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,...
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
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
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 ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
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...
Contemporary clinical trials
Feb 20, 2023
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...