Evoking Agency
Attention Model and Behavior Control in a Robotic Art Installation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10283244 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Kroos (0000-0002-6984-9139, Christian Kroos (scientist), MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC NSW 1797, Australia. E-mail: <>.), Dishan Herath (0000-0002-7509-5265, Western Sydney University), Damith C Herath (Damith C. Herath (engineer), MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC NSW 1797, Australia. E-mail: <>.), Stelarc Stelarc (0009-0005-3532-6742, Stelarc (artist), MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC NSW 1797, Australia. E-mail: <>.) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 401-407 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/leon_a_00435 |
| OpenAlex | W2065538086 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 5 |
Robotic embodiments of artificial agents seem to reinstate a body-mind dualism as consequence of their technical implementation, but could this supposition be a misconception? The authors present their artistic, scientific and engineering work on a robotic installation, the Articulated Head, and its perception-action control system, the Thinking Head Attention Model and Behavioral System (THAMBS). The authors propose that agency emerges from the interplay of the robot's behavior and the environment and that, in the system's interaction with humans, it is to the same degree attributed to the robot as it is grounded in the robot's actions: Agency cannot be instilled; it needs to be evoked
Action (physics) · Agency (philosophy) · Behavior-based robotics · Cognitive science · Control (management) · Dualism · Epistemology · Human–computer interaction · Perception · Robot · Robotics · Sense of agency · Work (physics) · Action Observation and Synchronization · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Robot Interaction and HRI
| Citations per year | 0.55 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |