Title :
The new ontological category hypothesis in human-robot interaction
Author :
Kahn, Peter H., Jr. ; Reichert, Aimee L. ; Gary, Heather E. ; Kanda, Takayuki ; Ishiguro, Hiroshi ; Shen, Solace ; Ruckert, Jolina H. ; Gill, Brian
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Psychol., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
This paper discusses converging evidence to support the hypothesis that personified robots and other embodied personified computational systems may represent a new ontological category, where ontology refers to basic categories of being, and ways of distinguishing them.
Keywords :
human-robot interaction; ontologies (artificial intelligence); embodied personified computational systems; human-robot interaction; ontological category hypothesis; Cognition; Educational institutions; Ethics; Helium; Pediatrics; Psychology; Robots; Ontology; category membership; personified robot;
Conference_Titel :
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2011 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lausanne
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4393-0
Electronic_ISBN :
2167-2121
