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that adapts theories, concepts, and models from psychology, social development, ethology,
and evolutionary perspectives. The result is a synthetic nervous system that is responsible for
generating the observable behavior of the robot and for regulating the robot’s internal state
of “well-being.” To evaluate the performance of both the robot and the human, I introduced
a set of evaluation criteria for interact-ability. Throughout the book, I will present a set of
studies with naive human subjects that provide the data for our evaluations. In the following
chapter,Ibeginmyin-depthpresentationofKismetstartingwithadescriptionofthephysical
robot and its computational platform.
