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The new ontological category hypothesis in human-robot interaction

Peter H. Kahn, Aimee L. Reichert, Heather E. Gary, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Solace Shen, Jolina H. Ruckert, Brian T. Gill

Year
2011
Citations
125

Abstract

This paper discusses converging evidence to support the hypothesis that personified robots and other embodied personified computational systems may represent a new ontological category, where ontology refers to basic categories of being, and ways of distinguishing them.

Keywords

Embodied cognitionOntologyComputer scienceRobotArtificial intelligenceCognitive scienceNatural language processingHuman–computer interactionEpistemologyPsychology

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