The Comparative Minds research group is proud to announce a new publication in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans (Elsevier).

Primatology as an Integrative Framework to Study Social Robots

As social robots are becoming more and more common, and used in a more and more diverse range or settings, understanding the dynamics of human-robot and robot-robot interactions will emerge as one of the greatest research challenges in psychology over the coming decades. Yet, current research on human-robot interactions and on robots’ psychology is facing several major issues. The most important of these issues is arguably the lack of integrative frameworks to study these interactions, and thus, a dramatic lack of interoperability of research findings and conclusions. Putting robots in the continuity of humans, we will propose here to consider robots as an emerging form of technological primates. Doing so, we will suggest that primatology offers a promising unifying framework for studying robot psychology. This approach could enhance both current and future understanding of human-robot and robot-robot interactions, addressing gaps in current methodologies and providing new avenues for research.

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