theory. We demonstrate the system with a virtual actor. We also demonstrate how even a simplified version of this representation can improve goal arbitration in autonomous agents.

Family of Information System Meta-Artifacts

2012 ◽  
pp. 203-223
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Organizational Systems ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Future System ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Design Type ◽  
Representational Framework

Development of the informative classification scheme for information system artifacts would be highly useful for design researchers in focusing and organizing their research projects and identifying gaps. There have been few dated attempts at IS classification mostly focusing on intra-organizational systems. This chapter stresses the need for newer frameworks, which would accommodate for recent developments in IS from the design-type research perspective. The chapter outlines one possible approach, which incorporates individuals, groups, organizations and markets as possible components. Classification could span through the layers of the representational framework presented earlier to produce the families of meta-requirements and synthetic and technological meta-systems. Design research frontier helps in identifying possible developments from the existing meta-systems towards true future system forms. Along this path design researchers are expected to encounter phantom forms.

Simplifying the Design of Human-Like Behaviour

2012 ◽  
pp. 32-53
Author(s):  
Joanna J. Bryson ◽  
Emmanuel Tanguy
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Virtual Character ◽  
Specific Instance ◽  
Emotion Representation ◽  
Representational Framework ◽  
Over Time

Human intelligence requires decades of full-time training before it can be reliably utilised in modern economies. In contrast, AI agents must be made reliable but interesting in relatively short order. Realistic emotion representations are one way to ensure that even relatively simple specifications of agent behaviour will be expressed with engaging variation, and those social and temporal contexts can be tracked and responded to appropriately. We describe a representation system for maintaining an interacting set of durative states to replicate emotional control. Our model, the Dynamic Emotion Representation (DER), integrates emotional responses and keeps track of emotion intensities changing over time. The developer can specify an interacting network of emotional states with appropriate onsets, sustains and decays. The levels of these states can be used as input for action selection, including emotional expression. We present both a general representational framework and a specific instance of a DER network constructed for a virtual character. The character’s DER uses three types of emotional state as classified by duration timescales, keeping with current emotional theory. We demonstrate the system with a virtual actor. We also demonstrate how even a simplified version of this representation can improve goal arbitration in autonomous agents.

A Representational Framework for Scenarios of System Use

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 219-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie I. Antón ◽  
Colin Potts
Keyword(s):  
System Use ◽  
Representational Framework

scholarly journals Harun Farocki's Asignifying Images

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 740-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Celis Bueno
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Video Installation ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Informational Capitalism ◽  
Audiovisual Work ◽  
Representational Framework ◽  
Role Of Information

With the recent publication of Signs and Machines by Maurizio Lazzarato and Critical Semiotics by Gary Genosko, the concept of asignifying semiotics introduced by Félix Guattari in the late 1960s is regaining attention. This revived interest responds largely to the rise and consolidation of new technologies of power based on algorithmic control and Big Data analysis. In the new context of informational capitalism, Guattari’s asignifying semiotics appears as a powerful conceptual tool for exploring the role of information technologies in the reproduction of capitalist power relations. This article contributes to this discussion by introducing the notion of asignifyng images in order to explore the role that images acquire in this new age of algorithmic control. To achieve so, this article focuses on Harun Farocki's concept of operational images and reads some of his audiovisual work through the prism of Guattari’s asignifying semiotics. More specifically, this article compares the representational account of labour in the film Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) with the non-representational perspective deployed by the video installation Counter-Music (2004). This distinction between a representational and a non-representational framework responds to the distinction between signifying and asignifying semiotics. By comparing these two perspectives this article attempts to delineate some key elements for a broader reflection upon the transformation of the role of images in the reproduction of contemporary capitalism.

A Villa in the Jungle: Th e Arab Awakening through the Lens of the Israeli Media

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neve Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Regional Policies ◽  
Representational Framework

In the Israeli media, the message conveyed to Hebrew-speaking audiences has been that the uprisings in the Arab world are clashes between ethnic, religious or tribal groups. Th is depiction fi ts well within the representational framework of Israel as an island of civilization surrounded by savages. Th is conceptual framework serves to determine Israel’s regional policies, both with many of its neighboring countries and with the Palestinians. Th e Israeli media, in other words, has perpetuated an isolationist jungle metaphor, while trying to convince the viewers that the uprisings will have only minor impact on the villa that is Israel.

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