Search for dissertations about: "situated agency"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 46 swedish dissertations containing the words situated agency.

2. 1. Agency and Artefacts : A cognitive semiotic exploration of design

   Author : Juan Mendoza-Collazos; Kognitiv semiotik; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Agency; enhanced agency; agency hierarchy; derived agency; material agency; intentionality; prior intentions; intentions in action; pictorial representations; artefacts; tool-making; design theory; design semiotics; design research; phenomenology; cognitive semiotics; agentive semiotics; semiotic hierarchy; 4E cognition; bio-cultural evolution; philosophy of design; philosophy of technology;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the role of artefacts in relation to human agency and design within a cognitive semiotics framework. It deals with questions such as What is agency? What are artefacts and how does agency relate to them? What kind of intentions are involved in the activity of designing? What is human-specific with respect to agency and design? How can the origins and evolution of design be explained? Addressing these questions, the thesis proposes a layered model of agency for explaining the relations between different grades of agentive complexity. READ MORE

4. 2. HÉR! An Exploration of Artistic Agency

   Author : Halla Steinunn Stefansdottir; Lärare (Musikhögskolan); []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; music; sound art; agency; situated actions; ecological; enactive; post-phenomenology;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis is concerned with agency in the work of a performer, curator, and composer, and how these agencies are socio-culturally constructed. Grounded in creative practice as primary research methodology, the project builds on feedback loops between creation, analysis, and interpretation. READ MORE

5. 3. “The World at Your Fingertips if You Know the Computer”: Agency, Information and Communication Technologies and Disability

   Author : Rebecka Näslund; Elisabeth Berg; Åsa Gardelli; Sisse Finken; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Agency; Disability; Information and Communication Technologies; Intra-action; Material-discursive; Material Semiotics; Modes of ordering; Situated knowledges; Arbetsvetenskap; Human Work Science;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on the relationships between agency, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and people with disability (in various ages). The aim has been to create an understanding by describing and analysing, and as such, to develop knowledge of how people with disabilities experience agency, ICT, and disability in their everyday lives. READ MORE

6. 4. Situating Simulators : The integration of simulations in medical practice

   Author : Ericka Johnson; Boel Berner; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; reconstitution; medical simulators; simulations; situated learning; medical practice; apprenticeship; legitimate peripheral participation; intra-action; agency; medicinsk utbildning; simulering; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Abstract : This study examined the practices of integrating simulators into medical education. Simulators have been observed in use to discern how medical practices are created out of the simulations. Video recordings of the simulations have been analysed, complemented by interviews with instructors and students. READ MORE

7. 5. Nonhuman Moral Agency: A Practice-Focused Exploration of Moral Agency in Nonhuman Animals and Artificial Intelligence

   Author : Dorna Behdadi; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; moral agency; moral responsibility; artificial intelligence; nonhuman animal; moral psychology; practice-focused; blame; social norm; Strawson; participant stance; consciousness; moral status; moral patient; machine ethics; animal ethics;

   Abstract : Can nonhuman animals and artificial intelligence (AI) entities be attributed moral agency? The general assumption in the philosophical literature is that moral agency applies exclusively to humans since they alone possess free will or capacities required for deliberate reflection. Consequently, only humans have been taken to be eligible for ascriptions of moral responsibility in terms of, for instance, blame or praise, moral criticism, or attributions of vice and virtue. READ MORE