2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Analysing and modeling of behaviors in human-animal interaction
Project Area | Cognitive Interaction Design: A Model-Based Understanding of Communication and its Application to Artifact Design |
Project/Area Number |
26118004
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Review Section |
Complex systems
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Research Institution | Tamagawa University |
Principal Investigator |
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
瀧本 彩加 北海道大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (40726832)
澤 幸祐 専修大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (60407682)
永澤 美保 麻布大学, 獣医学部, 講師 (70533082)
村井 千寿子 精華女子短期大学, その他部局等, 講師 (90536830)
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Research Collaborator |
KIKUSUI takehumi
SHIMADA masaki
OKITA midori
UENO masataka
NISHIYAMA keita
MURAI chizuko
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Project Period (FY) |
2014-07-10 – 2019-03-31
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Keywords | 認知科学 / 比較認知科学 / 動物心理学 / 社会性 / 伴侶動物 / インタラクション / 相互学習 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The foundation of human social intelligence lies in the ability to recognize others and to cooperate with others.Animals such as dogs and horses that live in cooperation with humans have not only been used as human-service animals, but also domesticated as companion animals that form social bond with humans. In this project, we conducted several lines of studies that investigate roles of various type of social signals exchanged between human and animals as non-verbal communications. As a result of studies indicated that these animals could recognize the emotional and cognitive states of humans through social signals, especially facial expression and gaze directions. These recognition abilities from the social signals were learned not only as the simple operant behavior but also as communicative signals through the interactive learning, in which both animals and humans learned each social signal interactively.
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Free Research Field |
認知科学 動物心理学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
人がなぜ他者の立場や感情を理解し,協力し,社会を構成し,規範に従って行動するのかは,社会科学分野の根源的疑問である.人と動物の間では言語に頼らない社会的シグナルを通じて他者を理解し,協力する。本研究の成果は,人と動物の間でのコミュニケーションの基盤である社会的シグナルの性質の一部を明らかにした.他種とのコミュニケーションを可能にする種共通のシグナルを調べることで,社会性の進化的基盤にせまる比較認知科学や,人の社会行動をアルゴリズムとして理解する認知科学,人と人工エージェントとの円滑な情報共有や協力を可能にする人-機械インターフェイス工学などの多くの領域に共通の基礎的知見を与えるものである.
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