The role of agent behavior in mentalistic attributions by observers

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 723-728

  Johnson, Susan C ^a   Ma, Erica ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaze following; Goal directedness; Infancy; Mentalistic attributions; Perception; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MORPHOLOGY; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

GAZE-FOLLOWING; GOAL-DIRECTEDNESS; INFANCY; MENTALISTIC ATTRIBUTIONS; THEORY OF MIND;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 33746657637     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2005.1513865     Document Type: Conference Paper

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