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  • Dancing robots: Social interactions are performed, not depicted

  • Guido Orgs, Emily S. Cross
  • Journal:
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 46 / 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 April 2023, e40
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  • Clark and Fischer's depiction hypothesis is based on examples of western mimetic art. Yet social robots do not depict social interactions, but instead perform them. Similarly, dance and performance art do not rely on depiction. Kinematics and expressivity are better predictors of dance aesthetics and of effective social interactions. In this way, social robots are more like dancers than actors.

  • Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many

  • Nathan Caruana, Emily S. Cross
  • Journal:
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 46 / 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 April 2023, e26
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  • Clark and Fischer's dismissal of extant human–robot interaction research approaches limits opportunities to understand major variables shaping people's engagement with social robots. Instead, this endeavour categorically requires multidisciplinary approaches. We refute the assumption that people cannot (correctly or incorrectly) represent robots as autonomous social agents. This contradicts available empirical evidence, and will become increasingly tenuous as robot automation improves.

  • 26 - The Impact of Action Expertise on Shared Representations

  • from Part V - Learning and Development
  • Edited by Sukhvinder S. Obhi, McMaster University, Ontario, Emily S. Cross, Bangor University
  • Book:
    Shared Representations
    Published online:
    27 October 2016
    Print publication:
    17 November 2016, pp 541-562

  • Summary

    Abstract

    Expertise in the motor domain is something we recognize almost instantaneously in other people, whether a gymnast performing a double layout with a twist, a basketball player slam dunking the ball, a Super-G skier descending a steep course at 80 mph, or a dancer executing 11 consecutive spins on one leg without stopping. While we might be able to readily recognize expertise in others, the degree to which action experts can coordinate or move their bodies in profoundly different ways to non-experts raises intriguing questions for those interested in shared representations between self and other in our social world. Namely, how does an observer’s ability to embody an action impact how she perceives that action, and how might perception change as further experience with the observed action is acquired? In this chapter, we address these questions by considering empirical research that explores the relationship between an actor and an observer’s motor abilities, and how expertise impacts this relationship.

Shared Representations
  • Sensorimotor Foundations of Social Life
  • Edited by Sukhvinder S. Obhi, Emily S. Cross
  • Published online:
    27 October 2016
    Print publication:
    17 November 2016
  • Socially situated thought and behaviour are pervasive and vitally important in human society. The social brain has become a focus of study for researchers in the neurosciences, psychology, biology and other areas of behavioural science, and it is becoming increasingly clear that social behaviour is heavily dependent on shared representations. Any social activity, from a simple conversation to a well-drilled military exercise to an exquisitely perfected dance routine, involves information sharing between the brains of those involved. This volume comprises a collection of cutting-edge essays centred on the idea of shared representations, broadly defined. Featuring contributions from established world leaders in their fields and written in a simultaneously accessible and detailed style, this is an invaluable resource for established researchers and those who are new to the field.

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