Title
Robots and communication / Eleanor Sandry.
ISBN
9781137468376 (electronic bk.)
1137468378 (electronic bk.)
9781349500239 (print)
Published
[Basingstoke] : Palgrave Pivot, 2015.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 129 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
TJ211.49
Dewey Decimal Classification
629.8/924019
Summary
"Robots and Communication" examines human-robot interactions as models of communication. Robots are intriguing communicators because they are created in such a variety of forms. Some are built to appear humanlike, while others are not humanlike in any way, with many different designs existing in the continuum between these extremes. In order to explore human interactions with robots from across this range -- from familiar to radically other -- this book employs a range of different communication theories and considers how each of them provides a different perspective on what happens when humans and robots meet and interact. The analysis of a variety of human-robot interactions also allows this book to take its findings full circle, to suggest new ways to think about what communication, and being a communicator, entails. Its argument therefore has implications not only for human-robot interaction design, but also for human communication theory and practice more generally.
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PART I: FROM DATA TO DOGS
1. Designing Robots to Communicate with Humans
2. Human-Animal Communication
PART II: COMMUNICATING WITH NON-HUMANOID ROBOTS
3. Encountering Otherness
4. Stories and Dances
5. Collaboration and Trust
PART III: RETHINKING ROBOTS AND COMMUNICATION
6. Humans, Animals and Machines
7. Communication, Individuals and Systems
Conclusion.
