Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots?

Frontiers in Psychology

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Serena Marchesi¹  Davide Ghiglino¹  Francesca Ciardo¹  Jairo Perez-Osorio¹  Ebru Baykara¹  Agnieszka Wykowska¹ 

[1] Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction Unit, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia;School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester University, United Kingdom;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Genova

关键词: social cognition;    intentional stance;    human–robot interaction;    mentalizing;    mental states;    humanoid robots;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00450

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In daily social interactions, we need to be able to navigate efficiently through our social environment. According to Dennett (1971) , explaining and predicting others’ behavior with reference to mental states (adopting the intentional stance ) allows efficient social interaction. Today we also routinely interact with artificial agents: from Apple’s Siri to GPS navigation systems. In the near future, we might start casually interacting with robots. This paper addresses the question of whether adopting the intentional stance can also occur with respect to artificial agents. We propose a new tool to explore if people adopt the intentional stance toward an artificial agent (humanoid robot). The tool consists in a questionnaire that probes participants’ stance by requiring them to choose the likelihood of an explanation (mentalistic vs. mechanistic) of a behavior of a robot iCub depicted in a naturalistic scenario (a sequence of photographs). The results of the first study conducted with this questionnaire showed that although the explanations were somewhat biased toward the mechanistic stance, a substantial number of mentalistic explanations were also given. This suggests that it is possible to induce adoption of the intentional stance toward artificial agents, at least in some contexts.

【 授权许可】

CC BY