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Physical Presence [PHP]

Term code: AUG-0914 · Discipline: Agentic AI (AG) · Period: 2 · Language: en

Description

A condition in which an AI system has a physical, embodied form present in the user's environment, treated as a graded contextual property of the interaction setting rather than as a discrete event or an effect claim.

Operational definition

STATE. Coded per interaction setting on an ordinal scale of physical co-presence: 0 = screen/text only, 1 = audio or projected presence, 2 = stationary embodied device, 3 = mobile/object-handling embodied robot sharing the user's space. Coding is based on the system's observable form, independent of any behavioural outcome.

Measurement schema

Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Setting-level coding of the co-presence level (0-3) by raters from session metadata or video, with agreement could be reported as weighted kappa. Distinct from any outcome instrument: this schema indexes the embodiment condition only, not its consequences.

Broader topic

https://andreasehstandlicenseofclarityloc.github.io/augmanitai-periodic/#topic-agentic-ai

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