Human-Robot Personal Relationships: Third International Conference, HRPR 2010, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 23-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

Maarten H. Lamers, Fons J. Verbeek

Springer, May 25, 2011 - 139 pages

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in June 2010.The 16 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers and 1 keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers feature and discuss studies of personalrelationships with artificial partners, their formation, their possibilities and their consequences. Such personal relationships are increasingly attracting attention from scientific fields as (social) robotics, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, sociology.

Contents

• Theorizing Human and SociableTechnology Interaction: 1
• Towards a Sociological Understanding of Robots as Companions: 11
• The Development of an Online Research Tool to Investigate Childrens Social Bonds with Robots: 19
• Spatial Sounds 100dB at 100kmh in the Context of Human Robot Personal Relationships: 27
• Interaction between Task Oriented and Affective Information Processing in Cognitive Robotics: 34
• Childrens Perception and Interpretation of Robots and Robot Behaviour: 42
• Can Children Have a Relationship with a Robot?: 49
• EmotiRob Project: 57
• Investigation on Requirements of Robotic Platforms to Teach Social Skills to Individuals with Autism: 65
• Adventures of Harvey Use Acceptance of and Relationship Building with a Social Robot in a Domestic Environment: 74
• The Potential of Socially Assistive Robotics in Care for Elderly a Systematic Review: 83
• Artists and Androids: 90
• Digital Adultery MetaAnon Widows RealWorld Divorce and the Need for a Virtual Sexual Ethic: 98
• Modeling Mixed Groups of Humans and Robots with Reflexive Game Theory: 108
• A Design Process for Lovotics: 118
• On the Linguistic Construction of Personal HumanRobot Relations: 126
• Using Empathy to Improve HumanRobot Relationships: 130
• Author Index: 139

Bibliographic information

• Title: Human-Robot Personal Relationships: Third International Conference, HRPR 2010, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 23-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers; Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Institute for Computer Sciences; Volume 59 of Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences
• Authors: Maarten H. Lamers, Fons J. Verbeek
• Editors: Maarten H. Lamers, Fons J. Verbeek
• Contributor: Maarten H. Lamers
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer, 2011
• ISBN: 3642193846, 9783642193842
• Length: 139 pages
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Assistive computer technology; Computers / Database Management / General; Computers / Hardware / Network Hardware; Computers / Information Technology; Computers / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; Computers / Machine Theory; Computers / Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction; Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General; Computers / User Interfaces; Human-computer interaction; Personal robotics; Robotics; Technology & Engineering / Robotics