Tom Ziemke
Biographic Data
| ID | 5119574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Ziemke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziemke |
| SIGNATURE | ZIEMKE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6883-2450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reading with Robots
In recent years, there has been a significant decline in reading motivation among Swedish school children. This research-through-design study explored if and how talking to a social robot about books might help to motivate fourth-grade students (10–11 years old) to read more. The study followed a three-phase design process, in which we designed and tested robot book talks in a school class with 19 students, using a Wizard of Oz set-up with a Furh…
Investigating healthcare workers' technostress when welfare technology is introduced in long-term care facilities
Welfare technology has recently reached older adults in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). Many Swedish municipalities are introducing emerging technologies such as virtual reality, robotic assistive devices, and social robots in LTCFs as part of everyday care. However, not only older adults are affected by these deployments. Healthcare workers are left to master these technologiesâ and integrate them into existing care practices. Previous resear…
Mental State Attribution to Robots
The topic of mental state attribution to robots has been approached by researchers from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and philosophy. As a consequence, the empirical studies that have been conducted so far exhibit considerable diversity in terms of how the phenomenon is described and how it is approached from a theoretical and methodological standpoint. This literature review addresses the need fo…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Explainable Robotic Systems
introduction Open AccessIntroduction to the Special Issue on Explainable Robotic Systems Share on Authors: Maartje M. A. De Graaf Utrecht University Utrecht UniversityView Profile , Anca Dragan University of California, Berkeley University of California, BerkeleyView Profile , Bertram F. Malle Brown University Brown UniversityView Profile , Tom Ziemke Linkoping University Linkoping UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM Transactions on …
The Perceptual Belief Problem
The explainability of robotic systems depends on people’s ability to reliably attribute perceptual beliefs to robots, i.e., what robots know (or believe) about objects and events in the world based on their perception. However, the perceptual systems of robots are not necessarily well understood by the majority of people interacting with them. In this article, we explain why this is a significant, difficult, and unique problem in social robotics.…
Robot Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism (DREAM)
The development of social robots for children with autism has been a growth field for the past 15 years. This article reviews studies in robots and autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder that impacts social-communication development, and the ways social robots could help children with autism develop social skills. Drawing on ethics research from the EU-funded Development of Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism (DREAM) project (framewo…
Czym jest to, co zwiemy ucieleśnieniem
Ucielenienie stao si wanym pojciem wielu obszarw kognitywistyki. Jednak rnie okrela si, czym ono dokadnie jest i jakiego rodzaju ciaa wymaga si dla okrelonego typu poznania ucielenionego. Std chocia wiele osb zgodzioby si dzisiaj, e ludzie s ucielenionymi podmiotami poznajcymi, nie ma penej zgody co do tego, jakiego rodzaju artefakt mona uzna za ucieleniony. W tym artykule wyrniamy i zestawiamy sze rnych poj ucielenienia, ktre z grubsza mona scha…
Embodiment
Sociocultural Situatedness
The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with socioculturally contextualized structures and practices; and, furthermore, how these structures interact, contextually, with language and ca…
On the role(s) of modelling in cognitive science
Although work on computational and robotic modelling of cognition is highly diverse, as an empirical method it can be roughly divided into at least two clearly different, though non-exclusive branches, motivated to evaluate the sufficiency or the necessity of theories when it comes to accounting for data and/or other observations. With the rising profile of theories of situated/embodied cognition, a third non-exclusive avenue for investigation ha…
On the role(s) of modelling in cognitive science
Although work on computational and robotic modelling of cognition is highly diverse, as an empirical method it can be roughly divided into at least two clearly different, though non-exclusive branches, motivated to evaluate the sufficiency or the necessity of theories when it comes to accounting for data and/or other observations. With the rising profile of theories of situated/embodied cognition, a third non-exclusive avenue for investigation ha…
Aristotle, autonomy and the explanation of behaviour
This paper examines Aristotle’s notion of autonomy and its implication for the mechanicism/autonomy debate. We introduce the basic principles of Aristotle’s scientific framework, including his theory of four causes for the explanation of nature. We draw parallels between these notions of autonomy and causation and autopoietic theory, dynamical systems and robotics, suggesting that they may be compatible with Aristotle’s framework. We argue that u…
On the epigenesis of meaning in robots and organisms
This paper discusses recent research on humanoid robots and thought experiments addressing the question to what degree such robots could be expected to develop human-like cognition, if rather than being preprogrammed they were made to learn from the interaction with their physical and social environment like human infants. A question of particular interest, from both a semiotic and a cognitive scientific perspective, is whether or not such robots…
A stroll through the worlds of robots and animals
Article A stroll through the worlds of robots and animals: Applying Jakob von Uexkülls theory of meaning to adaptive robots and artificial life was published on July 16, 2001 in the journal Semiotica (volume 2001, issue 134)
On the Subject of Objects
This paper addresses the relation between an agent and its environment, and more specifically, how subjects perceive object/artefacts/tools and their (possible) use. Four different conceptions of the relation between subject and object are compared here: functional tone (von Uexküll), equipment (Heidegger), affordance (Gibson), and entry point (Kirsh). even as these concepts have developed within different disciplines (theoretical biology, philos…
