{"pk":28592,"title":"Bee-ing In the World: Phenomenology, Cognitive Science,and Interactivity in a Novel Insect-Tracking Task","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Dotov, Nie and Chemero (2010) conducted a set of exper-iments to demonstrate how phenomenology, particularly thework of Martin Heidegger, interfaces with experimental re-search in embodied cognitive science. Specifically, they drew aparallel between Heidegger’s notion of readiness-to-hand andthe concept of an extended cognitive system (Clark 2008) bylooking for the presence or absence of interaction-dominantdynamics (Holden, van Orden, and Turvey 2009; Ihlen andVereijken 2010) in a hand/mouse system. We share Dotov,Nie and Chemero’s optimism about the potential for cross-pollination between phenomenology and cognitive science, butwe think that it can be better advanced through a shift in fo-cus. First, we argue in favor of using Maurice Merleau-Ponty’sphenomenological theory as the philosophical foundation forexperimental research in embodied cognitive science. Sec-ond, we describe an audio-visual tracking task in virtual realitythat we designed and used to empirically investigate human-environment coupling and interactivity. In addition to provid-ing further support for phenomenologically-inspired empiricalcognitive science, our research also offers a more generaliz-able scientific treatment of the interaction between humans andtheir environments.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"phenomenology; embodiment; interactivity;agent-environment systems"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zp469x7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Guilherme","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sanches de Oliveira","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Cincinnati","department":""},{"first_name":"Christopher","middle_name":"","last_name":"Riehm","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Cincinnati","department":""},{"first_name":"Colin","middle_name":"T.","last_name":"Annand","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Cincinnati","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28592/galley/18463/download/"}]}