Title
A transition model for cognitions about agency
Abstract
Recent research in a range of fields has explored people's concepts about agency, and this issue is clearly important for understanding the conceptual basis of human-robot interaction. This research takes a wide range of approaches, but no systematic model of reasoning about agency has combined the concepts and processes involved agency-reasoning comprehensively enough to support research exploring issues such as conceptual change in reasoning about agents, and the interaction between concepts about agents and visual attention. Our goal in this paper is to develop a transition model of reasoning about agency that achieves three important goals. First, we aim to specify the different kinds of knowledge that is likely to be accessed when people reason about agents. Second, we specify the circumstances under which these different kinds of knowledge might be accessed and be changed. Finally, we discuss how this knowledge might affect basic psychological processes of attention and memory. Our approach will be to first describe the transition model, then to discuss how it might be applied in two specific domains: computer interfaces that allow a single operator to track multiple robots, and a teachable agent system currently in use assisting primary and middle school students in learning natural science concepts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/HRI.2013.6483612
HRI
Keywords
Field
DocType
important goal,transition model,systematic model,people reason,conceptual basis,human-robot interaction,conceptual change,different kind,explored people,recent research,educational robots,human robot interaction,concepts,psychology,cognition,teaching,switches
Computer science,Theory of mind,Visual attention,Human–computer interaction,Operator (computer programming),Cognition,Educational robotics,Robot,Conceptual change,Human–robot interaction
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2167-2121
978-1-4673-3055-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel T. Levin1325.97
Julie A. Adams239253.75
Megan M. Saylor3165.23
Gautam Biswas41594233.43