Where are we with social robotics Kerstin Dautenhahn University of Hertfordshire V&V workshop, Cumberland Lodge 23-24 November 2017
My background
Today Care-o-bot 3 robot (Fraunhofer) Photography by Pete Stevens, www.creativeempathy.com
Sunflower robot (University of Hertfordshire)
Kaspar http://www.herts.ac.uk/kaspar
Social? • Often implying human social behaviour • Human-Robot Interaction • Other models of social behaviour are possible, see work inspired by dog behaviour etc. • Fewer expectations!
The people • Personalisation • Personality • Individual differences • Older people, children etc.
Robotics • Robot are not what they used to be…. • A moving target
Robotics • Human-robot interaction studies very costly to run • Simulation vs. real world experiments • Trust…
Social robotics/HRI and ethics • Do we need ethical algorithms? • How to children learn about good and bad behaviour? • Learning by experience and imitation, more than learning by instruction • Focus often on humanoids-androids • Our tendency to be fascinated by creating objects in our image • Raises expectations • Can impair our notions of what it means to be human • Can make us more robotic in what we do and how we think about ourselves, others and relationships
What we are: biological creatures By Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada (Chin up) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons By Sage Ross (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons By Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons By Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Ethical dilemmas for HRI? • Care and home robots -Who is the master, who is the slave? • ‘Buying into’ a service • Relational artifacts that may deceive us (Sherry Turkle) • We may empathise with robots but they don’t care about us…
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