On depicting social agents

Herbert H Clark¹, Kerstin Fischer²

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¹ Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2130, USA clark@stanford.edu; web.stanford.edu/~clark/.
² Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, DK-6400 Sonderborg, Denmark kerstin@sdu.dk; www.sdu.dk/ansat/kerstin.

PMID: 37017069
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X22002825

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On depicting social agents

Herbert H Clark et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2023.

. 2023 Apr 5:46:e51.

doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22002825.

Authors

Herbert H Clark¹, Kerstin Fischer²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2130, USA clark@stanford.edu; web.stanford.edu/~clark/.
² Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, DK-6400 Sonderborg, Denmark kerstin@sdu.dk; www.sdu.dk/ansat/kerstin.

PMID: 37017069
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X22002825

Abstract

We take up issues raised in the commentaries about our proposal that social robots are depictions of social agents. Among these issues are the realism of social agents, experiencing robots, communicating with robots, anthropomorphism, and attributing traits to robots. We end with comments about the future of social robots.

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