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Director QJRIU
Dr. Zbigniew
Les
QJRIU
Research Council
Prof. Jim Bezdek (University of
West Florida)
Prof.
Jean-Guy Fontaine (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia I.I.T.)
Prof.
Janusz Kacprzyk (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Prof. Anthony Kelly (Australian Catholic
University)
Ms. Magdalena Les (State Government of Victoria,
Ministry of Education)
Prof. Miroslaw Pawlak (Manitoba University)
Prof. Andrzej Pelczar (Jagiellonian
University)
Prof. Edwige Pissaloux (UPMC -
Paris Universitas)
Prof. Zbigniew Ras (University
of North Carolina)
Prof. Sarunas Raudys (Vilnius
University)
Dr. Janusz Rygielski (State Government, Queensland)
Prof. Frank Wilczek 2004 Nobel Laureate, Physics (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)
Understanding
is one of the human capabilities that plays a key
role in all human activities. The Queen Jadwiga
Research Institute of Understanding is aimed at creating a suitable
environment for research concerning all aspects of understanding. The aim
of The Queen Jadwiga Research Institute of
Understanding is to carry out original research that investigates different
aspects of understanding, and publication and exchanging obtained research
results.
Research of the Queen Jadwiga
Research Institute of Understanding includes the following topics:
1. Understanding - general issues
(a) Understanding as a form of communication
among people (differences between cultures, languages)
(b) Understanding as a form of ecumenical
dialogs between religions
(c) Understanding as a form of political
negotiations
(d) Understanding as a new form of
educational process
(e) Understanding as a part of the aesthetic
evaluation process
2. Understanding – epistemological issues
(a) Progress and limit of scientific
explanation
(b) Media and building a new myth
3. Understanding – a model
(a) a theological foundation of the understanding
process
(b) a biological foundation of the
understanding process
(c) an information processing model of the
understanding process
(d) different forms of understanding
1. a visual understanding
2. a verbal understanding
4. Understanding – technical issues
(a) Image Understanding
(b) Shape Understanding
(c) Natural Language Understanding
(d) Speech Understanding
(e) Robotics
4. Understanding in business
(a) Advertising
(b) Negotiations
In the first stage of the development
of the QJRIU research has been focused on research on visual understanding,
understanding as a new form of educational process and understanding and
aesthetic evaluation. Until now these projects have been carried out within
the Queen Jadwiga Foundation activities. The
project ‘Shape Understanding– The Study of The Visual Thinking’ which has
been carried out within The Queen Jadwiga
Foundation activities that started in the year 1999 is in the advanced
stage of research. There are nearly 30 scientific papers published in
international journals or results presented at international conferences
and two books are in preparation. Understanding as a new form of
educational process is focused on the investigation of the visual
understanding in the teaching/learning process and application of the
educational software in the educational process. This project is
continuation of the previous research started in the 1980s in Poland. It
was ‘restarted’ in the year 2000 within The Queen Jadwiga
Foundation activities and is carried out in the QJFRCCAL. Research on
‘Understanding and Aesthetic Evaluation’ has been carried out in the
cooperation with the QJF Arts&Science Gallery
and is focused on the investigation of the shape understanding in aesthetic
evaluation. This project started in the 1980s in Poland and next was continued
in Australia,
at first at Melbourne
University and from
1999 has been part of the research activities of The Queen Jadwiga Foundation.
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