The Future of Humans and Emotional Machines : Narratives from Japanese Culture in the 21st Century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giannoulis, Elena.

Series:

Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2025.

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This book explores human-machine interaction in Japan, providing a new focus on how and in what form people build affective bonds to new technologies.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

About the Contributors

1 Introduction: Astro Boy's Grandchildren-of Longing, Disappointment, and New Heroes in Japan

Part I: The Family Album of Emotional Machines: Pepper and His Successors

2 Representations of Emotional Capacity in Human-Robot Interaction: From Astro Boy to Pepper

3 Character, Desire,Infrastructure: Manga/Anime Fandom Preceding and Predicting technological Experimentation in Japan

4 Characteristics of Artificial Intelligence in Japan

Part II: Between Promises and Realities: A Critique of Popular Media and Public Narrative

5 Hearts Meet Wires: Navigating the Ethical and Social Implications of Care Robotics

6 On Posthuman Imaginaries and Japanese Robot Culture: A Techno-Oriental Strand of Cruel Optimism

7 Human-Machine Relations From Abacus to AI in the Sanrio Anime Aggressive Retsuko (Aggretsuko)

8 An Anthropological View of Social Robots: Ontological Indefiniteness and the Subjective Experience of Care Technologies in Japan

Part III: Inheriting Human Problems: Negotiating Dreams, Fears, and Gender

9 Kawaii Aesthetics in Human-Machine Romance: Reimagining Gender, Cuteness, and Digital Intimacy in A.I. Love You (2016)

10 Reframing Socio-Cultural Malaise in the Technocene: A Psychosocial Reading of Abe Kōbō's Inter Ice Age 4 and Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun

Part IV: Blurring Boundaries: Where Does the Human End, Where Does the Machine Begin?

11 Beyond an Ontological Divide: Possiblities of Emotional Connections Between Humans and Androids in Shūkō Murase's Ergo Proxy

12 The Obsolescence of Robot Commodity and Human-Machine Relationship: The Case of Two Anime

13 OriHime Robot Avatars, Affect, and Performance.

Digression I: Artistic Visions on Human‑Machine Attachments

14 My Robot, Blurting Out

15 Humans and AI Humans-on Ambiguity and Change

Digression II: The Impact of the Popular Imaginary on Robotics Engineering in Japan

16 We Can Expect the Relationship Between Humans and Robots to be of a Different kind From That Between Humans

17 Behavior that Complements Humans is an Essential Characteristic of Social Agents

18 By Creating Communication Robots, I Would like to Ensure That There are no People who Feel Socially Isolated

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-003-57065-8

1-04-041992-5

9781003570653

OCLC:

1530377188

Publisher Number:

CIPO000233305