Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on computational research on interaction and agency, part 2
The Ecological Expert: Acting to Create Information to Guide Action
HICS '98 Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Human Interaction with Complex Systems
Locating Oneself on a Map in Relation to Person Qualities and Map Characteristics
Proceedings of the international conference on Spatial Cognition VI: Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space
Locating Oneself on a Map in Relation to Person Qualities and Map Characteristics
Proceedings of the international conference on Spatial Cognition VI: Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space
Gestures in geology: the roles of spatial skills, expertise, and communicative context
SC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Spatial cognition
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Epistemic actions are actions in the physical environment taken with the intent of gathering information or facilitating cognition. As students and geologists explain how they integrated observations from artificial rock outcrops to select the best model of a three-dimensional geological structure, they occasionally take the following actions, which we interpret as epistemic: remove rejected models from the field of view, juxtapose two candidate models, juxtapose and align a candidate model with their sketch map, rotate a candidate model into alignment with the full scale geological structure, and reorder their field notes from a sentential order into a spatial configuration. Our study differs from prior work on epistemic actions in that our participants manipulate spatial representations (models, sketches, maps), rather than non-representational objects. When epistemic actions are applied to representations, the actions can exploit the dual nature of representations by manipulating the physical aspect to enhance the representational aspect.