AIMC Topic: Social Interaction

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Dancing robots: Social interactions are performed, not depicted.

The Behavioral and brain sciences
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...

Meta-cognition about social robots could be difficult, making self-reports about some cognitive processes less useful.

The Behavioral and brain sciences
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...

Anthropomorphism, not depiction, explains interaction with social robots.

The Behavioral and brain sciences
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...

When Pinocchio becomes a real boy: Capability and felicity in AI and interactive depictions.

The Behavioral and brain sciences
Clark and Fischer analyze social robots as depictions, presenting characters that people can interact with in social settings. Unlike other types of depictions, the props for social robot depictions depend on emerging interactive technologies. This ...

Fictional emotions and emotional reactions to social robots as depictions of social agents.

The Behavioral and brain sciences
Following the depiction theory by Clark and Fischer we would expect people interacting with robots to experience emotions akin to those toward films or novels. However, some people's emotional reactions toward robots display the motivational force t...

A relational agent for treating substance use in adults: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial with a psychoeducational comparator.

Contemporary clinical trials
BACKGROUND: Substance use disorders (SUDs) are prevalent and compromise health and wellbeing. Scalable solutions, such as digital therapeutics, may offer a population-based strategy for addressing SUDs. Two formative studies supported the feasibility...

Robot leadership-Investigating human perceptions and reactions towards social robots showing leadership behaviors.

PloS one
Human-robot interaction research has shown that social robots can interact with humans in complex social situations and display leadership-related behaviors. Therefore, social robots could be able to take on leadership roles. The aim of our study was...

A robot is watching me!: Five-year-old children care about their reputation after interaction with a social robot.

Child development
Since robots are becoming involved in children's lives, it is urgent to determine how children perceive robots. The present study assessed whether Japanese 5-year-olds care about their reputation when interacting with a social robot. Children were gi...

Effects of a cognitive-based intervention program using social robot PIO on cognitive function, depression, loneliness, and quality of life of older adults living alone.

Frontiers in public health
OBJECTIVE: Social robot interventions are being implemented to reduce cognitive decline, depression, and loneliness among older adults. However, the types, functions, and programs of effective social robots have not yet been confirmed. This study inv...

Towards a simultaneously speaking bilingual robot: Primary study on the effect of gender and pitch of the robot's voice.

PloS one
With fast and reliable international transportation, more people with different language backgrounds can interact now. As a result, the need for communicative agents fluent in several languages to assist those people is highlighted. The high cost of ...