Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Future intelligent virtual co-robots, or cobots, will work as extensions of the human mind and body in creative cognitivetasks, such as design, invention, or creation of art. Because these tasks depend on emotional attitudes, the cobot needsto maintain a social-emotional contact with the user. This can be achieved based on a cognitive architecture, in whichthe current emotional state of the user is represented in a two-dimensional weak semantic map. Cobot action selectionis determined by this state, the action appraisal, and the currently active M-schema. Main results include a significantlyhigher quality of the outcome, compared to the control condition, without a semantic map. It is remarkable that one andthe same cognitive model proves useful in various domains, including creative assistants of a choreographer, a composer,a designer, and an insight problem solver. The work yields preliminary results that suggest many potential practicalapplications. This research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation Grant # 18-11-00336.