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Embodied Cognition & Interaction2021VT
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Course plan
No of lectures
5-7 seminars (exact number depends on number of participants)
Recommended for
The course is mainly intended for cognitive science PhD students, but could also be interesting for PhD students in design or computer science with a focus on human-computer interaction or artificial intelligence. The course could also be relevant for PhD students in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy or other areas overlapping with the cognitive sciences.
The course was last given
Similar courses were given in 2016 and 2018 (then called "Current research issues in embodied, situated and distributed cogniton"). The course has also been given, in slightly different form, as a masters course autumn 2020 (then called "Kroppsbaserad, situerad och distribuerad kognition).
Goals
The main goal is to familiarize students with current research issues in embodied cognition and social interaction, as well as the relevance of such research to human interaction with different types of technology.
Prerequisites
Some background in cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and/or artificial intelligence.
Organization
The course mainly consists of student presentations and seminars discussing recent research articles.
Contents
See above.
Literature
Current research articles. A preliminary list (not 100% complete):
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SEMINAR 1 - ANTHROPOMORPHISM
Waytz et al (2014). The mind in the machine: Anthropomorphism increases trust
in an autonomous vehicle. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 52:
113-117.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103114000067
Urquiza-Haas & Kotrscha (2015). The mind behind anthropomorphic thinking:
Attribution of mental states. Animal Behavior, 109: 167-176
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347215003085
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281979471_The_mind_behind_anthropomorphic_thinking_Attribution_of_mental_states_to_other_species
Damiano & Dumouchel (2018). Anthropomorphism in human–robot co-evolution.
Front. Psychol. 9, 468 (2018).
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00468/full
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SEMINAR 2 - LANGUAGE, ACTION & SOCIAL INTERACTION
Glenberg & Gallese (2012). Action-based language: A theory of language
acquisition, comprehension, and production. 48(7): 905-922.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945211001055
Gallese, V. & Cuccio, V. (2015). The Paradigmatic Body - Embodied Simulation,
Intersubjectivity, the Bodily Self, and Language.In T. Metzinger & J. M. Windt
(Eds). Open MIND: 14(T). Frankfurt am Main: MIND Group.
https://open-mind.net/DOI?isbn=9783958570269
De Stefani E and De Marco D (2019) Language, Gesture, and Emotional
Communication: An Embodied View of Social Interaction. Front. Psychol. 10:2063.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02063/full
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SEMINAR 3 - EMBODIMENT, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIAL INTERACTION
Li (2015). The benefit of being physically present: A survey of experimental
works comparing copresent robots, telepresent robots and virtual agents.
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 77: 23-37.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107158191500004X
Paiva et al (2017). Empathy in Virtual Agents and Robots: A Survey. ACM
Transactions on Interactive Intelligen Systems. September 2017, Article 11.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2912150
Belpaeme et al (2018). Social robots for education: A review. Science Robotics,
3(21), eaat5954.
https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/3/21/eaat5954
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327046544_Social_robots_for_education_A_review
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SEMINAR 4 - EMBODIMENT, TECHNOLOGY & HEALTH
Geva et al (2020). Touching the social robot PARO reduces pain perception and
salivary oxytocin levels. Scientific Reports, 10:9814.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66982-y
Thunberg & Ziemke (2020). Do Robot Pets Decrease Agitation in Dementia
Patients? In: International Conference on Social Robotics.
Scoglio et al (2019). Use of Social Robots in Mental Health and Well-Being
Research: Systematic Review. J Med Internet Res 2019;21(7):e13322.
https://www.jmir.org/2019/7/e13322/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334664525_Use_of_Social_Robots_in_Mental_Health_and_Well-Being_Research_Systematic_Review
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Lecturers
Tom Ziemke
Examiner
Tom Ziemke
Examination
Mandatory student presentations, active participation in seminar discussions, and coursework.
Credit
6 hp
Comments
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