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Whether or not humans can construe the behaviors of entities depends on their psychological stance. The philosopher Dennett proposed human cognitive strategies (three stances) in which humans construe the behavior of other animated objects, including other humans, artifacts, and physical phenomena:‘intentional’, ‘design’ and ‘physical’ stances. Detecting the psychological stance taken toward entities is difficult, because such mental state attribution is a subjective cognitive process and hard to measure. In the present study, we proposed a novel method for detecting underlying stance adopted when human construe behavior of entities. In our method the subject was asked to select the most suitable action sequence shown in three movies each of which representing Dennett’s three stances. To valid our method we have conducted an experiment in which the subjects were presented thirty short videos and asked to compare them to the three movies. The result indicated that the subjects did not focused on prior knowledge about the entity but could focused on motion characteristics per se, owing to simple and typical motion of an abstract shaped object.
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Terada, K., Ono, K., Ito, A. (2009). Detecting Underlying Stance Adopted When Human Construe Behavior of Entities. In: Kim, JH., et al. Advances in Robotics. FIRA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03983-6_5
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