TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - Human theory of mind inference in search and rescue tasks JO - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society annual meeting A1 - Li, Huao A1 - Zheng, Keyang A1 - Lewis, Michael A1 - Hughes, Dana A1 - Sycara, Katia SP - 648 EP - 652 VL - 65 IS - 1 N2 - 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

LA - en SN - 2169-5067 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181321651269 ID - ref1 ER -