Assignment03_Jifei

Posted: February 28th, 2013 | Author: jifei | Filed under: Assignment 3 | No Comments » When a bike is broken in the middle of the road, and we happened to have a future gadget like Google Glass with us. We wear the glass and try to fix the bike. the question is, what kind of information the Glass would provide to us? According to the JITIR system, the Glass would automatically search the potential solutions base on the condition of the environment and the bike. Or it would suggest us different tools to fix it. As a user, what we have to do is just perceiving the information and filter those which are not fit. This is a pretty typical approach of artificial intelligence. In this approach we assume that human perceptions are passive. our eyes are like a camera, statically sitting there and waiting for something happen. It also implies that if something could be done in a way without any effort, we human are likely to chose that way. As in the bike example, if the Glass could provided me directly what’s wrong with my bike and an precise procedure of fixing it, that would be something that I want. I am skeptical about this approach. For me human perception is not a mode of passive receiving, but an interweave between receiving and actively searching.  Alva Noë wrote in his book <action in perception> that human’s perception is not something just happens in brain, but a skillful activity of human as a whole^[i]. According to him, the sense of vision, for example, is acquired not just by passively watching but also bodily engaging in the world. If one cannot interact with the world with his/her sensorimotor knowledge, even if his/her eyes physiologically function well, he/she still cannot perceive. This radical theory stresses the importance of sensorimotor skills in perception. I therefore think, in the frame of just-in-time learning, it is not just about information providing, but more about encouraging active searching. It is about trying things out. what a computer can do in this system is to provide cues that could accelerate this interaction loop, not end it as soon as possible. (more discussion to come….)

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