Moving android: on social robots and body-in-interaction.
Social robotics studies embodied technologies designed for social interaction. This paper examines the implied idea of embodiment using as data a sequence in which practitioners of social robotics are involved in designing a robot's movement. The moments of learning and work in the laboratory enact the social body as material, dynamic, and multiparty: the body-in-interaction. In describing subject-object reconfigurations, the paper explores how the well-known ideas of extending the body with instruments can be applied to a technology designed to function as our surrogate.
Department of Communication, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0503, USA. alac@ucsd.edu
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D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D012371:Robotics; D014584:User-Computer Interface