Construct · 3 fields · 3 citations

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Physics

a coordinate system relative to which position, velocity, and motion are measured.

A coordinate system relative to which position, velocity, and motion are measured; in an inertial frame Newton's laws hold and no frame is privileged over another. Einstein's 1905 paper Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper put the reference frame at the centre of physics: one event carries different coordinates in frames moving relative to each other, yet the speed of light comes out the same in all of them. The referent is a physical system of axes and clocks, and what a frame supplies is a rule for assigning numbers to where and when an event happens. It shares nothing with the other meanings but the word; a frame here measures motion, it does not interpret a situation or hold a picture.[1]

Unit
A coordinate system that motion is measured against
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Positions, velocities, and times assigned to events relative to a chosen set of axes and clocks

Sociology

a schema of interpretation people use to answer what is going on and to organise experience.

A schema of interpretation that lets a person answer the question of what is going on here and organise an otherwise senseless strip of experience. In Frame Analysis (1974) Goffman used frame for the primary frameworks people apply to make sense of events, and for the keyings and fabrications that turn one framing into another, as when a scuffle is read as play. The referent is a person's or group's interpretive stance toward a situation, and the frame is a cognitive and social boundary drawn around meaning. Unlike the physics meaning it measures nothing, and unlike the film meaning it is not a picture; it is the schema through which a situation is read.[2]

Unit
An interpretive schema applied to a situation
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
The primary framework a participant treats as the definition of a situation, read from conduct and talk

Artificial intelligence

a data structure representing a stereotyped situation, with slots for expected features and default values.

A data structure that represents a stereotyped situation, with slots for the features it expects and default values to fill in when observation runs short. Minsky proposed frames in his 1975 chapter A Framework for Representing Knowledge as a way to store the knowledge a system brings to a familiar scene, such as a child's birthday party or an ordinary room, so that recognition becomes a matter of matching a remembered frame to the input. The referent is a symbolic knowledge structure inside a program, and its unit is a slot-and-filler schema. It resembles the sociology meaning in naming an expectation about a situation, but this frame lives in a machine's memory and is defined formally, not socially.[3]

Unit
A slot-and-filler knowledge structure
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Slots, default fillers, and attached procedures matched against an input scene

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References

  1. Einstein, A. (1905). Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper. Annalen der Physik, 322(10), 891–921. https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.19053221004
  2. Goffman, E. (1974). Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience. Harvard University Press.
  3. Minsky, M. (1975). A framework for representing knowledge. In P. H. Winston (Ed.), The psychology of computer vision (pp. 211–277). McGraw-Hill.

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