Obiettivo In daily social interactions, we constantly attribute mental states, such as beliefs or intentions, to other humans – to understand and predict their behaviour. Today we also routinely interact with artificial agents: from Apple’s Siri to GPS navigation systems. In the near future, we will casually interact with robots. However, since we consider artificial agents to have no mental states, we tend to not attune socially with them in the sense of activating our mechanisms of social cognition. This is because it seems pointless to socially attune to something that does not carry social meaning (mental content) under the surface of an observed behaviour. INSTANCE will break new ground in social cognition research by identifying factors that influence attribution of mental states to others and social attunement with humans or artificial agents. The objectives of INSTANCE are to (1) determine parameters of others’ behaviour that make us attribute mental states to them, (2) explore parameters relevant for social attunement, (3) elucidate further factors – culture and experience – that influence attribution of mental states to agents and, thereby social attunement. INSTANCE’s objectives are highly relevant not only for fundamental research in social cognition, but also for the applied field of social robotics, where robots are expected to become humans’ social companions. Indeed, if we do not attune socially to artificial agents viewed as mindless machines, then robots may end up not working well enough in contexts where interaction is paramount. INSTANCE’s unique approach combining cognitive neuroscience methods with real-time human-robot interaction will address the challenge of social attunement between humans and artificial agents. Subtle features of robot behaviour (e.g. timing or pattern of eye movements) will be manipulated. The impact of such features on social attunement (e.g. joint attention) will be examined with behavioural, neural and physiological measures. Campo scientifico scienze naturaliscienze biologicheneurobiologianeuroscienze cognitiveingegneria e tecnologiaingegneria elettrica, ingegneria elettronica, ingegneria informaticaingegneria elettronicaroboticarobot autonomiingegneria e tecnologiaingegneria elettrica, ingegneria elettronica, ingegneria informaticaingegneria informaticatelecomunicazionitelefoni mobiliscienze socialipsicologiapsicologia cognitivascienze socialigeografia socialetrasportisistemi di navigazione Parole chiave social neuroscience human-robot interaction social robotics Programma(i) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Argomento(i) ERC-2016-STG - ERC Starting Grant Invito a presentare proposte ERC-2016-STG Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento ERC-STG - Starting Grant Coordinatore FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA Contribution nette de l'UE € 1 499 937,00 Indirizzo Via morego 30 16163 Genova Italia Mostra sulla mappa Regione Nord-Ovest Liguria Genova Tipo di attività Research Organisations Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Partecipazione a programmi di R&I dell'UE Opens in new window Rete di collaborazione HORIZON Opens in new window Altri finanziamenti € 0,00 Beneficiari (1) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo netto dell'UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA Italia Contribution nette de l'UE € 1 499 937,00 Indirizzo Via morego 30 16163 Genova Mostra sulla mappa Regione Nord-Ovest Liguria Genova Tipo di attività Research Organisations Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Partecipazione a programmi di R&I dell'UE Opens in new window Rete di collaborazione HORIZON Opens in new window Altri finanziamenti € 0,00
