Reading a Robot's Mind: A Model of Utterance Understanding Based on the Theory of Mind Mechanism
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to construct a methodology for smooth communications between humans and robots. Here, focus is on a mindread-ing mechanism, which is indispensable in human-human communications. We propose a model of utterance understanding based on this mech-anism. Concretely speaking, we apply the model of a mindreading system (Baron-Cohen 1996) to a model of human-robot communications. More-over, we implement a robot interface system that applies our proposed model. Psychological exper-iments were carried out to explore the validity of the following hypothesis: by reading a robot’s mind, a human can estimate the robot’s intention with ease, and, moreover, the person can even un-derstand the robot’s unclear utterances made by synthesized speech sounds. The results of the ex-periments statistically supported our hypothesis.
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Ono and Imai. "Reading a Robot's Mind: A Model of Utterance Understanding Based on the Theory of Mind Mechanism." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2000. doi:10.1163/156855300741609Markdown
[Ono and Imai. "Reading a Robot's Mind: A Model of Utterance Understanding Based on the Theory of Mind Mechanism." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2000.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2000/ono2000aaai-reading/) doi:10.1163/156855300741609BibTeX
@inproceedings{ono2000aaai-reading,
title = {{Reading a Robot's Mind: A Model of Utterance Understanding Based on the Theory of Mind Mechanism}},
author = {Ono, Tetsuo and Imai, Michita},
booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2000},
pages = {142-148},
doi = {10.1163/156855300741609},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2000/ono2000aaai-reading/}
}