Notes:
Robopsychology is primarily the study of the personalities of intelligent machines. This is related to a lot of recent work with emotional agents, or “affective computing“; emotions and all kinds of non-verbal communication are the next level of agent technology, beyond natural language programming (NLP). Sentiment analysis is a lot closer to this than most people realize; in fact, data mining is a lot like how conversational agents discover replies. A number of the earliest chatterbots were attempts to mimic “therapists”, most notably Weizenbaum’s ELIZA. There have also been many attempts to mimic pathological psychological conditions, such as schizophrenia, in chatbots. With chatbots in general there is a significant element of “smoke and mirrors” involved, which introduces the human psychological element into the machine in the form of cultural, linguistic and thematic assumptions and expectations, so becoming in a sense a sort of “mind game”. There is something called “Believable Agents”, so believability in agents can be a significant consideration. There has been a lot of work on the psychological aspects of intelligent tutoring systems in educational environments, such as for language learning, medicine (virtual patients), not to mention military. The field of Interactive Storytelling also involves significant psychological considerations. There is also a significant push toward developing interactive artificial companions, in particular for senior care, for which obviously certain psychological sensitivity is required. Artificial moral agents are another area involving psychological as well as philosphical considerations. Personality archiving, or “mind uploading“, is yet another psychological application of conversational agents. In addition to computational creativity, there is also significant work being done in the area of humor in agents, or “computational humor“.
Robopsychology not only includes the study of artificial, synthetic or robotic emotional relations with humans, but also that of both positive and negative human emotional relations with robots, including the “Uncanny Valley“, “Lovotics” and sex robots.
- The Dr. Romulon chatbot is supposed to be an improved version of the original ELIZA ‘robotic psychotherapist’ ..
- “Paranoid schizophrenic” Twitter bot @N_Pacione (a Twitter implementation of MegaHAL, a ‘learning’ Markov bot) .. by @tjcrowley .. has an antecedent in Kenneth Colby’s bot PARRY ..
- Kalle Kotipsykiatri (“Kalle, the home psychiatrist”) .. 1984 Finnish language chatterbot by Jyrki Kasvi @jyrkikasvi
- Patent (2010): Artificial Psychology Dialog Player with Aging Simulation is a software program that picks a sentence line from a repertoire according to probabilistic rules and artificial personality states.
- BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures)
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Computational creativity
- Discourse analysis
- Ethics of artificial intelligence
- Machine ethics
- Psycholinguistics
- Roboethics
- Robopsychology
- Social robot
References:
- I, Robopsychologist, Part 1: Why Robots Need Psychologists (2012)
- I, Robopsychologist, Part 2: Where Human Brains Far Surpass Computers (2012)
- A Schizophrenic Approach for Intelligent Conversational Agents (2011)
- Affective Conversational Agents (2011)
- Designing Emotions: An Empirical Approach to Realistic Affect Simulation (2011)
- Human-Robot Personal Relationships (2011)
- Integrating Psychological Behaviors in the Rational Process of Conversational Assistant Agents (2011)
- Psychological and Computational Models of Language Comprehension: In Defense of the Psychological Reality of Syntax (2011)
- The Challenge of Constructing Psychologically Believable Agents (2011)
- Building credible agents: Behaviour influenced by personality and emotional traits (2010)
- Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues (2010)
- Emotional Conversational Agents in Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry (2010)
- Extraction of Agent Psychological Behaviors from Glosses of WordNet Personality Adjectives (2010)
- Psychological research on embodied conversational agents: The case of pedagogical agents (2010)
- Response to a relational agent by hospital patients with depressive symptoms (2010)
- Technological and Psychological Fundamentals of Psychological Customization Systems (2010)
- Towards to Psychological-based Recommenders Systems: A survey on Recommender Systems (2010)
- Can Conversational Agents Express Big Five Personality Traits through Language?: Evaluating a Psychologically-Informed Language Generator (2009)
- Iterative design process for robots with personality (2009)
- Laughter in Social Robotics–no laughing matter (2009)
- Psychological Aspects in lifelike synthetic agents: Towards to the Personality Markup Language (A Brief Survey) (2009)
- Learning to Adapt in Dialogue Systems: Data-driven Models for Personality Recognition and Generation (2008)
- Psychological Facets In A Virtual Pedagogical Agent (2008)
- Computational Modelling of the Neural Systems Involved in Schizophrenia (2007)
- Psychological implications of domestic assistive technology for the elderly (2007)
- Realistic virtual characters in treatments for psychological disorders-an extensive agent architecture (2007)
- Why emotions should be integrated into conversational agents (2007)
- Augmenting interaction and cognition using agent architectures and technology inspired by psychology and social worlds (2006)
- Linguistic Style and Personality of Dialogue Agents (2005)
- The psychology and technology of talking heads: Applications in language learning (2005)
- Designing artificial personalities using Jungian theory (2004)
- Designing Friends (2003)
- Lessons learned in modeling schizophrenic and depressed responsive virtual humans for training (2003)
- Friendship relations with embodied conversational agents: Integrating social psychology in ECA design (2002)
- Getting personal with computers: how to design personalities for agents (1999)
See also:
- 100 Best AI Movies
- Agent Persona Instrument
- Anthropomorphism & Robots
- Artificial Consciousness
- Artificial Imagination
- Artificial Intuition
- Artificial Moral Agents (AMAs)
- Automated Personality 2018
- Avatars & Therapy 2018
- CmapTools 2017
- Computational Analogy
- Computational Dreaming Meta Guide
- Computational Propaganda 2017
- ELIZA (Joseph Weizenbaum) 2017
- ELIZA effect
- Humor Generation 2018
- Hyperreality, Extended Reality & Artificial Intelligence
- Imagination Engines
- Labyrinths, Extended Reality & Artificial Intelligence
- Loebner Prize 2018
- Lovotics
- Machine Consciousness
- Medical Coding
- Neurocinema 2017
- NSCA (Neural-Symbolic Cognitive Agent)
- openEAR 2018
- Persona Management
- Personality Engineering
- Psychographics & Natural Language
- Psychopathology & Natural Language Processing 2017
- Relational Agents
- Robopsychology Citations
- SAL (Sensitive Artificial Listener) 2017
- Semantic Compaction Systems
- SimCoach
- SimSensei
- Symbol Dictionaries & Symbol Encyclopedias
- Virtual Nurses 2018
- Virtual Reality Patient 2017
- Virtual Reality Therapy & Artificial Intelligence 2017
- Virtual Reality Treatment 2017