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An intentional dynamics approach to comparing robots with their biological targets
Judith A Effken1, Robert E Shaw
1College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 jeffken@nursing.arizona.edu http://www.nursing.arizona.edu/scripts/facpageV2.asp?txtLoginName=jeffken.
Abstract:
After identifying similarities in the paradigmatic problems of biorobotics and ecological psychology, we suggest a way to compare the performance of robots with that of their biological targets. The crucial comparison is between the intentional dynamics of the robot and those of the targeted animal, a measure that depends critically on recognizing and describing the underlying affordance-effectivity match of the target system.
