Psychology has always treated behavior and experience as embedded in a unidimensional flow in time, the “stream of behavior”. This means that events and actions occupy non-overlapping time-intervals in this stream. There is reason to believe that the structure of lives is richer and more interesting. I describe this structure as a composite of nearly independent strands that run concurrently, and are asynchronous. This is a “deep structure” of lives in contrast to the current conception, which treat lives as if they were “flat”. I will present an ontology of lives, and its application to LifeMaps, a smartphone platform under development.
Event Details
The Structure of Lives
- Event Date: November 14, 2016
- Event Start Time: 12:00 PM
- Event End Time: 1:00 PM
- Event Location: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
- Event Type: Human and Computer Vision Series
- Event Semester: Fall 2016
- Event Contact: Dr. Michael Kubovy
- Event Extra info: <a href="http://people.virginia.edu/~mk9y/">Dr. Michael Kubovy</a>