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Showing 1 to 20 of 3563 for “"intention"”.
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Intention
This thesis is an attempt to arrive at a poetic form for a house in a city. It is a form that relies an the nakedness of things (walls, columns and platforms) to define a space.
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User Intention Modelling and Intention Recognition in Games using World State Indicators
… two main areas. First we develop a model of user intentions in games. That model defines various concepts related to player behaviour in (computer) games and interactive environments, such as actions, goals, plans and intentions. Additionally our model shows the relationship between those concepts …
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Intention Perception and Meaning
… investigates the complex relationship between intention and meaning. Study 1 examines how threats to meaning impact subsequent perceptions of intentionality. Following threats to meaning, we predict that an intentionality ascription bias will emerge as an attempt to restore meaning a la the …
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Intention Discrimination and Attribution
… direction and an observer's ability to attribute intention to others' behaviors. Sparked by Skinner's (1945) challenge and based on the behavior analytic writings, the current study proposed that participants would be better able to attribute intention under circumstances with greater stimulus …
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Action, intention and knowledge
… knowledge’; the knowledge we have of our own intentional actions. Part One introduces the target notion by describing three philosophically interesting features it appears to have (Ch. 1) and dismisses two broad approaches to understanding it – a ‘consciousness-based’ and an ‘inferentialist’ …
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A Developmental Theory of Intention
… I advance a developmental theory of intention, according to which an intention is an action under development. In chapter 1, I define and explain the major theories in contention and offer some motivations for each. The theory that an intention is a belief (cognitivism) can help us …
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Voluntary Action and Conscious Intention
… reflect the transition into awareness of motor intentions and are predictive of upcoming movements. Then, in a fourth study, I developed and validated a new paradigm for studying instructed and freely chosen intentions via reaction-time costs associated with changes of mind.</p>
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Models of Intention for Human-Robot Interaction
… interaction is the process of inferring humans' intentions from their observed behavior. In this dissertation, we define the "intent recognition problem" in robotics, describing what it is and why it matters. We then describe a series of systems that we have designed and deployed on several …
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Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction by Intention Recognition
… human-human interaction. The recognition of the intention plays a key role in human-human interaction. It is equally important in human-robot interaction. With the increase of research in the field of robotics, the robots are and will be becoming more and more part of human life. For the robots …
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Detecting, Modeling, and Predicting User Temporal Intention
… model to detect and predict the user's temporal intention of the author upon sharing content in the social network and of the reader upon resolving this content. To build this model, we first examine the three aspects of the problem: the resource, time, and the user.</p> <p>For the resource we …
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An Examination Of Wanting In Anscombe's Intention
In intention, G.E.M. Anscombe sets out to examine the standard ways in which we use the word "intention". To this end, she also examines desire and how desires play a role in our intentions. In the process, she divides desire into two distinct categories, those of weak and strong wanting. This …
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Personhood, Collective Intention and Corporate Moral Responsibility
… natural persons but as irreducible non-agential intentional systems. The moral issue is illustrated through a case study of the global financial crisis of 2007-08. Legal personhood is essential for understanding corporations because they are legally constructed, not natural. Personhood is …
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Suppression of intention tremor by mechanical loading
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1979.
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Safe intention-aware maneuvering of autonomous vehicles
… for a vehicle motion planner to be aware of the intentions of the surrounding agent vehicles. Many existing approaches that ignore the intentions of surrounding vehicles would produce risky or over-conservative plans. In this thesis, we describe a maneuver motion planning system that achieves …
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„What Affects the Entrepreneurial Intention?” – Understanding and Analysing Factors of Entrepreneurial Intention of Nascent Entrepreneurs Influenced by Family Business Background
… a framework of the phenomenon of entrepreneurial intention that examines the relationship between family business background and specific factors of entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial motivation.
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Convention attendees' attitude and its relation to intention
… how the attitudes are related to the attendees' intention to participate in a convention in the future; The findings indicate that there is no significant linear relationship between the attendees' attitude and their intention. In addition, attitude-intention relationship in respect to past …
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Brain computer interface using detection of movement intention
… require computationally expensive algorithms for intention detection and classification.
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Political Responses against Terrorism and Hypothetical Voting Intention.
… and how they are linked to hypothetical voting intention. After September 11, 2001, terrorism became a major concern of democratic governments and their residents. Terrorism poses a constant unseen threat that people want to feel protected from. The goal of the current study was to examine …
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