The article ‘Towards Operationalizing Social Bonding in Human-Robot Dyads’ by Imran Khan explores the concept of social bonding in human-robot interactions. It discusses potential biobehavioral proxies of social bonding, moving away from subjective, psychological measures, and instead focusing on evolutionary, neurobiological, and physiological correlates of social bond formation. The author proposes three main components: reductions in physiological stress, narrowing of spatial proximity between dyads, and inter-dyad behavioural synchrony. The aim is to inspire more robust operationalisation of social bonding between human and artificial agents.
Publication date: 18 Oct 2023
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.11386
