Meaningful futures with robots : : designing a new coexistence / / edited by Judith Dörrenbächer [and three others].

• Superior document: Chapman and Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Ser.
• TeilnehmendeR: Dörrenbächer, Judith,
• Place / Publishing House: Boca Raton, Florida : : CRC Press,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Chapman and Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 pages)

Meaningful Futures with Robots: Designing a New Coexistence provides insight into the opportunities and risks that arise from living with robots in the future, anchored in current research projects on everyday robotics.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- About the Author -- Contents -- Introduction -- Towards Designing Meaningful Relationships with Robots -- Concept and Content of the Book -- Part 1: Designing a New Species-Interaction Design and Product Design of Robots -- How to Design Robots with Superpowers -- Social Robots Should Mediate, Not Replace, Social Interactions -- Neither Human nor Computer-A Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaboration in Autism Therapy -- Counting Characters and Spaces-On Robot Disabilities, Robot Care, and Technological Dependencies -- Designing Robots with Personality -- Designing Robots as Social Counterparts-A Discussion about a Technology Claiming its Own Needs -- Falling in Love with a Machine-What Happens if the Only Affection a Person Gets is from Machines? -- I am Listening to You!-How to Make Different Robotic Species Speak the Same Language -- How to Really Get in Touch with Robots-Haptic Interaction Technologies for VR and Teleoperation -- Part 2: Designing Future Environments-Social Innovation Initiated by Robots -- Design Fiction-The Future of Robots Needs Imagination -- Cramer's Funeral Service for Androids -- Googly Eyes -- Empathizing with Robots-Animistic and Performative Methods to Anticipate a Robot's Impact -- From the Lab to a Real-World Supermarket-Anticipating the Chances and Challenges of a Shopping Robot -- Dominant, Persuasive or Polite?-Human Curiosity, Provocative Users and Solving Conflicts between Humans and Robots -- Seven Observations, or Why Domestic Robots are Struggling to Enter the Habitats of Everyday Life -- Is this a Patient or a Wall?-Adapting Robots from an Industrial Context to a Rehabilitation Clinic -- Robotics x Book Studies-Imagining a Robotic Archive of Embodied Knowledge -- "That's the Future, I'm Telling you." -- A Visual Commentary on Robots.

Part 3: Designing Together with People-Civic Participation and Ethical Implications Concerning Robots -- Citizen Participation in Social Robotics Research -- Learning from Each Other-How Roboticists Learn from Users and How Users Teach Their Robots -- My Friend Simsala, the Robot -- Move Away from the Stereotypical User in the Picture-Perfect Scenario-A Plea for Early and Broad User Integration -- Is it Good?-A Philosophical Approach towards Ethics-Centered Design -- Are Robots Good at Everything? A Robot in an Elementary School -- The Medium has a Message-Educational Robots in a Didactic Triangle -- The Friendly Siblings of Workhorses and Killer Robots-Becoming Alive through the Nonliving, and Feeling Blessed by a Religious Machine -- Appendix -- Designing with Algorithms-Reflections Based on the Book's Design -- Biographies -- Index.