Minimal agency detection of embodied agents

Authors:
Hiroyuki Iizuka;Ezequiel Di Paolo
Affiliations:
Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK and Department of Media Architecture, Future University-Hakodate, Hakodate, Hokkai ...;Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Venue:
ECAL'07 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Advances in artificial life
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Agency detection is studied in a simple simulated model with embodied agents. Psychological experiments such as double TV-monitor experiments and perceptual crossing show the central role of dynamic mutuality and contingency in social interactions. This paper explores the ongoing dynamical aspects of minimal agency detection in terms of the mutuality and contingency. It is investigated how the embodied agents can establish a live interaction and discriminate this from interactions from recorded motions that are identical to the live interaction but cannot react contingently. Our results suggest that the recognition of the presence of another's agency need not lie on complex cognitive individual mechanisms able to integrate past information, but rather on the situated ongoingness of the interaction process itself, on its dynamic properties, and its robustness to noise.