Task 1.1 completed

The extensive literature review has been completed and submitted as deliverable D1.1. This task was led by UDE. Comprised of two major parts, namely an interdisciplinary review on “human sociality” aspects and a review on long-term relationships, the text is intended to provide insights into aspects of human-human communication and human-robot/agent communication that are relevant for the SERA project. In doing this, the first part is subdivided into micro-, meso- and macro-models and covers several prerequisites for human communication: verbal and nonverbal behaviour, the need to belong, common ground, perspective taking and theory of mind. The part on macro-levels features some sociological frameworks for interactions (e.g. affect control theory, identity control theory) and introduces systems theory. The second part of this literature review goes into detail about available systems (e.g. Valerie, Pleo, Paro, Nabaztag:tag) and covers a variety of experiments and results on social effects and longterm relationships. Furthermore, in a chapter on methodology, open and closed research questions and methods are explained in detail and examples related to the exploration of several aspects of robots/agents and human-robot/agent interaction are given. Finally, the document provides a summary with implications for the SERA project.