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On the Subject of Objects
This paper addresses the relation between an agent and its environment, and more specifically, how subjects perceive object/artefacts/tools and their (possible) use. Four different conceptions of the relation between subject and object are compared here: functional tone (von Uexküll), equipment (Heidegger), affordance (Gibson), and entry point (Kirsh). even as these concepts have developed within different disciplines (theoretical biology, philos…
A stroll through the worlds of robots and animals
Article A stroll through the worlds of robots and animals: Applying Jakob von Uexkülls theory of meaning to adaptive robots and artificial life was published on July 16, 2001 in the journal Semiotica (volume 2001, issue 134)
On the epigenesis of meaning in robots and organisms
This paper discusses recent research on humanoid robots and thought experiments addressing the question to what degree such robots could be expected to develop human-like cognition, if rather than being preprogrammed they were made to learn from the interaction with their physical and social environment like human infants. A question of particular interest, from both a semiotic and a cognitive scientific perspective, is whether or not such robots…
Aristotle, autonomy and the explanation of behaviour
This paper examines Aristotle’s notion of autonomy and its implication for the mechanicism/autonomy debate. We introduce the basic principles of Aristotle’s scientific framework, including his theory of four causes for the explanation of nature. We draw parallels between these notions of autonomy and causation and autopoietic theory, dynamical systems and robotics, suggesting that they may be compatible with Aristotle’s framework. We argue that u…
Embodiment
Sociocultural Situatedness
The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with socioculturally contextualized structures and practices; and, furthermore, how these structures interact, contextually, with language and ca…
On the role(s) of modelling in cognitive science
Although work on computational and robotic modelling of cognition is highly diverse, as an empirical method it can be roughly divided into at least two clearly different, though non-exclusive branches, motivated to evaluate the sufficiency or the necessity of theories when it comes to accounting for data and/or other observations. With the rising profile of theories of situated/embodied cognition, a third non-exclusive avenue for investigation ha…
On the role(s) of modelling in cognitive science
Although work on computational and robotic modelling of cognition is highly diverse, as an empirical method it can be roughly divided into at least two clearly different, though non-exclusive branches, motivated to evaluate the sufficiency or the necessity of theories when it comes to accounting for data and/or other observations. With the rising profile of theories of situated/embodied cognition, a third non-exclusive avenue for investigation ha…
Czym jest to, co zwiemy ucieleśnieniem
Ucielenienie stao si wanym pojciem wielu obszarw kognitywistyki. Jednak rnie okrela si, czym ono dokadnie jest i jakiego rodzaju ciaa wymaga si dla okrelonego typu poznania ucielenionego. Std chocia wiele osb zgodzioby si dzisiaj, e ludzie s ucielenionymi podmiotami poznajcymi, nie ma penej zgody co do tego, jakiego rodzaju artefakt mona uzna za ucieleniony. W tym artykule wyrniamy i zestawiamy sze rnych poj ucielenienia, ktre z grubsza mona scha…
Robot Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism (DREAM)
The development of social robots for children with autism has been a growth field for the past 15 years. This article reviews studies in robots and autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder that impacts social-communication development, and the ways social robots could help children with autism develop social skills. Drawing on ethics research from the EU-funded Development of Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism (DREAM) project (framewo…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Explainable Robotic Systems
introduction Open AccessIntroduction to the Special Issue on Explainable Robotic Systems Share on Authors: Maartje M. A. De Graaf Utrecht University Utrecht UniversityView Profile , Anca Dragan University of California, Berkeley University of California, BerkeleyView Profile , Bertram F. Malle Brown University Brown UniversityView Profile , Tom Ziemke Linkoping University Linkoping UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM Transactions on …
The Perceptual Belief Problem
The explainability of robotic systems depends on people’s ability to reliably attribute perceptual beliefs to robots, i.e., what robots know (or believe) about objects and events in the world based on their perception. However, the perceptual systems of robots are not necessarily well understood by the majority of people interacting with them. In this article, we explain why this is a significant, difficult, and unique problem in social robotics.…
Mental State Attribution to Robots
The topic of mental state attribution to robots has been approached by researchers from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and philosophy. As a consequence, the empirical studies that have been conducted so far exhibit considerable diversity in terms of how the phenomenon is described and how it is approached from a theoretical and methodological standpoint. This literature review addresses the need fo…
Investigating healthcare workers' technostress when welfare technology is introduced in long-term care facilities
Welfare technology has recently reached older adults in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). Many Swedish municipalities are introducing emerging technologies such as virtual reality, robotic assistive devices, and social robots in LTCFs as part of everyday care. However, not only older adults are affected by these deployments. Healthcare workers are left to master these technologiesâ and integrate them into existing care practices. Previous resear…
Reading with Robots
In recent years, there has been a significant decline in reading motivation among Swedish school children. This research-through-design study explored if and how talking to a social robot about books might help to motivate fourth-grade students (10–11 years old) to read more. The study followed a three-phase design process, in which we designed and tested robot book talks in a school class with 19 students, using a Wizard of Oz set-up with a Furh…
Computer Science (12 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · Cognitive science (6 works) · Robot (6 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Engineering (3 works)