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CAVAA is an international multidisciplinary project involving universities all around Europe. Its aim is to create an artificial awareness, building an architecture that can show awareness similar to that of biological entities. This includes understanding and responding to the environment, recognizing actions, and demonstrating social awareness.
A significant phase of this project will involve implementing this artificial awareness architecture using the mimetic robot MiRo as its animal-like design makes it an ideal platform for testing social interactions and aware behaviours in a physical context.
At the University of Sheffield, we are playing a key role in the project by developing tools to measure awareness attribution; that is to say, how humans perceive the awareness of artificial entities like robots. Our team is creating a set of tests and scales to understand how people attribute awareness to robots. The tools we are developing will then be applied to evaluate how well MiRo can demonstrate awareness from the perspective of our participants.
Hey MiRo! 