{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.feedforward","code":"thing-q1535605","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1535605/","name":"feedforward","alternateNames":["feed-forward control"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.ACT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Feedforward is the provision of context about an intended communication before that communication, helping recipients understand its purpose, subject or expected interpretation.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to recognise, assess and provide advance context that helps recipients understand an upcoming communication.","scope":{"in":["The upcoming communication to which the advance context refers.","The purpose, subject and framing conveyed before the main communication.","The recipients and their relevant expectations or contextual needs.","The relationship between the advance context and the communication that follows.","The clarity, accuracy and appropriateness of the advance context."],"out":["Feedforward control in engineering.","Coaching advice about future performance that does not provide context for an upcoming communication.","Feedforward neural-network architecture as a computational structure.","Feedback responding to a communication after it occurs.","General prediction or planning without an intended communication."],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Feedforward precedes the communication it frames and refers to what the speaker or writer intends to communicate.","Advance context can indicate purpose, subject or interpretive expectations without supplying the full communication.","Timing alone is insufficient because an earlier unrelated message does not provide context for the upcoming communication.","Feedback responds to an earlier communication, while feedforward prepares recipients for one that is still to come.","Engineering control signals and future-performance coaching do not establish this communicative sense."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"meaning-and-recognition","name":"Meaning and recognition","description":"Establishes which meaning of feedforward is being used and whether a candidate satisfies it.","layers":[{"id":"interpretive-commitment","name":"Interpretive commitment","description":"Records the definition and community relevant to the instance.","findings":[{"id":"declared-definition","name":"Declared definition","description":"A candidate needs an attributed interpretation rather than an assumed universal definition.","questions":[{"text":"What does feedforward mean in the field and practice being modelled?","id":"declared-definition-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which source or practitioner community supports this 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should the agent do if the recipient cannot act or newer information invalidates the proposal?","id":"actual-response-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evaluation-and-correction","name":"Evaluation and correction","description":"Assesses usefulness and the means of correcting mistaken anticipation.","layers":[{"id":"effect-assessment","name":"Effect assessment","description":"Relates observed outcomes to the intended benefit and a meaningful comparison.","findings":[{"id":"contribution-to-outcome","name":"Contribution to outcome","description":"Evaluation distinguishes input accuracy, implementation quality and the intervention's contribution.","questions":[{"text":"Which outcome measure and comparison would indicate that feedforward improved the target activity?","id":"contribution-to-outcome-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"What evidence separates the feedforward contribution from feedback, other interventions and changing 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