Agnieszka Wykowska
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4602885 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Agnieszka Wykowska |
| PRENOMES | Agnieszka |
| SOBRENOME | Wykowska |
| ASSINATURA | WYKOWSKA A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Italian Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3323-7357 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Theta Frequency Band in the EEG Signal as Neurocognitive Indicator of Cognitive Load for Collaborative Tasks Involving Robot Teleoperation
The aim of the present study was to identify metrics of cognitive effort during robot teleoperation in a social context of joint collaborative task performed with another human user. Robotics teleoperation enables control of artificial systems in remote environments but is often cognitively challenging. Measuring human cognitive effort during teleoperation has largely relied on subjective measures like questionnaires. To evaluate the quality of t…
Gaze Estimation Learning Architecture as Support to Affective, Social and Cognitive Studies in Natural Human–Robot Interaction
Gaze is a crucial social cue in any interacting scenario and drives many mechanisms of social cognition (joint and shared attention, predicting human intention and coordinating tasks). Gaze is an indication of social and emotional functions affecting the way the emotions are perceived. Evidence shows that embodied humanoid robots endowed with social abilities can be seen as sophisticated stimuli to study several mechanisms of human social cogniti…
The influence of sense of agency on learning structured regularities
In many real-life situations learning is an active process of engaging with new information, experimenting and integrating new experiences to build meaningful understanding. However, learning can have either a more active or more passive form and several factors may influence how effectively individuals learn new information in both cases. One such factor is the sense of agency, which refers to the subjective feeling of control over one’s actions…
Minimal conditions for the emergence of a vicarious sense of agency toward artificial agents
A Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of being in control over own actions and their outcomes. However, people can also experience a "vicarious" SoA over the actions performed by other agents, including artificial agents. The present study aimed to understand the minimal conditions for vicarious SoA toward artificial agents. Specifically, we addressed whether vicarious SoA emerges when people have access only to the action effect (proximal and d…
Does perceived voluntariness of others’ actions induce vicarious sense of agency? Evidence from human-robot interaction
Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of control over one's actions and outcomes. People can experience "vicarious" SoA towards other agents, either other humans or artificial agents such as robots. A commonly used measure of implicit SoA is the Intentional Binding (IB) effect, which is stronger when the action is voluntary, relative to involuntary. However, it remains unclear whether this is true also for vicarious SoA. Thus, in three experiments…
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots
As social robots are being built with the aim of employing them in our social environments, it is crucial to understand whether we are inclined to include them in our social ingroups. Social inclusion might depend on various factors. To understand if people have the tendency to treat robots as their in-group members, we adapted a classical social psychology paradigm, namely the “Cyberball game”, to a 3-D experimental protocol involving an embodie…
Type of Education Affects Individuals’ Adoption of Intentional Stance Towards Robots
Research has shown that, under certain circumstances, people can adopt the Intentional Stance towards robots and thus treat them as intentional agents. Previous evidence showed that there are factors at play in modulating the Intentional Stance, for example individuals’ years of education. In the present study, we aimed at investigating whether, given the same years of education, participants’ type of formal education- in terms of theoretical bac…
The Influence of Robot Autonomy on Sense of Control and Trust Towards a Robot
Autonomous robots can make decisions that lead to outcomes that are better, equal to, or worse than those requested by a human. However, how the value of these outcomes shapes perceptions of robot autonomy remains underexplored. We conducted four online experiments examining how different forms of robot decision-making autonomy influence human–robot interaction. Participants played a game in which they selected a box for a robot avatar to collect…
The Phenotypes of Anthropomorphism and the Link to Personality Traits
Facing robotic agents, we cannot help but ascribe them anthropomorphic characteristics. While this cognitive process has been extensively studied, numerous questions remain about how the tendency to anthropomorphize is related to individual differences and personality traits (i.e. phenotypes). Understanding what generates inter-individual differences is crucial since these differences can explain an important part of the representations and there…
Joint action with artificial agents
Does attributing mental states to a robot influence accessibility of information represented during reading
