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This paper points out the complementarity of HCI and cognitive science in studying agents’ interactions with their environments. Embodied interaction is related to embodied and distributed cognition. A theoretical framework based on the distinction “potentiality/actuality” is outlined as an approach to the concept of “reality” in HCI and research on presence and copresence. Within this framework presence and copresence are specified in connection with an agent’s potentiality to act upon its environment, i.e. to actively explore and manipulate its environment. Methodological problems concerning theoretical and empirical research on interaction are sketched. To explore new methodological ideas New Media Art is used as a test-bed and an ongoing exploratory experiment on communicating "emotions" through robots is briefly reported.
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Seifert, U., Kim, J.H. (2007). Entelechy and Embodiment in (Artistic) Human-Computer Interaction. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Design and Usability. HCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73105-4_102
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