This work aims at demonstrating the inherent advantages of embracing a strong notion of social embodiment in designing a real-world robot control architecture with explicit “intelligent” social behaviour between a collective of robots. It develops the current thinking on embodiment beyond the physical by demonstrating the importance of social embodiment. A social framework develops the fundamen...

What mental representations give us the sense of our body as a unique object in the world? We investigated this issue in the context of the rubber hand illusion (RHI), an illusion of body image in which a prosthetic hand brushed synchronously, but not asynchronously, with one's own hand is perceived as actually being one's hand. We conducted a large-scale study of the RHI, and used psychometric...

Nick Barnes and Zhi-Qiang Liu Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence Lab, Department of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, AUSTRALIA Abstract | The basic idea that the perception of actual embodied beings, be they animal or robotic, is fundamentally related to their embodiment is generally referred to as Purposive or Animate Vision. Research in this eld ...

This paper raises the question of the connection between embodiment and higher-level cognition which has been eloquently addressed before, but has not yet received much focus in the AI community. The paper then proceeds to break the question down into subparts, and address how each can be approached and studied. Finally, the paper brieey overviews two directions of our work: group behavior and ...

OBJECTIVES To explore the ways in which general practitioners talk around the concept of "embodiment" after participating in introductory courses in medical anthropology, and to contribute to the debate about what persons and bodies mean for biomedicine. DESIGN This study used a qualitative interview methodology. PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS were general practitioners who had all completed at ...