When we read fiction, we encounter characters that interact in the story. As such, we encode that information and comprehend the stories. Prior studies suggest that this comprehension process is facilitated by taking the perspective of characters during reading. Thus, two questions of interest are whether people take the perspective of characters that are not perceived as capable of experiencing perspectives (e.g., robots), and whether current mo…
Human-Likeness of Feedback Gestures Affects Decision Processes and Subjective Trust
Trust is fundamental in building meaningful social interactions. With the advance of social robotics in collaborative settings, trust in Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) is gaining more and more scientific attention. Indeed, understanding how different factors may affect users’ trust toward robots is of utmost importance. In this study, we focused on two factors related to the robot’s behavior that could modulate trust. In a two-forced choice task w…
The personality of anthropomorphism
Focusing on the face or getting distracted by social signals? The effect of distracting gestures on attentional focus in natural interaction
ERP markers of action planning and outcome monitoring in human – robot interaction
The present study aimed to examine event-related potentials (ERPs) of action planning and outcome monitoring in human-robot interaction. To this end, participants were instructed to perform costly actions (i.e. losing points) to stop a balloon from inflating and to prevent its explosion. They performed the task alone (individual condition) or with a robot (joint condition). Similar to findings from human-human interactions, results showed that ac…
Different models of anthropomorphism across cultures and ontological limits in current frameworks the integrative framework of anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism describes the tendency to ascribe nonhuman agents with characteristics and capacities such as cognitions, intentions, or emotions. Due to the increased interest in social robotic, anthropomorphism has become a core concept of human-robot interaction (HRI) studies. However, the wide use of this concept resulted in an interchangeability of its definition along with a lack of integrative approaches. In the present study, we propose …
Attribution of intentional agency towards robots reduces one’s own sense of agency
In the presence of others, sense of agency (SoA), i.e. the perceived relationship between our own actions and external events, is reduced. The present study aimed at investigating whether the phenomenon of reduced SoA is observed in human-robot interaction, similarly to human-human interaction. To this end, we tested SoA when people interacted with a robot (Experiment 1), with a passive, non-agentic air pump (Experiment 2), or when they interacte…
Social Robots to Test Flexibility of Human Social Cognition
As the field of social robotics has been dynamically growing and expanding over various areas of research and application, in which robots can be of assistance and companionship for humans, this paper offers a different perspective on a role that social robots can also play, namely the role of informing us about flexibility of human mechanisms of social cognition. The paper focuses on studies in which robots have been used as a new type of “stimu…
Can I get your (robot) attention? Human sensitivity to subtle hints of human-likeness in a humanoid robot’s behavior
Designing artificial agents that can closely imitate human behavior, might influence humans in perceiving them as intentional agents. Nonetheless, the factors that are crucial for an artificial agent to be perceived as an animated and anthropomorphic being still need to be addressed. In the current study, we investigated some of the factors that might affect the perception of a robot's behavior as human-like or intentional. To meet this aim, seve…
Humans socially attune to their “follower” robot
In this study, we examined if humans adapt their performance to delays in robot’s actions in a leader-follower interaction scenario. Participants were asked to “teach” a sequence of musical tones to the iCub robot. The robot repeated the sequence with decreasing delay between its own taps and taps performed by the participants. We observed that mean period of participants’ tapping behavior was affected by the iCub’s performance. This suggests tha…
It’s in the Eyes
Adopting the intentional stance toward natural and artificial agents
In our daily lives, we need to predict and understand others’ behavior in order to navigate through our social environment. Predictions concerning other humans’ behavior usually refer to their mental states, such as beliefs or intentions. Such a predictive strategy is called ‘adoption of the intentional stance.’ In this paper, we review literature related to the concept of intentional stance from the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, human …
Humans are Well Tuned to Detecting Agents Among Non-agents
Implications of Robot Actions for Human Perception. How Do We Represent Actions of the Observed Robots
How Humans Optimize Their Interaction with the Environment
It’s in the Eyes
Adopting the intentional stance toward natural and artificial agents
In our daily lives, we need to predict and understand others’ behavior in order to navigate through our social environment. Predictions concerning other humans’ behavior usually refer to their mental states, such as beliefs or intentions. Such a predictive strategy is called ‘adoption of the intentional stance.’ In this paper, we review literature related to the concept of intentional stance from the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, human …
