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The new ontological category hypothesis in human-robot interaction

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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.

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HRI '11: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction

March 2011

526 pages

ISBN:9781450305617

DOI:10.1145/1957656

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Aude Billard
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Peter Kahn
University of Washington, USA
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Vanderbilt University, USA
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