Loving Machines: Theorizing Human and Sociable-Technology Interaction

Shaw-Garlock, Glenda

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“…Shawn Garlock mentioned that "Duffy points out that from the point of view of social robotics, it doesn't really matter whether or not a particular robot genuinely possesses a sense of personal agency, intention, or self awareness. What matters most is our perception of their emotionality and intelligence" [15]. We posit that the response of our respondents suggests that even if there were emotional abilities due to programming, our respondents would still not accept a truly autonomous and uncontrolled robot.…”

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“…"Social robots are technologies designed to engage with humans on an emotional level through play, sometimes therapeutic play, and perhaps even companionship" [15]. Robotherapy is a field in robotics that tries to apply the principles of social robotics to improve the psychological and physiological state of people with disabilities [36].…”

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“…Social robots are complex machines that are envisioned to engage in meaningful social interaction with humans and with each other [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. As health care robots they are envisioned to be involved in post-stroke motivation to do exercises (rehabilitation) [16], teaching people with Autism to recognize social cues, facial expressions, eye contact, etc.…”

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Social Robots: Views of Staff of a Disability Service Organization

Wolbring

Yumakulov

2014

Int J of Soc Robotics

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Social robotics is an emerging field, with many applications envisioned for people with disabilities. This project examined the so far invisible views of disability service organization workers towards social robotics. Because community service workers' views shape community-based rehabilitation (an area of health interventions that focuses on social determinants), it is important to examine their views towards social robotics applications which are largely developed under a clinical/medical view of disability. We administered a survey to employees of a Saskatchewan disability service organization. Out of 44 respondents, 80 % were female, most aged 21-65 years. Robotics applications perceived to be important included domestic robots, and rehabilitation robots. Least important applications included eldercare robots, companion robots, and pet robots. Most participants felt that robots cannot replace human touch, human interaction, or emotional companionship, and that they cannot/should not replace human workers in the disability setting. Many expressed concerns about safety, normality for disabled people, and artificial interactions. Respondents also had views on whether a social robot can be a bully or could be bullied. We submit that the perspectives our respondents exhibited might be useful to consider in the development of social robots for applications around disability in order to ensure acceptable and relevant products.

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Social Robots: Views of Staff of a Disability Service Organization

Wolbring

Yumakulov

2014

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…How ought we to evaluate these competing visions? As Glenda Shaw-Garlock notes, "there is need for methodological and theoretical perspectives that enable us to think through techno-cultural hybrid configurations of people and machines" [17]. In this section, I argue that in developing such a perspective, we might learn a thing or two from the original relational artifact, television.…”

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Learning to be human with sociable robots

Weiss

2020

Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics

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AbstractThis essay examines the debate over the status of sociable robots and relational artifacts through the prism of our relationship to television. In their work on human-technology relations, Cynthia Breazeal and Sherry Turkle have staked out starkly different assessments. Breazeal’s work on sociable robots suggests that these technological artifacts will be human helpmates and sociable companions. Sherry Turkle argues that such relational artifacts seduce us into simulated relationships with technological others that largely serve to exploit our emotional vulnerabilities and undermine authentic human relationships. Drawing on an analysis of the television as our first relational artifact and on the AMC television show Humans, this essay argues that in order to intervene in this debate we need a multimediated theory of technology that situates our technical artifacts in the domestic realm and examines their impact on those populations especially impacted by such technologies, including women, children, and the elderly. It is only then that we will be able to take the full measure of the impact of such sociable technologies on our being human.

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“…Obviously, this requires that care professionals have the ability to instruct patients about the technology and to familiarise them with its use. Dealing with robotic technology therefore opens a new chapter in the training of caregivers, so that caregivers may easily cope with it and anticipate the possibilities and limitations of robotic technologies (see also [80]. The entire deployment of care technologies should be re-examined in the context of both practice and policy.…”

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A Literature Review on New Robotics: Automation from Love to War

Royakkers

Est

2015

Int J of Soc Robotics

138

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This article investigates the social significance of robotics for the years to come in Europe and the US by studying robotics developments in five different areas: the home, health care, traffic, the police force, and the army. Our society accepts the use of robots to perform dull, dangerous, and dirty industrial jobs. But now that robotics is moving out of the factory, the relevant question is how far do we want to go with the automation of care for children and the elderly, of killing terrorists, or of making love? This literature review attempts to provide an engaged but sober (non-speculative) insight into the societal issues raised by the new robotics: which robot technologies are coming; what are they capable of; and which ethical and regulatory questions will they consequently raise?

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Loving Machines: Theorizing Human and Sociable-Technology Interaction

Cited by 16 publications

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Social Robots: Views of Staff of a Disability Service Organization

Social Robots: Views of Staff of a Disability Service Organization

Learning to be human with sociable robots

A Literature Review on New Robotics: Automation from Love to War

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