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“Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2023

Patrick G. T. Healey
Affiliation:
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK p.healey@qmul.ac.uk m.purver@qmul.ac.uk j.hough@qmul.ac.uk http://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk
Christine Howes
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, 41255 Gothenburg, Sweden christine.howes@gu.se eleni.gregoromichelaki@gu.se
Ruth Kempson
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK ruth.kempson@kcl.ac.uk https://gu-clasp.github.io/people/ruth-kempson/
Gregory J. Mills
Affiliation:
Faculty of Arts, Computational Linguistics (CL), University of Groningen, 9712 EK Groningen, Netherlands School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Kingston University, Surrey KT1 1LQ, UK G.Mills@kingston.ac.uk
Matthew Purver
Affiliation:
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK p.healey@qmul.ac.uk m.purver@qmul.ac.uk j.hough@qmul.ac.uk http://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Eleni Gregoromichelaki
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, 41255 Gothenburg, Sweden christine.howes@gu.se eleni.gregoromichelaki@gu.se Department of Philosophy, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK ruth.kempson@kcl.ac.uk https://gu-clasp.github.io/people/ruth-kempson/
Arash Eshghi
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK A.Eshghi@hw.ac.uk
Julian Hough
Affiliation:
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK p.healey@qmul.ac.uk m.purver@qmul.ac.uk j.hough@qmul.ac.uk http://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk

Abstract

Social robots have limited social competences. This leads us to view them as depictions of social agents rather than actual social agents. However, people also have limited social competences. We argue that all social interaction involves the depiction of social roles and that they originate in, and are defined by, their function in accounting for failures of social competence.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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