Sam Thellman
My PhD work focuses on the role of the intentional stance — i.e., people’s common-sense or intuitive understanding of others as agents with beliefs, desires, and other so called "intentional states" — in human-robot interactions. My research aims to elucidate some of the challenges or difficulties associated with predicting and explaining the behavior of robots based on the intentional stance, and to develop appropriate methodology for studying the intentional stance toward robots empirically.
