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A neurocognitive view on the depiction of social robots.

The Behavioral and brain sciences
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...

Social robots as social learning partners: Exploring children's early understanding and learning from social robots.

The Behavioral and brain sciences
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 ...

Virtual real: Symbolic and natural experiences with social robots.

The Behavioral and brain sciences
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,...

Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many.

The Behavioral and brain sciences
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...

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...