embodied representations
「具身表征」，指用手势或身体动作把抽象问题或概念外化呈现出来的过程；与具身认知（embodied cognition）一脉相承，被交互设计用来论证空中手势操控虚拟对象的合理性。
English Definition
"Physical, gestural enactments that stand in for abstract concepts or problem structures, grounding cognition in the body; in interaction design, they justify using real-world motion to manipulate virtual objects."
用法说明 · 针对中文母语者
embodied 是 HCI/Interaction Design 高频词，常见搭配 embodied interaction、embodied cognition、embodied representations。
真实用例 · 2 条
"Non-communicative gesturing, in the meantime, can assist with problem-solving [30] and learning as these gestures can produce embodied representations of problems and concepts [45]."
"These gestures may therefore be good candidates for manipulating virtual objects in mid-air gestural interfaces, and accordingly we use this justification for some of the gestural vocabulary defined below in Section 3.2."