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Interactive Coordination In Joint Attention, Shaun Gallagher
Interactive Coordination In Joint Attention, Shaun Gallagher
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Joint attention is located at the intersection of a complex set of capacities that serve our cognitive, emotional, and action-oriented relations with others. In one regard, it involves social cognition, our ability to understand others, what they intend, and what their actions mean. Here there is a two-way relationship between joint attention and social cognition. On the one hand, certain social cognitive abilities allow us to enter into jointattentional situations with others; on the other hand, our engagements in joint-attentional situations with others allow us to better understand their intentions and their actions.
Towards Triadic Interactions In Autism And Beyond: Transitional Objects, Joint Attention, And Social Robotics, John Z. Elias, Patricia Bockelman Morrow, Jonathan Streater, Shaun Gallagher, Stephen M. Fiore
Towards Triadic Interactions In Autism And Beyond: Transitional Objects, Joint Attention, And Social Robotics, John Z. Elias, Patricia Bockelman Morrow, Jonathan Streater, Shaun Gallagher, Stephen M. Fiore
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The concept of transitional objects from the British Object Relations school of psychoanalysis may offer insight into the affective aspects of the development of dyadic and triadic interactions. Furthermore the concept may be applied to the use of social robotics in autism research and therapy, with social robots in these settings perhaps functioning as transitional objects for autistic children. Possible applications in organizational contexts are suggested as well, along with considerations of future research relating transitional objects to the notions of primary and secondary intersubjectivity.