The Perceptual Belief Problem

The explainability of robotic systems depends on people’s ability to reliably attribute perceptual beliefs robots, i.e., what robots know (or believe) about objects and events in the world based their perception. However, are not necessarily well understood by majority people interacting with them. In this article, we explain why is a significant, difficult, unique problem social robotics. inability judge robot knows (and does know) physical environment it shares gives rise host communicative interactive issues, including difficulties communicate or adapt environment. challenge faced robotics researchers designers who want facilitate appropriate attributions shape human–robot interactions so that understand To meet challenge, argue, necessary advance our knowledge when form incorrect inadequate mental models robots’ cognitive mechanisms. We outline general approach studying empirically discuss potential solutions problem.