An embodied computational model of social referencing (2005)
| Venue: | In IEEE International Workshop on Human Robot Interaction |
| Citations: | 5 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Thomaz05anembodied,
author = {Andrea Lockerd Thomaz and Matt Berlin and Cynthia Breazeal},
title = {An embodied computational model of social referencing},
booktitle = {In IEEE International Workshop on Human Robot Interaction},
year = {2005}
}
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Abstract
Social referencing is the tendency to use the emotional reaction of another to help form one's own affective appraisal of a novel situation, which is then used to guide subsequent behavior. It is an important form of emotional communication and is a developmental milestone for human infants in their ability to learn about their environment through social means. In this paper, we present a biologically-inspired computational model of social referencing for our expressive, anthropomorphic robot that consists of three interacting systems: emotional empathy through facial imitation, a shared attention mechanism, and an affective memory system. This model presents opportunities for understanding how these mechanisms might interact to enable social referencing behavior in humans.
