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doi:10.1016/S0950-7051(00)00076-9 
Copyright © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
A computational framework for concept formation for a situated design agent
Received 22 June 2000;
accepted 22 June 2000.
Available online 29 November 2000.
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Abstract
This paper takes the approach that designing is situated and that concepts are formed as a consequence of the situatedness of designing. The paper presents a framework for concept formation that draws on a structure of a design agent that includes sensors, perceptors and conceptors that interact with each other and the external and internal environment of the agent to produce the situation that is a contingent basis for the formation and use of concepts.
Author Keywords: Concept formation; Situatedness; Design agent
Article Outline
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Designing, action, and concept
- 3. Framework for concept formation
- 3.1. Exogenesis and autogenesis
- 3.2. Processes enabling concept formation
- 3.2.1. Sensation
- 3.2.2. Perception
- 3.2.3. Conception
- 3.2.4. Perception–conception recursion
- 3.2.5. Action
- 3.3. Phenomena explained by the proposed framework
- 4. A semi-computational framework
- 4.1. Variables
- 4.2. Processes
- 4.2.1. Sensation
- 4.2.2. Perception and conception
- 4.2.2.1. Perception (fp).
- 4.2.2.2. Conception (fc).
- 4.2.2.3. Expectation (fe).
- 4.2.2.4. Hypothesizing (ff).
- 4.2.3. Memory management
- 4.2.3.1. SOA-Memory construction (fmc-soa).
- 4.2.3.2. COE-memory construction (fmc-coe).
- 4.2.3.3. SOA-Memory retrieval (fmr-soa).
- 4.2.3.4. COE-Memory retrieval (fmr-coe).
- 4.2.3.5. Memory introspection (fmi).
- 4.2.4. Action
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
