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On depicting social agents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2023

Herbert H. Clark Open the ORCID record for Herbert H. Clark [Opens in a new window]  and
Kerstin Fischer Open the ORCID record for Kerstin Fischer [Opens in a new window]
Herbert H. Clark
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2130, USA clark@stanford.edu; web.stanford.edu/~clark/
Kerstin Fischer
Affiliation:
Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, DK-6400 Sonderborg, Denmark kerstin@sdu.dk; www.sdu.dk/ansat/kerstin
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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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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e51
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