Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships With Computers and Robots

Kerstin Dautenhahn

Springer, May 31, 2002 - 281 pages

The field of Socially Intelligent Agents (SIA) is a fast growing and increasingly important area that comprises highly active research activities and strongly interdisciplinary approaches. Socially Intelligent Agents, edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn, Alan Bond, Lola Cañamero and Bruce Edmonds, emerged from the AAAI Symposium "Socially Intelligent Agents - The Human in the Loop". The book provides 32 chapters, written by leading SIA researchers, addressing topics such as: social robotics, embodied conversational agents, affective computing, anthropomorphism, narrative and story-telling, social aspects in multi-agent systems, new technologies for education and therapy, and more. This breadth of topics covered in Socially Intelligent Agents provides the reader with a comprehensive look at current research activities in the area. Socially Intelligent Agents serves as an excellent reference for a wide readership, e.g. computer scientists, roboticists, web programmers and designers, computer users, cognitive scientists, and other researchers interested in the study of how humans relate to computers and robots, and how these agents in return can relate to humans. This book is also suitable as research material in a variety of advanced level courses, including Applied Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Agents, Human-Computer Interaction, Situated, Embodied AI.

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About the author

Kerstin Dautenhahn is Research Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire, where she is a coordinator of the Adaptive Systems Research Group. Her research interests include social learning, human-robot interaction, social robotics, narrative and robotic assisted therapy for children with autism. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems and the general chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2006).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships With Computers and Robots; Volume 3 of Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations
• Author: Kerstin Dautenhahn
• Editor: Kerstin Dautenhahn
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer, 2002
• ISBN: 1402070578, 9781402070570
• Length: 281 pages
• Subjects: Computer systems; Computers / General; Computers / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; Computers / Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction; Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General; Computers / User Interfaces; Intelligent agents (Computer software); Medical / General; Robots; Technology & Engineering / Robotics