Tomohito Miyake
Papers
2
Total Citations
23
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2
About
Tomohito Miyake is a researcher at the forefront of human-robot interaction, specializing in the psychology of how people perceive and judge robotic agents. His work centers on the critical intersection of mind perception, anthropomorphism, and causal attribution, exploring why humans assign blame, responsibility, and even mental states to robots, particularly after a failure. In his highly cited 2019 study, Miyake investigated how people attribute the cause of a game loss to a robot, revealing a direct link between mind perception and causal reasoning. He expanded this line of inquiry in his 2023 work, demonstrating that people’s tendency to anthropomorphize robots directly influences how they assign both causal and moral responsibility for failures. With over 20 citations on these core papers alone, Miyake’s research provides foundational insights for designing more intuitive and socially acceptable autonomous systems, addressing a fundamental question in robotics: how our innate social psychology shapes our relationship with the machines we create.
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Top Papers
- 1Mind perception and causal attribution for failure in a game with a robot12 citations · 2019
- 2Anthropomorphism-based causal and responsibility attributions to robots11 citations · 2023