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Soon, robots will leave the factories and make their way into living rooms, supermarkets, and care facilities. They will cooperate with humans in everyday life, taking on more than just practical tasks. How should they communicate with us? Do they need eyes, a screen, or arms? Should they resemble humans? Or may they enrich social situations precisely because they act so differently from humans?

Meaningful Futures with Robots: Designing a New Coexistence provides insight into the opportunities and risks that arise from living with robots in the future, anchored in current research projects on everyday robotics. As well as generating ideas for robot developers and designers, it also critically discusses existing theories and methods for social robotics from different perspectives - ethical, design, artistical and technological â and presents new approaches to meaningful human-robot interaction design.

Key Features:

  • Provides insights into current

    Table of Contents

    1. Towards Designing Meaningful Relationships with Robots

    2. Concept and Content of the Book

    Part 1 Designing a New Species Interaction Design and Product Design of Robots

    3. How to Design Robots with Superpowers

    Robin Neuhaus, Ronda Ringfort Felner, Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl

    4. Social Robots Should Mediate, not Replace, Social Interactions

    Timo Kaerlein

    5. Neither Human Nor Computer —A Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaboration in Autism Therapy

    Ronda Ringfort-Felner, Judith Dörrenbächer

    6. Counting Characters and Spaces—On Robot Disabilities, Robot Care, and Technological Dependencies

    Lenneke Kuijer

    7. Designing Robots with Personality

    Lara Christoforakos, Sarah Diefenbach, Daniel Ullrich

    8. Designing Robots as Social Counterparts— A Discussion about a Technology Claiming its Own Needs

    Lara Christoforakos, Tobias Störzinger

    9. Falling in Love With a Machine— What Happens if the Only Affection a Person Gets is From Machines?

    Felix Carros (F.C.), Anne Wierling (A.W.), Adrian Preussner (A.P.)

    10. I am Listening to You!—How to Make Different Robotic Species Speak the Same Language

    Judith Dörrenbächer, Anne Wierling

    11. How to Really Get in Touch with Robots—Haptic Interaction Technologies for VR and Teleoperation

    Bernhard Weber, Thomas Hulin, Lisa Schiffer

    Part 2 Designing Future Enviroments—Social Innovation Initiated by Robots

    12. Design Fiction—The Future of Robots Needs Imagination

    Ronda Ringfort-Felner, Robin Neuhaus, Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl

    13. Cramer’s Funeral Service for Androids

    Uwe Post

    14. Googly Eyes

    Marc Hassenzahl

    15 Empathizing with Robots—Animistic and Performative Methods to Anticipate a Robot’s Impact

    Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl

    16. From the Lab to a Real-World Supermarket— About Anticipating the Chances and Challenges of a Shopping

    Robot Robin Neuhaus, Judith Dörrenbächer

    17. Dominant, Persuasive or Polite?— About Human Curiosity, Provocative Users and Solving Conflicts between Humans and Robots

    Judith Dörrenbächer

    18. Seven Observations, or Why Domestic Robots are Struggling to Enter the Habitats of Everyday Life

    James Auger

    19. Is this a Patient or a Wall?— Adapting Robots from an Industrial Context to a Rehabilitation Clinic

    Jochen Feitsch, Bernhard Weber

    20. Robotics x Book Studies Imagining a Robotic Archive of Embodied Knowledge

    Corinna Norrick-Rühl

    21. "That’s the Future, I’m Telling You.”

    Antje Herden

    22. Graphic Recording Cool Johanna Benz

    Part 3 Designing together with People— Civic Participation and Ethical Implications Concerning Robots

    23. Citizen Participation in Social Robotics Research

    Felix Carros, Johanna Langendorf, Dave Randall, Rainer Wieching, Volker Wulf

    24. Learning from Each Other— How Roboticists Learn from Users and how Users Teach their Robots

    Felix Carros, Adrian Preussner

    25. My Friend Simsala, the Robot

    Edi Haug, Laura M. Schwengber

    26. Move Away from the Stereotypical User in the Picture-perfect Scenario—A Plea for Early and Broad User Integration

    Stephanie Häusler Weiss, Kilian Röhm, Tobias Störzinger

    27. Is it Good?— A Philosophical Approach Towards Ethics Centered- Design (ECD)

    Catrin Misselhorn, Manuel Scheidegger, Tobias Störzinger

    28. Are Robots Good at Everything? A Robot in an Elementary School

    Elke Buttgereit

    29. The Medium has a Message Educational Robots in a Didactic Triangle

    Scarlet Schaffrath

    30. The Friendly Siblings of Workhorses and Killer Robots—About Becoming Alive Through the Nonliving, and Feeling Blessed by a Religious Machine

    Ilona Nord

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    A Paperback / softback by Judith Dörrenbächer, Ronda Ringfort-Felner, Robin Neuhaus

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: 30/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9781032246482, 978-1032246482
      ISBN10: 1032246480

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Soon, robots will leave the factories and make their way into living rooms, supermarkets, and care facilities. They will cooperate with humans in everyday life, taking on more than just practical tasks. How should they communicate with us? Do they need eyes, a screen, or arms? Should they resemble humans? Or may they enrich social situations precisely because they act so differently from humans?