Can I get your (robot) attention? Human sensitivity to subtle hints of human-likeness in a humanoid robot’s behavior
Designing artificial agents that can closely imitate human behavior, might influence humans in perceiving them as intentional agents. Nonetheless, the factors that are crucial for an artificial agent to be perceived as an animated and anthropomorphic being still need to be addressed. In the current study, we investigated some of the factors that might affect the perception of a robot's behavior as human-like or intentional. To meet this aim, seve…
How Humans Optimize Their Interaction with the Environment
Implications of Robot Actions for Human Perception. How Do We Represent Actions of the Observed Robots
Humans are Well Tuned to Detecting Agents Among Non-agents
Humans socially attune to their “follower” robot
In this study, we examined if humans adapt their performance to delays in robot’s actions in a leader-follower interaction scenario. Participants were asked to “teach” a sequence of musical tones to the iCub robot. The robot repeated the sequence with decreasing delay between its own taps and taps performed by the participants. We observed that mean period of participants’ tapping behavior was affected by the iCub’s performance. This suggests tha…
It’s in the Eyes
Adopting the intentional stance toward natural and artificial agents
In our daily lives, we need to predict and understand others’ behavior in order to navigate through our social environment. Predictions concerning other humans’ behavior usually refer to their mental states, such as beliefs or intentions. Such a predictive strategy is called ‘adoption of the intentional stance.’ In this paper, we review literature related to the concept of intentional stance from the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, human …
Attribution of intentional agency towards robots reduces one’s own sense of agency
In the presence of others, sense of agency (SoA), i.e. the perceived relationship between our own actions and external events, is reduced. The present study aimed at investigating whether the phenomenon of reduced SoA is observed in human-robot interaction, similarly to human-human interaction. To this end, we tested SoA when people interacted with a robot (Experiment 1), with a passive, non-agentic air pump (Experiment 2), or when they interacte…
Social Robots to Test Flexibility of Human Social Cognition
As the field of social robotics has been dynamically growing and expanding over various areas of research and application, in which robots can be of assistance and companionship for humans, this paper offers a different perspective on a role that social robots can also play, namely the role of informing us about flexibility of human mechanisms of social cognition. The paper focuses on studies in which robots have been used as a new type of “stimu…
Can I get your (robot) attention? Human sensitivity to subtle hints of human-likeness in a humanoid robot’s behavior
Designing artificial agents that can closely imitate human behavior, might influence humans in perceiving them as intentional agents. Nonetheless, the factors that are crucial for an artificial agent to be perceived as an animated and anthropomorphic being still need to be addressed. In the current study, we investigated some of the factors that might affect the perception of a robot's behavior as human-like or intentional. To meet this aim, seve…
The personality of anthropomorphism
Focusing on the face or getting distracted by social signals? The effect of distracting gestures on attentional focus in natural interaction
ERP markers of action planning and outcome monitoring in human – robot interaction
The present study aimed to examine event-related potentials (ERPs) of action planning and outcome monitoring in human-robot interaction. To this end, participants were instructed to perform costly actions (i.e. losing points) to stop a balloon from inflating and to prevent its explosion. They performed the task alone (individual condition) or with a robot (joint condition). Similar to findings from human-human interactions, results showed that ac…
Different models of anthropomorphism across cultures and ontological limits in current frameworks the integrative framework of anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism describes the tendency to ascribe nonhuman agents with characteristics and capacities such as cognitions, intentions, or emotions. Due to the increased interest in social robotic, anthropomorphism has become a core concept of human-robot interaction (HRI) studies. However, the wide use of this concept resulted in an interchangeability of its definition along with a lack of integrative approaches. In the present study, we propose …
Joint action with artificial agents
Does attributing mental states to a robot influence accessibility of information represented during reading
When we read fiction, we encounter characters that interact in the story. As such, we encode that information and comprehend the stories. Prior studies suggest that this comprehension process is facilitated by taking the perspective of characters during reading. Thus, two questions of interest are whether people take the perspective of characters that are not perceived as capable of experiencing perspectives (e.g., robots), and whether current mo…
Human-Likeness of Feedback Gestures Affects Decision Processes and Subjective Trust
