Soon, robots will leave the factories and make their way into living rooms, supermarkets, and care facilities. They will cooperate with humans in everyday life, taking on more than just practical tasks. How should they communicate with us? Do they need eyes, a screen, or arms? Should they resemble humans? Or may they enrich social situations precisely because they act so differently from humans?
Meaningful Futures with Robots: Designing a New Coexistence provides insight into the opportunities and risks that arise from living with robots in the future, anchored in current research projects on everyday robotics. As well as generating ideas for robot developers and designers, it also critically discusses existing theories and methods for social robotics from different perspectives - ethical, design, artistical and technological – and presents new approaches to meaningful human-robot interaction design.
Key Features:
- Provides insights into current research on robots from different disciplinary angles with a particular focus on a value-driven design.
- Includes contributions from designers, psychologists, engineers, philosophers, artists, and legal scholars, among others.
Author(s): Judith Dörrenbächer, Ronda Ringfort-Felner, Robin Neuhaus, Marc Hassenzahl
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series
Publisher: CRC Press/Chapman & Hall
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 291
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Author
Contents
Introduction
Towards Designing Meaningful Relationships with Robots
Concept and Content of the Book
Part 1: Designing a New Species—Interaction Design and Product Design of Robots
How to Design Robots with Superpowers
Social Robots Should Mediate, Not Replace, Social Interactions
Neither Human nor Computer—A Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaboration in Autism Therapy
Counting Characters and Spaces—On Robot Disabilities, Robot Care, and Technological Dependencies
Designing Robots with Personality
Designing Robots as Social Counterparts—A Discussion about a Technology Claiming its Own Needs
Falling in Love with a Machine—What Happens if the Only Affection a Person Gets is from Machines?
I am Listening to You!—How to Make Different Robotic Species Speak the Same Language
How to Really Get in Touch with Robots—Haptic Interaction Technologies for VR and Teleoperation
Part 2: Designing Future Environments—Social Innovation Initiated by Robots
Design Fiction—The Future of Robots Needs Imagination
Cramer’s Funeral Service for Androids
Googly Eyes
Empathizing with Robots—Animistic and Performative Methods to Anticipate a Robot's Impact
From the Lab to a Real-World Supermarket—Anticipating the Chances and Challenges of a Shopping Robot
Dominant, Persuasive or Polite?—Human Curiosity, Provocative Users and Solving Conflicts between Humans and Robots
Seven Observations, or Why Domestic Robots are Struggling to Enter the Habitats of Everyday Life
Is this a Patient or a Wall?—Adapting Robots from an Industrial Context to a Rehabilitation Clinic
Robotics x Book Studies—Imagining a Robotic Archive of Embodied Knowledge
“That’s the Future, I’m Telling you.”
A Visual Commentary on Robots
Part 3: Designing Together with People—Civic Participation and Ethical Implications Concerning Robots
Citizen Participation in Social Robotics Research
Learning from Each Other—How Roboticists Learn from Users and How Users Teach Their Robots
My Friend Simsala, the Robot
Move Away from the Stereotypical User in the Picture-Perfect Scenario—A Plea for Early and Broad User Integration
Is it Good?—A Philosophical Approach towards Ethics-Centered Design
Are Robots Good at Everything? A Robot in an Elementary School
The Medium has a Message—Educational Robots in a Didactic Triangle
The Friendly Siblings of Workhorses and Killer Robots—Becoming Alive through the Nonliving, and Feeling Blessed by a Religious Machine
Appendix
Designing with Algorithms—Reflections Based on the Book’s Design
Biographies
Index
