Ken Prepin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ken Prepin plays a role.
Articles
2010 GRETA: Towards an interactive conversational virtual Companion Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 143–156 | Article
In this chapter we present our work toward building a conversational Companion. Conversing with partner(s) means to being able to express one’s mental and emotional state, to be a speaker or a listener. One needs also to adapt to ones partner’s reactions to what one is saying. We have developed an… read more
2007 Experiencing contingency and agency: First step toward self-understanding in making a mind? Making Minds: The shaping of human minds through social context, Hauf, Petra and Friedrich Försterling (eds.), pp. 227–240 | Article
Precursors of inferential capacities concerning self- and other- understanding may be found in the basic experience of social contingency and emotional sharing. The emergence of a sense of self- and other-agency receives special attention here, as a foundation for self-understanding. We propose… read more
2005 Experiencing contingency and agency: First step toward self-understanding in making a mind? Making Minds II, Hauf, Petra (ed.), pp. 447–462 | Article
Precursors of inferential capacities concerning self- and other- understanding may be found in the basic experience of social contingency and emotional sharing. The emergence of a sense of self- and other-agency receives special attention here, as a foundation for self-understanding. We propose… read more