Social Robots from a Human Perspective

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vincent, Jane (Editor), Taipale, Sakari (Editor), Sapio, Bartolomeo (Editor), Lugano, Giuseppe (Editor), Fortunati, Leopoldina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Application software.; Robotics.; Automation.; Communication.; Robotics and Automation.; Communication Studies.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Addressing several issues that explore the human side of social robots, this book asks from a social and human scientific perspective what a social robot is and how we might come to think about social robots in the different areas of everyday life. Organized around three sections that deal with Perc...