We need to perceive in order to act, but we also need to act in order to perceive (Gibson, 1979). Perceiving and acting are intrinsically connected to each other.
This course is a follow-up of the undergraduate course and goes into the details of our perception-action behaviors. Formal analyses of ambient flow fields generated by relative motion (e.g., optical, acoustical, or inertial transformations) are proposed, and interesting geometrical properties are extracted that underlie movement regulation.
Examples are taken from simple (e.g., reaching an object with the hand, standing, walking, moving the eyes) and complex (somersaulting, jumping, driving, flying) behaviors, in humans and non-humans (robots, animals).