Título: Mind-reading robots

Palestrante: Prof. Peter Gärdenfors
(http://www.fil.lu.se/en/department/staff/PeterGardenfors/)

Resumo: Interaction between humans and robots cannot build 
only on linguistic communication, but also depends on our ability 
to understand each other animals, humans are good at mind-reading in the sense
that they can represent the contents of the minds of others. I shall divide
the competence for mind-reading (also known as theory of mind) into five
components: representing (1) the emotions, (2) the desires, (3) the
attentions, (4) the intentions and (5) the beliefs and knowledge of others.
Recent attempts to exploit control theory and other programming techniques for
modelling various cognitive functions will be discussed and I will outline how
this modelling approach can be combined with the analysis of mind-reading. I
then turn to the question of how these techniques can be used to construct
mind-reading robots. The focus will be on achieving joint attention and joint
intention in human-robot interaction.