Workshop on Interaction, Communication and Mental Coordination: How Social Understanding Develops

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Conference Talk: "The ethical dimension of interaction and its significance for social understanding"Abstract: The ethical dimension of interaction concerns interpersonal values that both constrain how agents address each other and enable them to connect, such as respect, autonomy, interest, reciprocity, responsiveness, care, and responsibility. The emphasis on emotion experience in recent research on interaction tends to overshadow the value-realizing aspects of interactivity. Apparently, regulators of social interaction such as emotion display, rules or conventions, and contextual cues cannot compensate for the absence of interpersonal values. Thus, studies of implicit and explicit determinants of human-robot interaction indicate that the ethical dimension is of decisive import for the quality and quantity of interaction and a person’s willingness to engage. Philosophers and psychologists alike have suggested that mutual recognition lies at the core of the ethical dimension. I will discuss a few examples of how mutual recognition may emerge and manifest itself taken from studies on human-robot and infant-adult interaction and compare with the case when the interpersonal element is missing from interaction. Elsewhere, we have argued that recognition constitutes the gateway to engagement (Brinck & Balkenius 2019). I will finish by briefly considering what this might mean concerning the development of social understanding in society today, characterized by automation and digitalization.

Period	2021 Apr 16
Event type	Workshop
Location	Krakow, PolandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International