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"Who's there?": Depicting identity in interaction.
Patrick G T Healey1, Christine Howes2, Ruth Kempson3
1School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK p.healey@qmul.ac.uk m.purver@qmul.ac.uk j.hough@qmul.ac.ukhttp://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk.
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|April 5, 2023
Summary
Social robots and humans both have limited social skills. This study suggests social roles emerge from managing these limitations in interactions.
Area of Science:
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Social Robotics
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- Social robots possess limited social competences, often leading to their perception as mere representations of social agents.
- Human social competences are also inherently limited, influencing social dynamics and perceptions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a novel framework for understanding social interaction.
- To re-examine the nature of social roles and their origins in social interaction.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of social interaction.
- Theoretical argumentation regarding social competence and role depiction.
Main Results:
- Social interaction is fundamentally characterized by the depiction of social roles.
- These social roles originate from and are defined by their function in explaining social competence failures.
Conclusions:
- Social roles are not inherent qualities but functional constructs arising from managing social limitations.
- This perspective reframes our understanding of social interaction, applicable to both human-human and human-robot contexts.
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