Showing papers by "Cristiano Castelfranchi published in 2019"
TL;DR: Words As social Tools proposes that language and sociality - along with interoceptive and metacognitive processes - are key for the grounding of abstract concepts that are more complex, variable, and more detached from perceptual and motor experience than concrete concepts.
119 citations
TL;DR: The present work brings together all these separate strands of research within a unified overarching, multidisciplinary framework for SMC, which combines evidence from kinematic studies of human-human interaction and computational modeling of social exchanges.
83 citations
TL;DR: The widespread assumption that anger is a response to wrongdoing and motivates people to sanction it, as well as the lack of distinction between resentment and indignation, obscure notable differen....
Abstract: The widespread assumption that anger is a response to wrongdoing and motivates people to sanction it, as well as the lack of distinction between resentment and indignation, obscure notable differen...
21 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, meta-emotions are defined as emotions about one's own emotions, which contribute to the complexity of people's psychic life by modifying the intensity and quality of their first-order emotions, and influencing their decisions and behaviour.
12 citations
TL;DR: Rather than responding to each comment separately, the authors preferred to address all comments with a comprehensive account that includes some points they have either neglected or not discussed in detail in the target-article.
7 citations
TL;DR: This contribution takes mirror worlds as a conceptual blueprint to envision future smart environments in which the physical and the virtual layers are blended into each other, and suggests that pervasive computing technologies can be used to create a coupling between these layers.
Abstract: Computing systems can function as augmentation of individual humans as well as of human societies. In this contribution, we take mirror worlds as a conceptual blueprint to envision future smart environments in which the physical and the virtual layers are blended into each other. We suggest that pervasive computing technologies can be used to create a coupling between these layers, so that actions or, more generally, events in the physical layer would have an effect in the virtual layer and viceversa. On top of this, wearable technologies and augmented reality techniques enable new forms of user interaction with the smart environment and with other users. Mirror worlds so conceived will enable temporal, individual, and social augmentations. We conclude by elaborating on some possible consequences at the societal level.
6 citations
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-modelling architecture that automates the very labor-intensive and therefore time-heavy and expensive and therefore expensive and expensive process of modeling human interaction with computers.
4 citations
01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: The revolution of digital democracy is discussed, by arguing that it should integrate (rather than replace) representative democracy based on computational tools and platforms, and that the relationship between people and their representatives and institutions remains absolutely crucial to democracy as a bilateral trust relation.
Abstract: In this chapter we discuss the revolution of digital democracy (a.k.a. on-line democracy), by arguing that it should integrate (rather than replace) representative democracy based on computational tools and platforms, and that the relationship between people and their representatives and institutions remains absolutely crucial to democracy as a bilateral trust relation.
3 citations
01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: This paper illustrates how employing the model of trust by Falcone and Castelfranchi to include self-modeling skills in the NAO humanoid robot involved in trustworthy interactions is illustrated.
Abstract: Robots involved in collaborative and cooperative tasks with humans cannot be programmed in all their functions. They are autonomous entities acting in a dynamic and often partially known environment. How to interact with the humans and the decision process are determined by the knowledge on the environment, on the other and on itself. Also, the level of trust that each member of the team places in the other is crucial to creating a fruitful collaborative relationship. We hypothesize that one of the main components of a trustful relationship resides in the self-modeling abilities of the robot. The paper illustrates how employing the model of trust by Falcone and Castelfranchi to include self-modeling skills in the NAO humanoid robot involved in trustworthy interactions. Self-modeling skills are then implemented employing features by the BDI paradigm.
2 citations
Proceedings Article•
01 Jan 2019TL;DR: This paper is interested to identify how consciousness is relevant for the intentional action and in the construction of a Self and how it is possible to build robots, or more in general autonomous artificial agents, able to realize deep and intelligent interactions.
Abstract: In this paper we present a specific analysis of the consciousness theme. In particular, we are interested to identify how consciousness is relevant for the intentional action (both individual and social one) and in the construction of a Self. All these aspects are very important for understanding also how it is possible to build robots, or more in general autonomous artificial agents, able to realize deep and intelligent interactions.