Human cognition and social agent technology

✍ Scribed by Dautenhahn, Kerstin

Publisher: John Benjamins
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 473
Series: Advances in consciousness research 19.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology is written for readers who are curious about what human (social) cognition is, and whether and how advanced software programs or robots can become social agents. Topics addressed in 16 peer-reviewed chapters by researchers at the forefront of agent research include: Narrative intelligence and implementations of story-telling systems, socially situated avatars and Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Narrative intelligence / Phoebe Sengers --
Digital augmentation of keepsake objects : a place for interaction of memory, story, and self / Jennifer Williamson Glos --
Children as designers of interactive storytellers : "Let me tell you a story about myself ..." / Marina Umaschi Bers, Justine Cassell --
Autonomous synthetic computer characters as personal representatives / Linda Cook [and others] --
"Conscious" and conceptual learning in a socially situated agent / Myles Bogner, Uma Ramamurthy, Stan Franklin --
Emotionally grounded social interaction / Dolores Cañamero, Walter Van de Velde --
Architectural requirements for human-like agents both natural and artificial : what sorts of machines can love? / Aaron Sloman --
Connecting reflection and action : a heterogeneous multi-agent model / Ruth Aylett, David Barnes --
The role of evaluation in cognition and social interaction / Maria Miceli, Cristiano Castelfranchi --
The ontogeny of the social self : towards a formal computational theory / Eric Werner --
Computational embodiment : agents as constructed complex systems / Christopher Landauer, Kirstie L. Bellman --
Are we having fun yet? Using social agents in social domains / Leonard N. Foner --
The emergence of personality : how to create souls from cells / Steve Grand --
Machine-mediated communication : agents of representation / Bill Vorn --
Agents as artworks and agent design as artistic practice / Simon Penny --
Living with socially intelligent agents : a cognitive technology view / Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv.

✦ Subjects

Cognition Learning Psychology of Socialization Artificial intelligence Technology Psychological aspects Apprentissage Psychologie de l Socialisation Intelligence artificielle Technologie Aspect psychologique

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