An embodied computational model of social referencing

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...

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Main Authors: Thomaz, A.L., Berlin, M., Breazeal, C.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropomorphism
Appraisal
Biological system modeling
Biology computing
Computational modeling
Context modeling
Embedded computing
Human robot interaction
Pediatrics
Uncertainty
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1944-9445
1944-9437
DOI:10.1109/ROMAN.2005.1513844