First-Person Perceptual Guidance Behavior Decomposition using Active Constraint Classification

TL;DR

This paper investigates how humans use perceptual guidance and control mechanisms during motion in cluttered environments, decomposing their behavior into elemental segments to understand underlying functional elements.

Contribution

It introduces a method to decompose human motion guidance into elemental segments based on invariants, revealing the structure of perceptual and control mechanisms.

Findings

Decomposition of human motion guidance into invariant-based segments

Identification of functional characteristics of perceptual guidance elements

Lawful descriptions of agent-environment interaction mechanisms

Abstract

Humans exhibit a wide range of adaptive and robust dynamic motion behavior that is yet unmatched by autonomous control systems. These capabilities are essential for real-time behavior generation in cluttered environments. Recent work suggests that human capabilities rely on task structure learning and embedded or ecological cognition in the form of perceptual guidance. This paper describes the experimental investigation of the functional elements of human motion guidance, focusing on the control and perceptual mechanisms. The motion, control, and perceptual data from first-person guidance experiments is decomposed into elemental segments based on invariants. These elements are then analyzed to determine their functional characteristics. The resulting model explains the structure of the agent-environment interaction and provides lawful descriptions of specific perceptual guidance and control mechanisms.