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initiation, configuration, permission, interpretation and release; self-hugs and embraces involving animals or objects remain boundary cases requiring explicit classification.", "in_scope": [ "Participants and their respective roles in initiating, receiving or reciprocating an embrace", "Arm placement, bodily contact, orientation, pressure and duration", "Invitation, permission, refusal, withdrawal and freedom to disengage", "Expressed purpose, situational context and participant-specific interpretations", "Changes during the embrace, release and reported immediate experience" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The overall friendship, family relationship or partnership between participants", "Touch practices such as handshakes, massage and hand-holding when no embrace occurs", "Wrestling holds, restraint and assisted lifting whose defining function is bodily control or support", "Clinical treatment protocols and claims about long-term health effects", "Metaphorical, textual or emoji hugs without a bodily embrace" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An arm-based enclosing or holding gesture accompanies bodily contact; proximity or an incidental collision alone does not establish a hug.", "The episode has an identifiable embrace phase, distinguishing it from a passing touch, pat or hand placement.", "Mutual arm wrapping is not required: record a one-sided embrace separately from reciprocation or permission.", "An embrace described as a hug can still be unwanted; its label does not establish consent or freedom to leave.", "When cuddling, lifting or restraint overlaps with an embrace, identify the hug episode and the additional action separately instead of treating the terms as interchangeable." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Participants and reciprocation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Participant identities or anonymous references; initiator, recipient, mutual initiator; reciprocating, not reciprocating, unclear", "why_it_matters": "Separates who performs the embrace 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without inferring feelings from its appearance." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify an embrace episode and distinguish an offered hug from one that occurred.", "Ask whether a hug is wanted and clarify preferred contact before approaching.", "Record each participant's permission, reciprocation and interpretation separately.", "Adapt arm placement, pressure, orientation or duration to expressed preferences and physical constraints.", "End or avoid contact when permission is refused, withdrawn or unresolved.", "Offer a non-contact acknowledgment when a hug is unwanted or impractical." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "embrace-identity", "name": "Embrace identity", "description": "Establishes which bodily episode is being called a hug and where neighbouring actions overlap.", "rationale": "A hug needs a recognisable embrace configuration without requiring mutual affection, reciprocation or a single posture.", "layers": [ { "id": "embrace-form", "name": "Embrace form", "description": "Describes the enclosing gesture and bodily contact that support identifying the episode.", "findings": [ { "id": "enclosing-contact", "name": "Enclosing contact", "description": "Record arm placement, orientation and contact regions rather than relying exclusively on the word hug.", "questions": [ { "text": "What enclosing or holding gesture and bodily contact make this episode an embrace?", "kind": "definition", "id": "enclosing-contact-q01" }, { "text": "Who calls the episode a hug, and is that label supported by observation or participant description?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "enclosing-contact-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "overlapping-actions", "name": "Overlapping actions", "description": "Separates the embrace from associated cuddling, support, lifting or bodily control.", "findings": [ { "id": "hug-boundaries", "name": "Hug boundaries", "description": "Allow overlapping action labels while identifying what the hug model itself describes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is there a distinct embrace episode within the cuddling, carrying, restraint or other surrounding activity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "hug-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Does the episode involve a self-embrace, animal or object that requires an explicit extension of this model's scope?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "hug-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "permission-and-agency", "name": "Permission and agency", "description": "Tracks whether each participant wants the embrace and can influence or end it.", "rationale": "An observed hug does not establish agreement, and permission to begin does not settle permission to continue.", "layers": [ { "id": "invitation-and-response", "name": "Invitation and response", "description": "Records the offer of a hug and the response before contact.", "findings": [ { "id": "participant-permission", "name": "Participant permission", "description": "Attach permission evidence to each person; keep silence, stillness and lack of resistance distinct from affirmative agreement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What words or affirmative gestures indicate that each participant wants this hug now?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "participant-permission-q01" }, { "text": "If a response is unclear, how can the invitation be clarified without beginning contact?", "kind": "action", "id": "participant-permission-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuing-choice", "name": "Continuing choice", "description": "Tracks changed preferences, social pressure and practical ability to disengage.", "findings": [ { "id": "withdrawal-and-release", "name": "Withdrawal and release", "description": "Record withdrawal signals and whether the embrace permits a prompt exit.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has anyone asked to stop, pulled away or otherwise indicated that continued contact is unwanted?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "withdrawal-and-release-q01" }, { "text": "Can every participant disengage freely, and what release action is needed if someone cannot?", "kind": "action", "id": "withdrawal-and-release-q02" }, { "text": "What dependency, authority relationship or situational pressure may make refusal difficult?