Towards a new social referencing paradigm

S. Boucenna (1) , P. Gaussier (1) , L. Hafemeister (1) , K. Bard (2)

1 ETIS - UMR 8051 - Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes
2 Portmouth University

In this work, we are interesting in understanding how emotional interactions with a social partner can bootstrap increasingly complex behaviors, which is important both for robotics application and un- derstanding development. In particular, we pro- pose that social referencing, gathering information through emotional interaction, fulfills this goal. So- cial referencing, a developmental process incorporat- ing the ability to recognize, understand, respond to and alter behavior in response to the emotional ex- pressions of a social partner, allows an infant, or a robot, to seek information from another individual and use that information to guide his behavior to- ward an object or event

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Réseau de neurones [cs.NE]; Robotique [cs.RO]

S. Boucenna, P. Gaussier, L. Hafemeister, K. Bard. Towards a new social referencing paradigm. epirob, 2009, France. pp.Pages 201-202. ⟨hal-00522716⟩