On depicting social agents.

Journal: The Behavioral and brain sciences
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Abstract

We take up issues raised in the commentaries about our proposal that social robots are depictions of social agents. Among these issues are the realism of social agents, experiencing robots, communicating with robots, anthropomorphism, and attributing traits to robots. We end with comments about the future of social robots.

Authors

  • Herbert H Clark
    Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2130, USA clark@stanford.edu; web.stanford.edu/~clark/.
  • Kerstin Fischer
    Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, DK-6400 Sonderborg, Denmark kerstin@sdu.dk; www.sdu.dk/ansat/kerstin.