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "withdrawal-and-release-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-fit", "name": "Physical fit", "description": "Describes how the embrace accommodates bodies, positions and expressed contact preferences.", "rationale": "The same intended hug can involve very different contact and mobility constraints.", "layers": [ { "id": "posture-and-access", "name": "Posture and access", "description": "Records reach, stance, seating and obstacles relevant to making contact.", "findings": [ { "id": "workable-configuration", "name": "Workable configuration", "description": "Choose a configuration from participant preferences and practical reach rather than assuming a standing frontal hug.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do seating, height differences, available arm movement or mobility equipment affect the proposed embrace?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "workable-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "What orientation and arm placement would each participant prefer and be able to maintain?", "kind": "action", "id": "workable-configuration-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pressure-and-contact", "name": "Pressure and contact", "description": "Tracks compression, contact locations and reported discomfort during the hug.", "findings": [ { "id": "contact-adjustment", "name": "Contact adjustment", "description": "Separate observed contact from reported pressure and use expressed discomfort to guide adjustment or release.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which body regions are contacted or compressed, and how does each participant describe the pressure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contact-adjustment-q01" }, { "text": "Has anyone identified pain, a sensitive area, unwanted touch or another reason to loosen, reposition or end the hug?", "kind": "action", "id": "contact-adjustment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "meaning-in-context", "name": "Meaning in context", "description": "Records the occasion and each participant's interpretation without treating bodily form as a reliable statement of emotion.", "rationale": "Greeting, comfort, celebration and reconciliation can share an embrace form while carrying different expectations.", "layers": [ { "id": "occasion-and-intention", "name": "Occasion and intention", "description": "Connects the hug to its immediate social occasion and stated purpose.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-meaning", "name": "Attributed meaning", "description": "Attribute intentions and interpretations to their speakers instead of declaring a single shared meaning.", "questions": [ { "text": "What occasion prompted the hug, and what purpose does each participant state?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "Do participants understand the embrace differently, such as comfort for one and reconciliation for another?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-meaning-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-expectations", "name": "Local expectations", "description": "Identifies relevant interpersonal, institutional or ritual expectations and their limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "expectation-versus-preference", "name": "Expectation versus preference", "description": "Record evidenced local expectations while keeping them separate from an individual's willingness to be hugged.", "questions": [ { "text": "What participant account or explicit local practice supports an expectation of hugging on this occasion?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "expectation-versus-preference-q01" }, { "text": "How can someone decline or substitute another greeting or acknowledgment within this setting?", "kind": "action", "id": "expectation-versus-preference-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-course", "name": "Episode course", "description": "Follows the embrace from approach through holding and release to immediate participant reports.", "rationale": "A hug 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"distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a hug is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a hug passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a hug between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a hug, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a hug, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a hug is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a hug, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a hug is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a hug, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a hug, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a hug is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a hug proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a hug, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a hug and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a hug, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a hug, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a hug is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a hug consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a hug takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a hug, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a hug, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a hug is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What hug is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of hug are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is hug operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of hug and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of hug?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as hug?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a hug came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a hug and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a hug, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a hug, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a hug is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a hug is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a hug, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a hug, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a hug is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }