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Robots as Confederates: How Robots Can and Should Support Research in the Humanities
Kerstin Fischer
60 - 66
10.3233/978-1-61499-708-5-60
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume 290: What Social Robots Can and Should Do
Abstract

This paper addresses the use of robots in experimental research for the study of human language, human interaction, and human nature. It is argued that robots make excellent confederates that can be completely controlled, yet which engage human participants in interactions that allow us to study numerous linguistic and psychological variables in isolation in an ecologically valid way. Robots thus combine the advantages of observational studies and of controlled experimentation.

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