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HUMAN COGNITION AND SOCIAL AGENT TECHNOLOGY
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Edited by
Kerstin Dautenhahn
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.
CHAPTER TITLES AND AUTHORS:
"Introduction"
Kerstin Dautenhahn
"Narrative Intelligence"
Phoebe Sengers
"Digital Augmentation of Keepsake Objects: A Place for Interaction of
Memory, Story, and Self"
Jennifer Williamson Glos
"Children as Designers of Interactive Storytellers. Let Me Tell You a Story
about Myself..."
Marina Umaschi Bers, Justine Cassell
"Autonomous Synthetic Computer Characters as Personal Representatives"
Linda Cook, Tim Bickmore, Sara Bly, Elizabeth Churchill, Scott Prevost,
Joseph W. Sullivan
" 'Conscious' and Conceptual Learning In A Socially Situated Agent"
Myles Bogner, Uma Ramamurthy, Stan Franklin
"Emotionally Grounded Social Interaction"
Dolores Caņamero, Walter Van de Velde
"Architectural Requirements for Human-like Agents Both Natural and
Artificial. (What sorts of machines can love?)"
Aaron Sloman
"Connecting Reflection and Action - a Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Model"
Ruth Aylett, David Barnes
"The Role of Evaluation in Cognition and Social Interaction"
Maria Miceli, Cristiano Castelfranchi
"The Ontogeny of the Social Self. Towards a Formal Computational Theory"
Eric Werner
"Computational Embodiment: Agents as Constructed Complex Systems"
Christopher Landauer, Kirstie L. Bellman
"Are We Having Fun Yet? Using Social Agents in Social Domains"
Leonard N. Foner
"The Emergence of Personality: How to Create Souls from Cells"
Steve Grand
"Machine-Mediated Communication: Agents of Representation"
Bill Vorn
"Agents as Artworks and Agent Design as Artistic Practice"
Simon Penny
"Living with Socially Intelligent Agents: A Cognitive Technology View"
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Advances in Consciousness
Research Series, 19. 1999. Pb 430 pp. 90 272 5139 8 / NLG 120.00, 1 55619
435 8 / USD 59.95
For ordering information please contact the publisher
http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp/index.html
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