scholarly journals Personogenesis Through Imitating Human Behavior in a Humanoid Robot “Alter3”

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Masumori ◽  
Norihiro Maruyama ◽  
Takashi Ikegami
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Target Motion ◽  
Switching Behavior ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Important Observation ◽  
Motion Sequence ◽  
Mimetic Behavior

In this study, we report the investigations conducted on the mimetic behavior of a new humanoid robot called Alter3. Alter3 autonomously imitates the motions of a person in front of it and stores the motion sequences in its memory. Alter3 also uses a self-simulator to simulate its own motions before executing them and generates a self-image. If the visual perception (of a person's motion being imitated) and the imitating self-image differ significantly, Alter3 retrieves a motion sequence closer to the target motion from its memory and executes it. We investigate how this mimetic behavior develops interacting with human, by analyzing memory dynamics and information flow between Alter3 and a interacting person. One important observation from this study is that when Alter3 fails to imitate a person's motion, the person tend to imitate Alter3 instead. This tendency is quantified by the alternation of the direction of information flow. This spontaneous role-switching behavior between a human and Alter3 is a way to initiate personality formation (i.e., personogenesis) in Alter3.

Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Renwick Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Holocaust

What causes genocide? Why do some stand by, doing nothing, while others risk their lives to help the persecuted? This book analyzes riveting interviews with bystanders, Nazi supporters, and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust to lay bare critical psychological forces operating during genocide. The book's examination of these moving—and disturbing—interviews underscores the significance of identity for moral choice. The book finds that self-image and identity—especially the sense of self in relation to others—determine and delineate our choice options, not just morally but cognitively. It introduces the concept of moral salience to explain how we establish a critical psychological relationship with others, classifying individuals in need as “people just like us” or reducing them to strangers perceived as different, threatening, or even beyond the boundaries of our concern. The book explicates the psychological dehumanization that is a prerequisite for genocide and uses knowledge of human behavior during the Holocaust to develop a broader theory of moral choice, one applicable to other forms of ethnic, religious, racial, and sectarian prejudice, aggression, and violence. It suggests that identity is more fundamental than reasoning in our treatment of others.

scholarly journals Reversal of cortical information flow during visual imagery as compared to visual perception

NeuroImage ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 237-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Dentico ◽  
Bing Leung Cheung ◽  
Jui-Yang Chang ◽  
Jeffrey Guokas ◽  
Melanie Boly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Visual Imagery

Active Visual Perception for Humanoid Robots

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Martín ◽  
Carlos E. Agüero ◽  
José M. Cañas
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Visual Attention ◽  
Visual Memory ◽  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Partial Information ◽  
Internal Representation ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Software Components ◽  
Perception System ◽  
Mobile Cameras

Robots detect and keep track of relevant objects in their environment to accomplish some tasks. Many of them are equipped with mobile cameras as the main sensors, process the images and maintain an internal representation of the detected objects. We propose a novel active visual memory that moves the camera to detect objects in robot's surroundings and tracks their positions. This visual memory is based on a combination of multi-modal filters that efficiently integrates partial information. The visual attention subsystem is distributed among the software components in charge of detecting relevant objects. We demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of this perception system in a real humanoid robot participating in the RoboCup SPL competition.

scholarly journals Can I get your (robot) attention? Human sensitivity to subtle hints of human-likeness in a humanoid robot’s behavior

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Ghiglino ◽  
Davide De Tommaso ◽  
Cesco Willemse ◽  
Serena Marchesi ◽  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Artificial Agents ◽  
Artificial Agent ◽  
Perceptual Cues ◽  
Human Likeness ◽  
Intentional Agents

Designing artificial agents that can closely imitate human behavior, might influence humans in perceiving them as intentional agents. Nonetheless, the factors that are crucial for an artificial agent to be perceived as an animated and anthropomorphic being still need to be addressed. In the current study, we investigated some of the factors that might affect the perception of a robot's behavior as human-like or intentional. To meet this aim, seventy-nine participants were exposed to two different behaviors of a humanoid robot under two different instructions. Before the experiment, participants' biases towards robotics as well as their personality traits were assessed. Our results suggest that participants’ sensitivity to human-likeness relies more on their expectations rather than on perceptual cues.

scholarly journals Target Motion Sequence Detection Using Hidden Markov Models

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 377-403
Author(s):  
Zhengxiang Ma ◽  
Xu Zhang ◽  
Hongchuan Wei ◽  
Shuping Dang ◽  
Rakinder Kalsi
Keyword(s):  
Hidden Markov Models ◽  
Markov Models ◽  
Hidden Markov ◽  
Target Motion ◽  
Sequence Detection ◽  
Motion Sequence

scholarly journals Kawato Dynamic Brain Project. Using a Humanoid Robot to Explore Human Behavior and Communication.

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 584-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Atkeson ◽  
Josha G. Hale ◽  
Frank Pollick ◽  
Marcia Riley
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Humanoid Robot
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