Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505, USA
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The intelligent use of space
David Kirsh
Available online 6 April 2000.
Abstract
The objective of this essay is to provide the beginning of a principled classification of some of the ways space is intelligently used. Studies of planning have typically focused on the temporal ordering of action, leaving as unaddressed, questions of where to lay down instruments, ingredients, work-in-progress, and the like. But, in having a body, we are spatially located creatures: we must always be facing some direction, have only certain objects in view, be within reach of certain others. How we manage the spatial arrangement of items around us, is not an afterthought; it is an integral part of the way we think, plan and behave. The proposed classification has three main categories: spatial arrangements that simplify choice; spatial arrangements that simplify perception; and spatial dynamics that simplify internal computation. The data for such a classification is drawn from videos of cooking, assembly and packing, everyday observations in supermarkets, workshops and playrooms, and experimental studies of subjects playing Tetris, the computer game. This study, therefore, focusses on interactive processes in the medium and short term: on how agents set up their workplace for particular tasks, and how they continuously manage that workplace.
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<div class="articleTitle"><p>The intelligent use of space </p></div><!-- articleText --> <strong> <p>David Kirsh<a href="mailto:kirsh@cogsci.ucsd.edu"><sup><img src="http://www.sciencedirect.com/scidirimg/entities/REemail.gif" alt="E-mail The Corresponding Author" title="E-mail The Corresponding Author" border="0"></sup></a></p> </strong> <div style="display: inline;" class="articleText"> <p>Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505, USA</p> </div><!-- articleText --> <div style="display: inline;" class="articleText"><br> Available online 6 April 2000. </div><!-- articleText --> <br><div style="display: inline;" class="articleText"></div><!-- articleText --><div style="display: inline;" class="articleText"> <h3 class="h3">Abstract</h3><p>The objective of this essay is to provide the beginning of a principled classification of some of the ways space is intelligently used. Studies of planning have typically focused on the temporal ordering of action, leaving as unaddressed, questions of where to lay down instruments, ingredients, work-in-progress, and the like. But, in having a body, we are spatially located creatures: we must always be facing some direction, have only certain objects in view, be within reach of certain others. How we <i>manage</i> the spatial arrangement of items around us, is not an afterthought; it is an integral part of the way we think, plan and behave. The proposed classification has three main categories: spatial arrangements that simplify choice; spatial arrangements that simplify perception; and spatial dynamics that simplify internal computation. The data for such a classification is drawn from videos of cooking, assembly and packing, everyday observations in supermarkets, workshops and playrooms, and experimental studies of subjects playing Tetris, the computer game. This study, therefore, focusses on interactive processes in the medium and short term: on how agents set up their <i>workplace</i> for particular tasks, and how they continuously manage that workplace.</p></div> |
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