Trust is fundamental in building meaningful social interactions. With the advance of social robotics in collaborative settings, trust in Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) is gaining more and more scientific attention. Indeed, understanding how different factors may affect users’ trust toward robots is of utmost importance. In this study, we focused on two factors related to the robot’s behavior that could modulate trust. In a two-forced choice task w…
The Phenotypes of Anthropomorphism and the Link to Personality Traits
Facing robotic agents, we cannot help but ascribe them anthropomorphic characteristics. While this cognitive process has been extensively studied, numerous questions remain about how the tendency to anthropomorphize is related to individual differences and personality traits (i.e. phenotypes). Understanding what generates inter-individual differences is crucial since these differences can explain an important part of the representations and there…
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots
As social robots are being built with the aim of employing them in our social environments, it is crucial to understand whether we are inclined to include them in our social ingroups. Social inclusion might depend on various factors. To understand if people have the tendency to treat robots as their in-group members, we adapted a classical social psychology paradigm, namely the “Cyberball game”, to a 3-D experimental protocol involving an embodie…
Type of Education Affects Individuals’ Adoption of Intentional Stance Towards Robots
Research has shown that, under certain circumstances, people can adopt the Intentional Stance towards robots and thus treat them as intentional agents. Previous evidence showed that there are factors at play in modulating the Intentional Stance, for example individuals’ years of education. In the present study, we aimed at investigating whether, given the same years of education, participants’ type of formal education- in terms of theoretical bac…
The Influence of Robot Autonomy on Sense of Control and Trust Towards a Robot
Autonomous robots can make decisions that lead to outcomes that are better, equal to, or worse than those requested by a human. However, how the value of these outcomes shapes perceptions of robot autonomy remains underexplored. We conducted four online experiments examining how different forms of robot decision-making autonomy influence human–robot interaction. Participants played a game in which they selected a box for a robot avatar to collect…
Does perceived voluntariness of others’ actions induce vicarious sense of agency? Evidence from human-robot interaction
Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of control over one's actions and outcomes. People can experience "vicarious" SoA towards other agents, either other humans or artificial agents such as robots. A commonly used measure of implicit SoA is the Intentional Binding (IB) effect, which is stronger when the action is voluntary, relative to involuntary. However, it remains unclear whether this is true also for vicarious SoA. Thus, in three experiments…
Theta Frequency Band in the EEG Signal as Neurocognitive Indicator of Cognitive Load for Collaborative Tasks Involving Robot Teleoperation
The aim of the present study was to identify metrics of cognitive effort during robot teleoperation in a social context of joint collaborative task performed with another human user. Robotics teleoperation enables control of artificial systems in remote environments but is often cognitively challenging. Measuring human cognitive effort during teleoperation has largely relied on subjective measures like questionnaires. To evaluate the quality of t…
Gaze Estimation Learning Architecture as Support to Affective, Social and Cognitive Studies in Natural Human–Robot Interaction
Gaze is a crucial social cue in any interacting scenario and drives many mechanisms of social cognition (joint and shared attention, predicting human intention and coordinating tasks). Gaze is an indication of social and emotional functions affecting the way the emotions are perceived. Evidence shows that embodied humanoid robots endowed with social abilities can be seen as sophisticated stimuli to study several mechanisms of human social cogniti…
The influence of sense of agency on learning structured regularities
In many real-life situations learning is an active process of engaging with new information, experimenting and integrating new experiences to build meaningful understanding. However, learning can have either a more active or more passive form and several factors may influence how effectively individuals learn new information in both cases. One such factor is the sense of agency, which refers to the subjective feeling of control over one’s actions…
Minimal conditions for the emergence of a vicarious sense of agency toward artificial agents
A Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of being in control over own actions and their outcomes. However, people can also experience a "vicarious" SoA over the actions performed by other agents, including artificial agents. The present study aimed to understand the minimal conditions for vicarious SoA toward artificial agents. Specifically, we addressed whether vicarious SoA emerges when people have access only to the action effect (proximal and d…
Psychology (22 obras) · Cognitive psychology (20 obras) · Computer Science (19 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (18 obras) · Robot (18 obras) · Social Robot Interaction and HRI (15 obras) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (12 obras) · Human–robot interaction (11 obras) · Human–computer interaction (10 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras)