Toward constructing robots with intentional agency

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23320002
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: SHIBATA Masayoshi 金沢大学, その他部局等, 理事 (20201543)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OHIRA Hideki 名古屋大学, 環境学研究科, 教授 (90221837) ; HASHIMOTO Takashi 北陸先端科学技術大学院大学, 知識科学研究科, 教授 (90313709) ; KONNO Takeshi 北陸先端科学技術大学院大学, 知識科学研究科, 特任助教 (50537058) ; NAGATAKI Shoji 中京大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (40288436) ; MIURA Toshihiko 和洋女子大学, 言語・文学系, 教授 (10219587) ; KASHIWABATA Tatsuya 慶應義塾大学, 文学部, 教授 (80263193) ; HATTORI Hiroyuki 南山大学, 人文学部, 教授 (40110754)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 共同注意 / 意図的主体性 / 自律型ロボット / インタラクション / 意図の重層性 / 注視対象 / 記憶反射型 / 情動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The outcome of this research is, by producing phenomena of primitive joint attention between robots and humans and conducting some interaction experiments between them, to made it clear (1) that the mutual reading of each other’s intentions constructing joint attention is made possible by desires or emotions rather than by “understanding at a higher level of using language”, and (2) that “otherness” of intentions is felt more real when robots show “resistant character” rather than “cooperative character”. And our research also gave (3) a useful suggestion to the elucidation of the mechanisms of human joint attention through making the internal structures of robots increasingly complex from simple memory-refrective type to emotion-driving type.

Free Research Field

哲学