A Design Interaction Tool That Adapts

ISBN-13: 9783639135893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 164 str.

Wei Peng

Opis

Despite different computerised approaches have beenhardwired to solve various complex practicalproblems; few are founded on an adaptive paradigmsuch that a computational model interacts with itsenvironment, loosely wires itself and learns fromexperience like humans do. This book presents ourattempt to craft a computational model that learnsfrom interactions and adapts based on its experience. We draw ideas from cognitive psychology in relationto human experiential learning, particularly thenotions of situatedness , constructive memory and concept formation . When applied to designactivities, which are intrinsically dynamic andinteractive, this model constructs concepts frominteractions between the agent, the design problemand the use of the design tool. Such a designinteraction tool generates knowledge based on theagent s grounded generalisation from contextualinformation in a situated manner. Adaptivebehaviours emerge from coupled interactions of thesystem from a macroscopic and a microscopic level.This book is suitable for researchers and studentsinterested in pursuing computerised approaches basedon cognitive science and natural computing.

O autorze

Dr Wei Peng is a Research Fellow at RMIT University, Australia. His
research interests include Computational Cognitive System,
Intelligent Systems. Prof. John Gero is a Research Professor at
the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, USA. He was Co-Director
of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the
University of Sydney, Australia.