Destruction, Catharsis, and Emotional Release in Human-Robot Interaction

Luria, Michal; Sheriff, Ophir; Boo, Marian; Forlizzi, Jodi; Zoran, Amit

doi:10.1145/3385007

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“…Clarke talked to the familiars to issue them commands, ask them questions: did she essentially have a smart home? The ideas of familiars have interesting parallels with current technology, and provide a frame to think about voice assistants, AI, chatbots, and even 'pet' metaphors for domestic robots [74,76].…”

Section: Thinking With Witches' Familiarsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spooky Technology

Byrne

Lockton

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Our everyday technologies could have appeared terrifying to our ancestors: instantaneous disembodied communication, access to knowledge, objects with 'intelligence' that talk to us (and each other). Black boxes and intangible entities are omnipresent in our homes and lives without our necessarily understanding the hidden flows of data, unknown agendas, imaginary clouds, and mysterious rules that govern them. Have humanity's ways of relating to the unknown throughout history gone away, or have they perhaps transmuted into new forms?In an ongoing project, we have inventoried examples, encounters and reflections on contemporary technology, framed through the perspective of the haunted, spectral and otherworldly. In this paper, we excerpt this collection to illustrate the value and opportunity of an unfamiliar, disquieting perspective in helping to frame the frictions, beliefs and myths that are emerging around interactions with everyday technologies. We posit and demonstrate 'spooky technology' as an accessible framework to reflect and respond to our increasingly entangled relationships with technology.

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Section: Thinking With Witches' Familiarsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spooky Technology

Byrne

Lockton

et al. 2022

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“…Given these problems, the HRI field has begun to adopt speculative and critical design approaches that explore the use of metaphors, more or less explicitly, to challenge robot assumptions. Concepts like 'neediness' [21], 'domestication' [4], 'destruction' [42], and 'citizenship' [41] have been particularly used to broaden the HRI discourse beyond utilitarian values and mimetic approaches. In 'Technological Dream Series: No.…”

Section: Metaphors Challenging Human-robot Interaction Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Through the concept of destruction, Luria et al [42] opened a dialogue about the robot lifecycle and values beyond utilitarian role. By being inherently connected to the process of creation, the concept of destruction lead us to consider the possible symbolic meaning of robot materiality.…”

Section: Metaphors Challenging Human-robot Interaction Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collection of Metaphors for Human-Robot Interaction

Alves‐Oliveira

Lupetti

Luria

et al. 2021

Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

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The word "robot" frequently conjures unrealistic expectations of utilitarian perfection: tireless, efficient, and flawless agents. However, real-world robots are far from perfect-they fail and make mistakes. Thus, roboticists should consider altering their current assumptions and cultivating new perspectives that account for a more complete range of robot roles, behaviors, and interactions. To encourage this, we explore the use of metaphors for generating novel ideas and reframing existing problems, eliciting new perspectives of human-robot interaction. Our work makes two contributions. We (1) surface current assumptions that accompany the term "robots," and (2) present a collection of alternative perspectives of interaction with robots through metaphors. By identifying assumptions, we provide a comprehensible list of aspects to reconsider regarding robots' physicality, roles, and behaviors. Through metaphors, we propose new ways of examining how we can use, relate to, and co-exist with the robots that will share our future.

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“…These results are limited by the speculative, exploratory approach. As noted, the current article was not intended to provide some final answer as to how robots can interact with people in an emotional and creative way; rather, the aim was to explore some early stage ideas for such a design and stimulate discussion that could aid the design of a variety of future systems, as in some previous articles that have followed a speculative design approach (DiSalvo et al, 2003;Luria et al, 2020). In the experiment conducted, a wide range of cultures and nationalities was represented, the sample range in age was large, and the numbers of female and male participants were unequal.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Workmentioning

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Robot Art, in the Eye of the Beholder?: Personalized Metaphors Facilitate Communication of Emotions and Creativity

Cooney

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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Socially assistive robots are being designed to support people’s well-being in contexts such as art therapy where human therapists are scarce, by making art together with people in an appropriate way. A challenge is that various complex and idiosyncratic concepts relating to art, like emotions and creativity, are not yet well understood. Guided by the principles of speculative design, the current article describes the use of a collaborative prototyping approach involving artists and engineers to explore this design space, especially in regard to general and personalized art-making strategies. This led to identifying a goal: to generate representational or abstract art that connects emotionally with people’s art and shows creativity. For this, an approach involving personalized “visual metaphors” was proposed, which balances the degree to which a robot’s art is influenced by interacting persons. The results of a small user study via a survey provided further insight into people’s perceptions: the general design was perceived as intended and appealed; as well, personalization via representational symbols appeared to lead to easier and clearer communication of emotions than via abstract symbols. In closing, the article describes a simplified demo, and discusses future challenges. Thus, the contribution of the current work lies in suggesting how a robot can seek to interact with people in an emotional and creative way through personalized art; thereby, the aim is to stimulate ideation in this promising area and facilitate acceptance of such robots in everyday human environments.

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Destruction, Catharsis, and Emotional Release in Human-Robot Interaction

Cited by 29 publications

References 53 publications

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