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Socially Situated Planning

Virtual environments such as training simulators and video games do an impressive job at modeling the physical dynamics of synthetic worlds but fall short when modeling the social dynamics of anything but the most impoverished human encounters. Yet the social dimension is at least as important as good graphics for creating an engaging game or effective training tool. Commercial flight simulator...

Socially Situated Cognition as a Bridge

Social psychology has a unique position among the sciences. It is placed at the intersection of the psychological (the universe of mental processes inside the head) and the social (the external universe of interpersonal interactions and group ties). In principle, this position gives us as a field an unusual perspective, because our research practices and conceptual models have to take both of t...

The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition

Because human cognition is creative and socially situated, knowledge accumulates, diffuses, and gets applied in new contexts, generating cultural analogs of phenomena observed in population genetics such as adaptation and drift. It is therefore commonly thought that elements of culture evolve through natural selection. However, natural selection was proposed to explain how change accumulates de...

Information Seeking as Socially Situated Activity

Communicative Behavior of Socially Situated Agents

This paper introduces a model of user-agent and inter-agent interaction that supports basic features of affective communication. As essential requirements for animated agents’ capability to engage in social interaction, we motivate reasoning about emotion and emotion expression, personality, and social role awareness. A (rather standard) appraisal program is employed to derive the agent’s emoti...