Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
May 9, 2023
Social robots hold promise in augmenting education, rehabilitative care, and leisure activities for children. Despite findings suggesting various benefits of social robot use in schools, clinics, and homes, stakeholders have voiced concerns about the...
Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
Apr 25, 2023
BACKGROUND: Pain is a common problem but often undiagnosed and untreated in people with dementia.
Journal of experimental child psychology
Apr 15, 2023
The "video deficit" is a well-documented effect whereby children learn less well about information delivered via a screen than the same information delivered in person. Research suggests that increasing social contingency may ameliorate this video de...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Why is it that people simultaneously treat social robots as mere designed artefacts, yet show willingness to interact with them as if they were real agents? Here, we argue that Dennett's distinction between the intentional stance and the design stanc...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
The authors at times propose that robots mere depictions of social agents (a philosophical claim) and at other times that social robots as depictions (an empirical psychological claim). We evaluate each claim's accuracy both now and in the future a...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
In the target article, Clark and Fischer argue that little is known about children's perceptions of social robots. By reviewing the existing literature we demonstrate that infants and young children interact with robots in the same ways they do with ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
When people interact with social robots, they treat them as real social agents. How people depict robots is fun to consider, but when people are confronted with embodied entities that move and talk - whether humans or robots - they interact with them...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
While we applaud the careful breakdown by Clark and Fischer of the representation of social robots held by the human user, we emphasise that a neurocognitive perspective is crucial to fully capture how people perceive and construe social robots at th...
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
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,...