      Meaningful Futures with Robots: Designing a New Coexistence provides insight into the opportunities and risks that arise from living with robots in the future, anchored in current research projects on everyday robotics. As well as generating ideas for robot developers and designers, it also critically discusses existing theories and methods for social robotics from different perspectives - ethical, design, artistical and technological â and presents new approaches to meaningful human-robot interaction design.

      Key Features:

      • Provides insights into current

        Table of Contents

        1. Towards Designing Meaningful Relationships with Robots

        2. Concept and Content of the Book

        Part 1 Designing a New Species Interaction Design and Product Design of Robots

        3. How to Design Robots with Superpowers

        Robin Neuhaus, Ronda Ringfort Felner, Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl

        4. Social Robots Should Mediate, not Replace, Social Interactions

        Timo Kaerlein

        5. Neither Human Nor Computer —A Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaboration in Autism Therapy

        Ronda Ringfort-Felner, Judith Dörrenbächer

        6. Counting Characters and Spaces—On Robot Disabilities, Robot Care, and Technological Dependencies

        Lenneke Kuijer

        7. Designing Robots with Personality

        Lara Christoforakos, Sarah Diefenbach, Daniel Ullrich

        8. Designing Robots as Social Counterparts— A Discussion about a Technology Claiming its Own Needs

        Lara Christoforakos, Tobias Störzinger

        9. Falling in Love With a Machine— What Happens if the Only Affection a Person Gets is From Machines?

        Felix Carros (F.C.), Anne Wierling (A.W.), Adrian Preussner (A.P.)

        10. I am Listening to You!—How to Make Different Robotic Species Speak the Same Language

        Judith Dörrenbächer, Anne Wierling

        11. How to Really Get in Touch with Robots—Haptic Interaction Technologies for VR and Teleoperation

        Bernhard Weber, Thomas Hulin, Lisa Schiffer

        Part 2 Designing Future Enviroments—Social Innovation Initiated by Robots

        12. Design Fiction—The Future of Robots Needs Imagination

        Ronda Ringfort-Felner, Robin Neuhaus, Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl

        13. Cramer’s Funeral Service for Androids

        Uwe Post

        14. Googly Eyes

        Marc Hassenzahl

        15 Empathizing with Robots—Animistic and Performative Methods to Anticipate a Robot’s Impact

        Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl

        16. From the Lab to a Real-World Supermarket— About Anticipating the Chances and Challenges of a Shopping

        Robot Robin Neuhaus, Judith Dörrenbächer

        17. Dominant, Persuasive or Polite?— About Human Curiosity, Provocative Users and Solving Conflicts between Humans and Robots

        Judith Dörrenbächer

        18. Seven Observations, or Why Domestic Robots are Struggling to Enter the Habitats of Everyday Life

        James Auger

        19. Is this a Patient or a Wall?— Adapting Robots from an Industrial Context to a Rehabilitation Clinic

        Jochen Feitsch, Bernhard Weber

        20. Robotics x Book Studies Imagining a Robotic Archive of Embodied Knowledge

        Corinna Norrick-Rühl

        21. "That’s the Future, I’m Telling You.”

        Antje Herden

        22. Graphic Recording Cool Johanna Benz

        Part 3 Designing together with People— Civic Participation and Ethical Implications Concerning Robots

        23. Citizen Participation in Social Robotics Research

        Felix Carros, Johanna Langendorf, Dave Randall, Rainer Wieching, Volker Wulf

        24. Learning from Each Other— How Roboticists Learn from Users and how Users Teach their Robots

        Felix Carros, Adrian Preussner

        25. My Friend Simsala, the Robot

        Edi Haug, Laura M. Schwengber

        26. Move Away from the Stereotypical User in the Picture-perfect Scenario—A Plea for Early and Broad User Integration

        Stephanie Häusler Weiss, Kilian Röhm, Tobias Störzinger

        27. Is it Good?— A Philosophical Approach Towards Ethics Centered- Design (ECD)

        Catrin Misselhorn, Manuel Scheidegger, Tobias Störzinger

        28. Are Robots Good at Everything? A Robot in an Elementary School

        Elke Buttgereit

        29. The Medium has a Message Educational Robots in a Didactic Triangle

        Scarlet Schaffrath

        30. The Friendly Siblings of Workhorses and Killer Robots—About Becoming Alive Through the Nonliving, and Feeling Blessed by a Religious Machine

        Ilona Nord

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