Open AccessSocial robots – emotional agents: Some remarks on naturalizing man-machine interaction
Author(s) -
Barbara Becker
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international review of information ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2563-5638
DOI - 10.29173/irie138
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , dialog box , vision , field (mathematics) , robot , human–computer interaction , cognitive science , realization (probability) , computer science , cognition , interface (matter) , embodied agent , dialog system , psychology , artificial intelligence , sociology , world wide web , neuroscience , statistics , mathematics , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , anthropology , parallel computing , pure mathematics
The construction of embodied conversational agents – robots as well as avatars – seem to be a new challenge in the field of both cognitive AI and human-computer-interface development. On the one hand, one aims at gaining new insights in the development of cognition and communication by constructing intelligent, physical instantiated artefacts. On the other hand people are driven by the idea, that humanlike mechanical dialog-partners will have a positive effect on human-machine-communication. In this contribution I put for discussion whether the visions of scientist in this field are plausible and which problems might arise by the realization of such projects.