Designing robots, designing humans / edited by Cathrine Hasse and Dorte Marie Søndergaard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hasse, Cathrine, editor.

Søndergaard, Dorte Marie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-robot interaction.

Robotics--Human factors.

Robotics.

Robots--Social aspects.

Robots.

Physical Description:

ix, 148 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

Whilst most research concentrates on the imagined future of robotics, this book brings together a group of international researchers to explore the different ways that robots and humans engage with one another at this point in history--back cover.

Contents:

1 Gotai: corporeal aesthetics and robotic exoskeletons in Japan p. 5 / Jennifer Robertson

2 On humanoids, avatars and the rest of us: gender and designing our new Others p. 21 / Dorte Marie Søndergaard

3 Performing the kitchen: becoming a queering witness to the enactments of subject-object relations in a robotic kitchen lab p. 40 / Pat Treusch

4 The automation of ethics: the case of self-driving cars p. 55 / Raffaele Rodogno and Marco Nørskov

5 'Active citizenship' and feeding assistive robotics: a crumbling story? p. 73 / Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen

6 Material concept formation: inequality in children's conceptual robot imaginaries p. 88 / Cathrine Hasse

7 Unpacking the cultural baggage of travelling robots: how socially assistive robots are integrated in practice p. 111 / Lasse Blond and Finn Olesen

8 Robot companions for children and older people: ethical issues and evidence p. 132 / Amanda Sharkey and Natalie Wood and Raihah Aminuddin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415786560

0415786568

9780415786577

0415786576

OCLC:

1096215160