umwelt

British  

/ ˈʊmvɛlt /

noun

1. the environmental factors, collectively, that are capable of affecting the behaviour of an animal or individual

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Etymology

Origin of umwelt

C20: from German Umwelt environment

Example Sentences

Umwelt is a German term describing the perspective of an organism based on its sensory abilities, environment and anything else that contributes to its overall consciousness — the way fish must perceive water much differently than birds or how a bumblebee can see ultraviolet light but we can’t.

From Salon

AI can find correlations between audio, video, chemical analysis, or any other kind of measurements that may create a sperm whale’s umwelt, which Whitehead agreed can be expected to lead to exciting new discoveries.

From Salon

The users agreed that Umwelt could help them communicate about data more easily with sighted colleagues.

From Science Daily

Umwelt, an authoring environment designed for screen-reader users, incorporates an editor that allows someone to upload a dataset and create a customized representation, such as a scatterplot, that can include three modalities: visualization, textual description, and sonification.

From Science Daily

The researchers conducted a study with five expert screen-reader users who found Umwelt to be useful and easy to learn.

From Science Daily