1st Edition
Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces A War Story
By Julie Carpenter
Copyright 2016
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel are some of the most highly trained people in the military, with a job description that spans defusing unexploded ordnance to protecting VIP’s and state dignitaries. EOD are also one of the first military groups to work with robots every day. These robots have become an increasingly important tool in EOD work, enabling people to work at safer distances... Read more
Part 1 Narratives; Chapter 1 Learning by Experience; Chapter 2 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Stories; Part 2 Metaphors; Chapter 3 Our Emotional Engines; Chapter 4 Meaningful Connections with Non-human Things; Chapter 5 Robot Design as Rhetoric; Part 3 Patterns; Chapter 6 The Ecological System of U.S. Military EOD Work; Chapter 7 Action Formation; Chapter 8 Preparing to Repair; Chapter 9 Transformational Shifts;
Biography
Julie Carpenter worked in user-centered research and development of Web-based applications in the medical field when she decided to pursue an academic career. Over the last ten years, she has focused her expertise on a body of work exploring human emotion and attachment in human-robot interaction, authoring academic articles and book chapters.
