Paper Info
Title
An intentional framework improves memory for a robot's actions
Abstract
Although a number of recent studies have explored people's concepts about robots, almost no research has tested the degree to which these concepts affect people's capacity to understand and remember a robot's actions. In this study, we tested whether a narrative describing a robot performing basic intentional acts would be easier to remember than a narrative that described similar non-intentional actions. Participants read one of two stories about a robot in which it was either described as having intentional or non-intentional mental representations. Participants who read about the intentional robot were more likely to recall information about the robotic agent, but there was no difference between the two groups in accuracy for questions unrelated to the agent. Additionally, participants who read about the intentional robot were marginally more likely to falsely recall a non-present object that was similar to the objects that the robot did interact with. We conclude that beliefs about a robot affect encoding and recall of its actions, possibly due to a focus on the type of information the agent is believed to “mentally” represent.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2157689.2157730
Human-Robot Interaction
Keywords
Field
DocType
intentional robot,non-present object,recent study,non-intentional mental representation,basic intentional act,intentional framework,robotic agent,similar non-intentional action,explored people,memory,concepts,mental representation,psychology,robots,human robot interaction,semantics
Social robot,Computer science,Theory of mind,Cognitive psychology,Narrative,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Recall,Semantics,Human–robot interaction,Mental representation
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2167-2121 E-ISBN : 978-1-4503-1063-5
978-1-4503-1063-5
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alicia M. Hymel110.72
Daniel T. Levin2325.97