INTRODUCTION Intervention design is a key component of occupational therapy processes. Occupational therapists craft interventions aiming to respond to people’s occupational needs. Occupational therapists’ intervention design processes often foreground the intended recipients of the interventions, giving little attention to the occupational therapists and their situated processes when designing...

Over the last decade-or-so, a number of researchers have suggested a developmental perspective on artificial intelligence and robotics. The ultimate shared goal among them seems to be the idea of bootstrapping high-level cognition through a process in which the agent interacts with a real physical environment over extended periods of time (Kuniyoshi and Berthouze, 1998; Brooks et al., 1999; Met...

Synthesizing the domains of investigation highlighted in current research in distributed cognition and related fields, this paper offers an initial taxonomy of the overlapping types of resources which typically contribute to distributed or extended cognitive systems. It then outlines a number of key dimensions on which to analyse both the resulting integrated systems and the components which co...

This paper offers a posthumanist account of the relationship between humans and technology, the nature of human existence and the potential for extended life. The paper contributes to the life extension debate currently going on within posthuman studies, but rather than looking at extending life-span in a temporal sense I propose a metaphysically extended view of human existence. Arguing agains...

Psychological approaches to improving vision present an enticing alternative to invasive procedures and corrective lenses; hypnotic suggestion is one such technique. During the past 60 years, multiple studies have documented improvements in the vision of myopic individuals after hypnotic interventions. Given the increasing interest in behavioral and alternative approaches, we have reviewed the ...

The paper presents two knowledge-based approaches to the design of intelligent tutoring systems focusing on diagnosing students and generating adaptive explanations. We discuss the use of a domain ontology encoded with conceptual graphs in two recent works in Artificial Intelligence in Education and Natural Language Processing: STyLE-OLM (an interactive learner modelling system that extracts ex...

Extended cognition is now a reality with rise of social web. Smart devices and emerging collective intelligence is aiding us to take part in tasks much bigger than we can naturally handle. In the age of digital natives, learning is the most affected process by this phenomenon, and has created a void in this space to rethink the model to suit the generation of web. Current educational model is n...

The neuropsychology of anosognosia for memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD) was examined in 92 AD patients and 92 case matched individuals for comparison, using three quantitative methods of assessment: Experimenter Rating Scale (ERS), Objective Judgement Discrepancy (OJD) and Subjective-Rating Discrepancy (SRD). The OJD showed significant domain specific correlations with memory funct...