Humans are Well Tuned to Detecting Agents Among Non-agents: Examining the Sensitivity of Human Perception to Behavioral Characteristics of Intentional Systems

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 767-781

  Wykowska, Agnieszka ^a,b   Kajopoulos, Jasmin ^a   Obando Leitón, Miguel ^a   Chauhan, Sushil Singh ^c   Cabibihan, John John ^d   Cheng, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d Qatar University   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Agency; Human robot interaction; Pointing; Spatial cueing; Turing test

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; LOCATION; SOCIAL ROBOTS; WIRE POINTING;

AGENCY; BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS; HUMAN PERCEPTUAL SYSTEM; ROBOT INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SPATIAL CUEING; TARGET DISCRIMINATION; TURING TESTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84947073806     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-015-0299-6     Document Type: Article

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