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Social Robots: Technological, Societal and Ethical Aspects of Human-Robot Interaction

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This edited academic book provides a comprehensive overview of social robots, covering underlying technologies such as motion tracking and emotion recognition alongside application areas from industrial collaboration to healthcare and education. It incorporates interdisciplinary user studies and discussions on present and future ethical challenges in human-robot interaction. Published in 2019, the text serves as a compendium and guideline for navigating the design space of social robotics.

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Who issued it

SpringerIndustry

Publisher

Offenburg University of Applied SciencesAcademic

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Under whose authorityInstitutional policy

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Who it governs

Researchers and academicsGeneral publicAI developers and providersAI deployers and users

Researchers, developers, and practitioners interested in the design, ethical implications, and user acceptance of social robots should read this book.

Sectors

Research and science · human-robot interaction and roboticsHealthcare · health and care settingsManufacturing and industry · collaborative industrial work

What the document contains

What's covered

The text covers the technological, societal, and ethical aspects of social robots and human-robot interaction, spanning historical context, underlying recognition technologies, and various use-case studies in industrial, retail, and care environments.

What's missing

The text does not contain legally binding regulatory frameworks, governmental enforcement mechanisms, or formal statutory definitions.

Key takeaways

The book covers social robots across a vast spectrum of applications, including collaborative industrial work, education, sales, and healthcare.
Interdisciplinary perspectives from computer science, engineering, psychology, design, and medicine are combined to analyze human-robot interaction.
Ethical aspects, technology, design, and usage are discussed particularly for developments with high societal impact like healthcare robots.
User studies evaluate the acceptance, attitudes, and sense of safety of older people, healthcare professionals, and the general public when interacting with social robots.

Outline

· Front Matter Pages i-xiii
· A Short History of the Perception of Robots and Automata from Antiquity to Modern Times
· Designing Social Robots at Scales Beyond the Humanoid
· A Study on Robot-Initiated Interaction: Toward Virtual Social Behavior
· The Role of Gesture in Social Telepresence Robots—A Scenario of Distant Collaborative Problem-Solving
· Unobtrusive Vital Data Recognition by Robots to Enhance Natural Human–Robot Communication
· Interacting with Collaborative Robots—A Study on Attitudes and Acceptance in Industrial Contexts
· A Social Robot in a Shopping Mall: Studies on Acceptance and Stakeholder Expectations
· Multi-party Interaction in Public Spaces: Cross-Cultural Variations in Parental and Nonparental Response to Robots’ Adaptive Strategies
· Cross-Collaborative Approach to Socially-Assistive Robotics: A Case Study of Humanoid Robots in a Therapeutic Intervention for Autistic Children
· Social Robots and Human Touch in Care: The Perceived Usefulness of Robot Assistance Among Healthcare Professionals
· Attitudes of Professionals Toward the Need for Assistive and Social Robots in the Healthcare Sector
· Evaluating the Sense of Safety and Security in Human–Robot Interaction with Older People
· AMIGO—A Socially Assistive Robot for Coaching Multimodal Training of Persons with Dementia
· Back Matter Pages 285-288

Issued11 July 2019

Length1,037 words

FormatNot recorded

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Human Dignity

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Respect for the inherent worth of persons

discuss not only technology, design and usage but also ethical aspects

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Human Oversight

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Humans remain in control of consequential decisions

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Impact Assessment

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Required assessment of an AI system's risks/impacts before or during use

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Topics

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human_robot_interaction social_robots assistive_technology ethics user_studies