Embodied artificial agents for understanding human social cognition.
Embodied artificial agents for understanding human social cognition.
复制标题
DOI：
10.1098/rstb.2015.0375
复制
发表时间：
2016-05-05
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Cheng G
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Wykowska A;Chaminade T;Cheng G
在本文中，我们提出，实验协议涉及人工代理，特别是体现人形机器人，提供了深刻的信息，在人类大脑中的社会认知机制。使用人工代理允许操纵和控制的各种参数的行为，外观和表现力的一个互动伙伴（人工代理），并检查这些参数对其他互动伙伴（人）的影响。与此同时，使用人工代理意味着将人工的存在引入人类社会领域。这允许以受控但生态有效的方式测试人类在行为和神经水平上的社会认知基本机制。本文将回顾现有的文献报告中，人工体现代理已被用于研究社会认知的研究，并将解决的问题，是否各种机制的社会认知（范围从较低到高阶的认知过程）引起的人工代理的自然代理，特别是人类的相同程度。增加对社会认知的行为和神经机制如何响应人工拟人化代理的理解，为“什么是社会代理”这个难题提供了经验答案。
In this paper, we propose that experimental protocols involving artificial agents, in particular the embodied humanoid robots, provide insightful information regarding social cognitive mechanisms in the human brain. Using artificial agents allows for manipulation and control of various parameters of behaviour, appearance and expressiveness in one of the interaction partners (the artificial agent), and for examining effect of these parameters on the other interaction partner (the human). At the same time, using artificial agents means introducing the presence of artificial, yet human-like, systems into the human social sphere. This allows for testing in a controlled, but ecologically valid, manner human fundamental mechanisms of social cognition both at the behavioural and at the neural level. This paper will review existing literature that reports studies in which artificial embodied agents have been used to study social cognition and will address the question of whether various mechanisms of social cognition (ranging from lower- to higher-order cognitive processes) are evoked by artificial agents to the same extent as by natural agents, humans in particular. Increasing the understanding of how behavioural and neural mechanisms of social cognition respond to artificial anthropomorphic agents provides empirical answers to the conundrum ‘What is a social agent?’