CogToM-CST: An implementation of the Theory of Mind for the Cognitive Systems Toolkit

Fabio Grassiotto, Esther Colombini, Alexandre Simões, Ricardo Gudwin, Paula Costa

2022

Abstract

This article proposes CogToM-CST, an implementation of a Theory of Mind (ToM) model using the Cognitive Systems Toolkit (CST). Psychological research establishes that ToM deficits are usually associated with mind- blindness, the inability to attribute mental states to others, a typical trait of autism. This cognitive divergence prevents the proper interpretation of other individuals’ intentions and beliefs in a given scenario, typically resulting in social interaction problems. Inspired by the psychological Theory of Mind model proposed by Baron-Cohen, this paper presents a computational implementation exploring the usefulness of the common concepts in Robotics, such as Affordances, Positioning, and Intention Detection, to augment the effectiveness of the proposed architecture. We verify the results by evaluating both a canonical False-Belief task and a subset of tasks from the Facebook bAbI dataset.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Grassiotto F., Colombini E., Simões A., Gudwin R. and Costa P. (2022). CogToM-CST: An implementation of the Theory of Mind for the Cognitive Systems Toolkit. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-547-0, pages 462-469. DOI: 10.5220/0010836300003116

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart22,
author={Fabio Grassiotto and Esther Colombini and Alexandre Simões and Ricardo Gudwin and Paula Costa},
title={CogToM-CST: An implementation of the Theory of Mind for the Cognitive Systems Toolkit},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART,},
year={2022},
pages={462-469},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010836300003116},
isbn={978-989-758-547-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART,
TI - CogToM-CST: An implementation of the Theory of Mind for the Cognitive Systems Toolkit
SN - 978-989-758-547-0
AU - Grassiotto F.
AU - Colombini E.
AU - Simões A.
AU - Gudwin R.
AU - Costa P.
PY - 2022
SP - 462
EP - 469
DO - 10.5220/0010836300003116