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Understanding Actions: Contextual Dimensions and Heuristics

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2005)

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The aim of this paper is to analyze how people build an internal representation of actions done by others by matching observable data (objects, events, spatial and temporal context) with knowledge and by making inferences about not observable (intention, goal, anticipation, and planning) data. For that purpose, we list the set of dimensions that define “what an action is” accompanied with their contextual aspects, and the heuristics used by the human cognitive system. Finally, we propose that processing objects properties in terms of function-to-patient relation between objects, and in terms of patient-to-function within objects, is a possible way to explain the context effects with respect to the fine-grained vs. the large-grained semantic organization of the spatial and temporal context.

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  1. LDCI, Université Paris 8/EPHE, 41 rue Guy Lussac, 75005, Paris, France

    Elisabetta Zibetti

  2. Laboratoire Cognition & Usages, Université Paris 8 – 2, rue de la Liberté, 93526, Saint-Denis Cedex 02, France

    Charles Tijus

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  1. Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, 15213-3891, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Anind Dey

  2. Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, 21 Montevideo Street, 1618, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Boicho Kokinov

  3. Computer Science Department, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

    David Leake

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 04469, Orono, Maine, USA

    Roy Turner

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Zibetti, E., Tijus, C. (2005). Understanding Actions: Contextual Dimensions and Heuristics. In: Dey, A., Kokinov, B., Leake, D., Turner, R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3554. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11508373_41

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