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Can robots get “memberships” by social interaction?

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To investigate how robots behave as social entities, we analyze the interaction of humans and “Muu,” an embodied artificial entity. Specifically, our purpose is to find the salient patterns of behavior that distinguish the robot from humans in the course of an interaction. Through exploratory observations, we identify such salient patterns as the manner of repetitions and the address mismatch. We discuss how the social display of such patterns as “marked” features plays a very important role in mutual interaction.

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  1. Hiroyuki Fujii

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  1. Department of Ecological Communications, Network Informatics Laboratories, ATR, Kyoto, Japan

    Hiroyuki Fujii & Michio Okada

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Correspondence to Hiroyuki Fujii.

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This work was presented in part at the 10th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, February 4–6, 2005

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Fujii, H., Okada, M. Can robots get “memberships” by social interaction?. Artif Life Robotics 10, 77–80 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-005-0376-2

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