Presentation 2017-01-27
Cognitive development of children about robot's behavior before and after entering school
Yuto Imamura, Kazunori Terada, Hideyuki Takahashi, Irini Giannopulu,
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Abstract(in English) Humans use two distinct cognitive strategies separately to understand and predict agents' behavior. One is mind-reading, in which an abstract intervening variable is assumed to be a source of a variety of behaviors. The other is behavior-reading, in which an actor’s superficial behavior is modeled based on a finite set of state-action (stimulus-response) associations. We conducted an experiment to investigate how cognitive capabilities of mind-reading and behavior-reading that are used when understanding robot's behavior develop. The result shows that 7-8 years children understood one-to-one relationship between switch and robot's action faster than 4-5 years children, indicating that the cognitive capability of behavior-reading to robots develops according to age. The results also shows that whereas 4-5 years children understood one-to-many (goal-directed) relationship between switch and robot's action, 7-8 years children did not understand the relationship, indicating that the cognitive capability of mind-reading to robots disappear along with the development. Our findings suggest that logical interpretation of agents' behavior overwhelms teleological interpretation of agent's behavior along with the development.
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Keyword(in English) mind-reading / behavior-reading / cognitive development / robot / intention
Paper # HCS2016-70
Date of Issue 2017-01-20 (HCS)

Conference Information
Committee HCS
Conference Date 2017/1/27(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Namiki Square
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Psychology and Life-stage of Communication, etc.
Chair Yukiko Nakano(Seikei Univ.)
Vice Chair Nobuyuki Watanabe(Kanazawa Inst. of Tech.) / Tomoo Inoue(Univ. of Tsukuba)
Secretary Nobuyuki Watanabe(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Tomoo Inoue(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.)
Assistant Ryo Ishii(NTT) / Kazuki Takashima(Tohoku Univ.) / Ken Fujiwara(Osaka Univ. of Economic)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Human Communication Science
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Cognitive development of children about robot's behavior before and after entering school
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) mind-reading
Keyword(2) behavior-reading
Keyword(3) cognitive development
Keyword(4) robot
Keyword(5) intention
1st Author's Name Yuto Imamura
1st Author's Affiliation Gifu University(Gifu Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Kazunori Terada
2nd Author's Affiliation Gifu University(Gifu Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Hideyuki Takahashi
3rd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
4th Author's Name Irini Giannopulu
4th Author's Affiliation IHU-A-ICM Prisme-Pierre & Marie Curie University(IHU-A-ICM & Marie Curie Univ.)
Date 2017-01-27
Paper # HCS2016-70
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) HCS-436
Page pp.pp.65-70(HCS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-01-20 (HCS)