A language-based AI facilitator has access only to verbal traces of embodied inquiry and steers inquiry toward what can be put into words¶
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q1 i? The embodied and social dimension of group inquiry remained invisible to the Gem, which had access only to language plus the photographs students chose to send. → Eugenio Tufino 2026
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Eugenio Tufino 2026¶
Eugenio Tufino, Paola Damiani. (2026). Embodied inquiry with AI as facilitator: an exploratory case study. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21349 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.21349
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Authors' interpretive analysis of the facilitator's channel: it operated through language alone supplemented by chosen photographs, so handling, pointing, symbiotic gestures and shared sketches were invisible to it, risking a pull toward the verbal channel.
"The embodied and social dimension described in Section 3 remained invisible to it: the handling of the cans, the pointing and the symbiotic gestures, the shared sketches, the negotiation of meaning within the group as it acted"
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A language-based AI facilitator has access only to verbal traces of embodied inquiry and steers inquiry toward what can be put into words |
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A language-based AI facilitator has access only to verbal traces of embodied inquiry and steers inquiry toward what can be put into words |
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