1st Edition
Personhood and Social Robotics A psychological consideration
By Raya Jones
Copyright 2016
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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An exponentially growing industry, human robot interaction (HRI) research has drawn predominantly upon psychologists’ descriptions of mechanisms of face-to-face dyadic interactions. This book considers how social robotics is beginning unwittingly to confront an impasse that has been a perennial dilemma for psychology, associated with the historical ‘science vs. art’ debate. Raya Jones examines... Read more
1. Problematizing Personhood Differently 2. Means to Meaning 3. The Semiotic Robot Hypothesis 4. The Relationship Machine 5. Voices in the Field – the Pragmatic Engineer, Technocentric Visionary and Inquisitive Scientist 6. Rhetoric and Right Action Ahead of Robot Nannies 7. Subversions of Subjectivity 8. Chronotope Shifts in the Uncanny Valley 9. Narrativity of the Act and the New Ontology 10. Futures in the Present Tense
Biography
Raya Jones is a Reader at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.
