Title

Soldiers, Robots And Local Population - Modeling Cross-Cultural Values In A Peacekeeping Scenario

Keywords

Human robot interaction; Social and cultural modeling

Abstract

We consider a near-future peacekeeping scenario, where a group of soldiers of various ranks and a robot interact with the local population. The goal is to quantify, analyze and predict the public perception of the soldiers and the robot. Instead of integrative statistical approaches, we develop a model which traces individual interactions. Our model assumes that human beings are considering collections of concrete and intangible values which are not, in general, directly and linearly convertible into each other. We argue that satisfactory modeling accuracy can be achieved by restricting the considered intangibles to a small set of culture sanctioned social values. For these values, the culture provides a name, calculation methods, as well as associated rules of conduct. We validate our model by comparing the predicted values with the judgment of a large group of human observers cognizant of the modeled culture. We use the model to evaluate the tradeoffs between various long term strategies to maintain security as well as to increase the trust and goodwill of the local population.

Publication Date

12-1-2012

Publication Title

21st Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2012, BRiMS 2012

Number of Pages

124-131

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84872462242 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84872462242

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