Towards an imperfect robot for long-term companionship: Case studies using cognitive biases

M. Biswas; J. C. Murray

doi:10.1109/IROS.2015.7354228

Towards an imperfect robot for long-term companionship: Case studies using cognitive biases

M. Biswas, J. C. Murray

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Abstract

The research presented in this paper aims to find out what affect cognitive biases play in a robot's interactive behaviour for the goal of developing human-robot long-term companionship. It is expected that by utilising cognitive biases in a robot's interactive behaviours, making the robot cognitively imperfect, will affect how people relate to the robot thereby changing the process of long-term companionship. Previous research carried out in this area based on human-like cognitive characteristics in robots to create and maintain long-term relationship between robots and humans have yet to focus on developing human-like cognitive biases and as such is new to this application in robotics. To start working with cognitive biases 'misattribution' and 'empathic gap' have been selected which have been shown to be very common biases in humans and as such play a role on human-human interactions and long-term relationships.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	5978-5983
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479999941
ISBN (Print)	9781479999934
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2015.7354228
Publication status	Published - 17 Dec 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2015 - Congress Center, Hamburg, Germany Duration: 28 Sept 2015 → 2 Oct 2015 https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/ras/conf/financiallycosponsored/IROS/2015/iros2015.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/index.html https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=33365 (Link to Conference Website )

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Publisher	IEEE
Volume	2015-December
ISSN (Print)	2153-0858
ISSN (Electronic)	2153-0866

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Conference	IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2015
Abbreviated title	IROS 2015
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	28/09/15 → 2/10/15
Internet address	https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/ras/conf/financiallycosponsored/IROS/2015/iros2015.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/index.html https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=33365 (Link to Conference Website )

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Biswas, M., & Murray, J. C. (2015). Towards an imperfect robot for long-term companionship: Case studies using cognitive biases. In 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 5978-5983). Article 7354228 (IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems; Vol. 2015-December). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2015.7354228

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Biswas, M & Murray, JC 2015, Towards an imperfect robot for long-term companionship: Case studies using cognitive biases. in 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)., 7354228, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, vol. 2015-December, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 5978-5983, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2015, Hamburg, Germany, 28/09/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2015.7354228

Towards an imperfect robot for long-term companionship: Case studies using cognitive biases. / Biswas, M.; Murray, J. C.
2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 5978-5983 7354228 (IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems; Vol. 2015-December).

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Biswas M, Murray JC. Towards an imperfect robot for long-term companionship: Case studies using cognitive biases. In 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2015. p. 5978-5983. 7354228. (IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems). doi: 10.1109/IROS.2015.7354228

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