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Title
Social robots from a human perspective [electronic resource] / Jane Vincent, Sakari Taipale, Bartolomeo Sapio, Giuseppe Lugano, Leopoldina Fortunati, editors.
ISBN
9783319156729 electronic book
3319156721 electronic book
9783319156712
Published
Cham : Springer, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 144 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-15672-9 doi
Call Number
TJ211.49
Dewey Decimal Classification
629.8/924019
Summary
Addressing several issues that explore the human side of social robots, this book asks from a social and human scientific perspective what a social robot is and how we might come to think about social robots in the different areas of everyday life. Organized around three sections that deal with Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Robots, Human Interaction with Social Robots, and Social Robots in Everyday Life, the book explores the idea that even if technical problems related to robot technologies can be continuously solved from a machine perspective, what kind of machine do we want to have and use in our daily lives? Experiences from previously widely adopted technologies, such smartphones, hint that robot technologies could potentially be absorbed into the everyday lives of humans in such a way that it is the human that determines the human-machine interaction. In a similar way to how today?s information and communication technologies were first designed for professional/industrial use, but which soon were commercialised for the mass market and then personalised by humans in the daily practices of use, the use of social robots is now facing the same revolution of ?domestication?. In this transformation, which involves the profound embedding of robots in the everyday life, the ?human? aspect of a social robot will have a key role to play. This book casts light on this burning issue, which is one of the central topics that will be taught and studied in universities worldwide and that will be discussed widely, publicly and repeatedly in the near future. The book makes a comprehensive overview of the human dimension of social robots by discussing both transnational features and national specificities.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 13, 2015).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319156712
Introduction: Situating the Human in Social Robots
Robot Shift from Industrial Production to Social Reproduction
In the Company of Robots: Views of Acceptability of Robots in Social Settings
Perception, Acceptance and the Social Construction of Robots
Exploratory Studies
Social Robotics in Health Care Service: The Case of Rehabilitation Programmes in Hong Kong
Intuitive Interaction between Humans and Robots in Work Functions at Industrial Environments: The Role of Social Robotics
Minimizing the Human? Functional Reductions of Complexity in Social Robotics and their Cybernetic Heritage
Open Sourcing Social Robotics: Humanoid Artifacts from the Viewpoint of Designers
The Mobile Phone: An Emotionalised Social Robot
The Technologicalization of Education in China: A Case Study of the Home?School Communication System
Fashion Tech and Robotics
Conclusions.
