Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology presents state-of-the-art ideas, concepts, architectures and innovative implementations in an interdisciplinary field which links issues of human cognition with social agent technology. The book is written for readers who are curious about what human (social) cognition is, and whether and how advanced software programs or robots can become social agents. The book is suitable for students, researchers, and everyone interested in this emerging and quickly growing field, it does not require any specialist background knowledge. Topics addressed in 16 peer-reviewed chapters by researchers at the forefront of agent research include: Narrative intelligence and implementations of story-telling systems, socially situated avatars and 'conscious' software agents, cognitive architectures for socially intelligent agents, agents with emotions, design issues for interactive systems, artificial life agents, contributions to agent design from artistic practice, and a Cognitive Technology view on living with socially intelligent agents. The book addresses both software and robotic agents. The chapters are presented in an way which is accessible to a wide audience. On the one hand justice is done to the scientific and technical aspects, and on the other hand the reader will learn about pioneering technological developments which are necessary for a public discourse and critical evaluation on where social agent technology is leading us and how such a development can be shaped in order to meet the social, cultural and cognitive needs of humans.
About the Editor
List of Contributors
Introduction
Kerstin Dautenhahn
Chapter 1
Narrative Intelligence
Phoebe Sengers
Chapter 2
Digital Augmentation of Keepsake Objects: A Place for Interaction of Memory, Story, and Self
Jennifer Williamson Glos
Chapter 3
Children as Designers of Interactive Storytellers
"Let Me Tell You a Story about Myself..."
Marina Umaschi Bers, Justine Cassell
Chapter 4
Autonomous Synthetic Computer Characters as Personal Representatives
Linda Cook, Tim Bickmore, Sara Bly, Elizabeth Churchill, Scott Prevost, Joseph W. Sullivan
Chapter 5
"Conscious" and Conceptual Learning In A Socially Situated Agent
Myles Bogner, Uma Ramamurthy, Stan Franklin
Chapter 6
Emotionally Grounded Social Interaction
Dolores Cañamero, Walter Van de Velde
Chapter 7
Architectural Requirements for Human-like Agents Both Natural and Artificial. (What sorts of machines can love?)
Aaron Sloman
Chapter 8
Connecting Reflection and Action - a Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Model
Ruth Aylett, David Barnes
Chapter 9
The Role of Evaluation in Cognition and Social Interaction
Maria Miceli, Cristiano Castelfranchi
Chapter 10
The Ontogeny of the Social Self. Towards a Formal Computational Theory
Eric Werner
Chapter 11
Computational Embodiment: Agents as Constructed Complex Systems
Christopher Landauer, Kirstie L. Bellman
Chapter 12
Are We Having Fun Yet? Using Social Agents in Social Domains
Leonard N. Foner
Chapter 13
The Emergence of Personality: How to Create Souls from Cells
Steve Grand
Chapter 14
Machine-Mediated Communication: Agents of Representation
Bill Vorn
Chapter 15
Agents as Artworks and Agent Design as Artistic Practice
Simon Penny
Chapter 16
Living with Socially Intelligent Agents: A Cognitive Technology View
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Subject Index
Name Index