Close engagements with artificial companions : key social, psychological, ethical and design issues / edited by Yorick Wilks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilks, Yorick, 1939-2023.

Series:

Natural language processing ; 8.

Natural language processing, 1567-8202 ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-computer interaction.

Natural language processing (Computer science).

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The COMPANIONS project, which inspired this book, is studying conversational software-based artificial agents that will get to know their owners over a substantial period. These could be developed to advise, comfort and carry out a wide range of functions to support diverse personal and social needs, such as to be 'artificial Companions' for the elderly, helping their owners to learn, or assisting to sustain their owners' fitness and health. This chapter summarizes the main issues raised in the workshop that gave rise to this book. Most direct quotes from participants in this chapter come from their own chapters. Appendix 1 contains examples of current artificial Companions and related research projects mentioned at the workshop.

Contents:

Section I. Setting the scene: In good company? On the threshold of robotic companions / Sherry Turkle

Introducing artificial Companions / Yorick Wilks

Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues: Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges / Luciano Floridi

Conditions for Companionhood / Stephen G. Pulman

Arius in cyberspace: Digital Companions and the limits of the person / Kieron O'Hara

Section III. Social and psychological issues: What should a Companion be like?: Conversationalists and confidants / Margaret A. Boden

Robots should be slaves / Joanna J. Bryson

Wanting the impossible: The dilemma at the heart of intimate human-robot relationships / Dylan Evans

Falling in love with a Companion / David Levy

Identifying your accompanist / Will Lowe

Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion / Daniela M. Romano

New Companions / Alex Taylor, Anab Jain and Laurel Swan

On being a Victorian Companion / Yorick Wilks

Section IV. Design issues: Building a Companion: The use of affective and attentive cues in an empathic computer-based Companions / Nikolaus Bee...(et al)

GRETA: Towards an interactive conversational virtual Companion / Elisabetta Bevacqua...(et al)

Companionship is an emotional business / Roddy Cowie

Artificial Companions in society: Consulting the users / Alan Newell

Requirements for Artificial Companions: It's harder than you think / Aaron Sloman

You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you / Alan FT Winfield

Section V. Special purpose Companions: A Companion for learning in everyday life / Rebecca Eynon and Chris Davies

The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion / Sergei Nirenburg

Living with robots: Ethical tradeoffs in eldercare / Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey

Section VI. Afterward: Summary and discussion of the issues / Malcom Peltu and Yorick Wilks.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612558610

9781282558618

1282558617

9789027288400

9027288402

OCLC:

649903424