A Method to Alternate the Estimation of Global Purposes and Local Objectives to Induce and Maintain the Intentional Stance

The virtual world simulation has many advantages. However, the effects of the experience strongly influence the mental stance of the participants. To establish social relationships between a human and an artificial agent, the agent has to induce and maintain the intentional stance in its human partner. The purpose of this study was to investigate the method to induce the intentional stance in human participants of one-to-one human-agent interaction by using the alternating estimation of local objectives and global purposes by a network-connected two-layer model. We conducted an experiment to evaluate effect of the proposed method. The results suggested that this method was successful in inducing and maintaining the intentional stance over time.

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