Citation

Li H, Zheng K, Lewis M, Hughes D, Sycara K. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2021; 65(1): 648-652.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1071181321651269

PMID

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Abstract

The ability to make inferences about other's mental state is referred to as having a Theory of Mind (ToM). Such ability is the foundation of many human social interactions such as empathy, teamwork, and communication. As intelligent agents being involved in diverse human-agent teams, they are also expected to be socially intelligent to become effective teammates. To provide a feasible baseline for future social intelligent agents, this paper presents a experimental study on the process of human ToM reference. Human observers' inferences are compared with participants' verbally reported mental state in a simulated search and rescue task.

RESULTS show that ToM inference is a challenging task even for experienced human observers.

Language: en