Class: Observing

observing is a process of passive interaction in which one entity makes note of attributes of one or more entities.

URI: sio:Observing

Parents

• is_a: Interacting - interacting is a process characterized by the interaction between two or more entities.

Children

• Perception - perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to fabricate a mental representation through the process of transduction, which sensors in the body transform signals from the environment into encoded neural signals.

Referenced by Class

Attributes

Inherited from Interacting:

• hasCreator _0..1
  • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
  • Range: Entity

• hasAttribute _0..1

  • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

  • Range: Entity

  • satisfies _0..1

  • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

  • Range: Description

  • isRelatedTo _0..1
  • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
  • Range: Entity
  • hasParticipant _0..1

  • Description: has participant is a relation that describes the participation of the object in the (processual) subject.

  • Range: Entity