ArticleInternational journal of social robotics2020
Social Robots to Test Flexibility of Human Social Cognition.
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- Toward an Attentive Robotic Architecture: Learning-Based Mutual Gaze Estimation in Human-Robot Interaction.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2022Article
- Robot's Social Gaze Affects Conflict Resolution but not Conflict Adaptations.Journal of cognition · 2022Article
- I Am Looking for Your Mind: Pupil Dilation Predicts Individual Differences in Sensitivity to Hints of Human-Likeness in Robot Behavior.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2021Article
- Comparison of Human Social Brain Activity During Eye-Contact With Another Human and a Humanoid Robot.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2020Article
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Abstract
As the field of social robotics has been dynamically growing and expanding over various areas of research and application, in which robots can be of assistance and companionship for humans, this paper offers a different perspective on a role that social robots can also play, namely the role of informing us about flexibility of human mechanisms of social cognition. The paper focuses on studies in which robots have been used as a new type of "stimuli" in psychological experiments to examine whether similar mechanisms of social cognition would be activated in interaction with a robot, as would be elicited in interaction with another human. Analysing studies in which a direct comparison has been made between a robot and a human agent, the paper examines whether for robot agents, the brain re-uses the same mechanisms that have been developed for interaction with other humans in terms of perception, action representation, attention and higher-order social cognition. Based on this analysis, the paper concludes that the human socio-cognitive mechanisms, in adult brains, are sufficiently flexible to be re-used for robotic agents, at least for those that have some level of resemblance to humans.
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