Social Robots from a Human Perspective (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Vincent, Jane; Fortunati, Leopoldina; Lugano, Giuseppe; Sapio, Bartolomeo; Taipale, Sakari

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319156729
• Artikelnr.: 43783406

Autorenporträt

Jane Vincent, Ph.D., Jane Vincent is Senior Research Fellow at the LSE Media and Communications Department and Visiting Fellow with the Digital World Research Centre at the University of Surrey. She researches the social practices of mobile communications and ICT users. Her studies for industry and international academic organizations on the social shaping of technology, children's and older peoples' use of mobile phones are published widely and Jane's work on emotions and mobile phones is published in English, German and Russian. >Bartolomeo Sapio, Ph.D., holds a Doctor Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering summa cum laude at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He is a senior researcher and project manager with Fondazione Ugo Bordon participating in several international projects. He has carried out methodological research in the field of scenario analysis, developing the original methods WISE, SEARCH and GIMMICKS, and applying them to multimedia, broadband networks, the Internet, mobile services and the convergence between fixed and mobile networks. He designedand implemented SIMULAB (Scenario-engineering Interactive Multimedia LABoratory), an advanced work environment to carry out research activities in the field of Scenario Engineering. He was Chairman of COST (COoperation in the field of Scientific and Technical research) Action 298 "Participation in the Broadband Society", and a member in the Management Committees of COST Action IS0605 "A Telecommunications Economics COST Network - Econ@Tel" and COST Action A22 "Foresight methodologies - Exploring new ways to explore the future", where he chaired the Working Group "Integrating Narratives and Numbers". He is currently the coordinator of an EU-funded project carried out within the Seventh Framework Programme: CUMULUS (Certification infrastrUcture for MUlti-Layer cloUd Services). >Giuseppe Lugano, Ph.D., works in Brussels as Science Officer for COST, the longest-running European framework for cooperation in science and technology. He holds a MSc degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Cognitive Science. His publications and research interests deal with theconceptual design of technologies and services for community and sustainable living.

Inhaltsangabe

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.