Mightability maps: A perceptual level decisional framework for co-operative and competitive human-robot interaction

Interestingly Humans are able to maintain rough estimations of visibility, reachability and other capabilities of not only themselves but of the person they are interacting with. Studies in neuroscience and psychology suggest that from the age of 12–15 months children start to understand the occlusion of others line-of-sight and from the age of 3 years they start to develop the ability, termed as perceived reachability for self and for others. As such capabilities evolve in the children, they start showing intuitive and proactive behavior by perceiving various abilities of the human partner.

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