Dealing with Context through Action-Oriented Predictive Processing

Dealing with Context through Action-Oriented Predictive Processing

(e.g., the current place: restaurant or swimming pool) and the internal state (including for instance metabolic needs) of the individual agent into account. The “behavior setting” (Barker, 1968; Heft, 2001) is an excellent predictor of what action possibilities will show up for a person as relevant: when we are in a restaurant the possibility of calling a waiter is relevant but not when we are ...

Context sensitivity in action decreases along the autism spectrum: a predictive processing perspective.

Recent predictive processing accounts of perception and action point towards a key challenge for the nervous system in dynamically optimizing the balance between incoming sensory information and existing expectations regarding the state of the environment. Here, we report differences in the influence of the preceding sensory context on motor function, varying with respect to both clinical and s...

Action-Oriented Query Processing for Pervasive Computing

Pervasive computing applications monitor physical-world phenomena and integrate data acquisition, communication and actions across small, heterogeneous devices (e.g., smart sensors, network cameras and handheld devices). To ease the development of these applications, we propose to perform their tasks by executing action-embedded queries, which are continuous queries with operations towards devi...

Visual Processing in the Action-Oriented Brain

Tasks = Data + Action + Context: Automated Task Assistance through Data-Oriented Analysis

Human activity unfolds partly through planning and learnt sequences of actions, and partly through reaction to the physical objects and digital data in the environment. This paper describes various techniques related to automatic task assistance that take this role of data as central. Although this brings additional complexity, it also offers ways to simplify or bypass problems in task inferenc...