The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
The target article proposes that people perceive social robots as depictions rather than as genuine social agents. We suggest that people might instead view social robots as social agents, albeit agents with more restricted capacities and moral right...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Clark and Fischer propose that people interpret social robots not as social agents, but as interactive depictions. Drawing on research focusing on how children selectively learn from social others, we argue that children do not view social robots as ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Drawing from two strands of ecological psychology, we suggest that even if social robots are interactive depictions, people need not mentally represent them as such. Rather, people can engage with the opportunities for action or affordances that soci...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Interactions with social robots are guided by the pretense that robots depict real people. But they can also be that are direct, automatic, and independent of any thoughtful mapping between what is real and depicted. Both experiences are important,...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Clark and Fischer's dismissal of extant human-robot interaction research approaches limits opportunities to understand major variables shaping people's engagement with social robots. Instead, this endeavour categorically requires multidisciplinary ap...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Clark and Fischer's depiction hypothesis is based on examples of western mimetic art. Yet social robots do not depict social interactions, but instead perform them. Similarly, dance and performance art do not rely on depiction. Kinematics and express...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Clark and Fischer argue that humans treat social artifacts as depictions. In contrast, theories of distributed cognition suggest that there is no clear line separating artifacts from agents, and artifacts can possess agency. The difference is likely ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
There are reasons to suspect that meta-cognition about construing social robots as depictions would be more difficult - or absent - than Clark and Fischer discuss. Self-reports about the cognitive processes involved might therefore tend to be incompl...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
We question the role given to depiction in Clark and Fischer's account of interaction with social robots. Specifically, we argue that positing a unique cognitive process for handling depiction is evolutionarily implausible and empirically redundant b...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Do people hold robots responsible for their actions? While Clark and Fischer present a useful framework for interpreting social robots, we argue that they fail to account for people's willingness to assign responsibility to robots in certain contexts...