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Can two robots have a shared intentional relation to the world? |
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Among the fundamental prerequisites for the development of complex linguistic skills, the development of joint attention is probably one of the hardest problem to be solved. Demonstrating the development of joint attention between a human and a robot or between two robots implies understanding how a number of underlying skills can appear. One of the most underinvestigated aspects of this problem is the modelling of the mechanisms responsible for the emergence of the intentional stance (interpreting the behavior of other agents as goal-directed). Understanding this step, crucial in child’s development, would open to the creation of robots with a qualitatively different kind of awareness, setting the right basis the problem of semantic bootstrapping.
Selected Publication
Kaplan, F. and Hafner, V.V. (2006) The challenges of joint attention, Interaction Studies, 7 (2) : 135-169 
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