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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Situating the Human in Social Robots
• Robot Shift from Industrial Production to Social Reproduction
• In the Company of Robots: Views of Acceptability of Robots in Social Settings
• Perception, Acceptance and the Social Construction of Robots - Exploratory Studies
• Social Robotics in Health Care Service: The Case of Rehabilitation Programmes in Hong Kong
• Intuitive Interaction between Humans and Robots in Work Functions at Industrial Environments: The Role of Social Robotics
• Minimizing the Human? Functional Reductions of Complexity in Social Robotics and their Cybernetic Heritage
• Open Sourcing Social Robotics: Humanoid Artifacts from the Viewpoint of Designers
• The Mobile Phone: An Emotionalised Social Robot
• The Technologicalization of Education in China: A Case Study of the Home–School Communication System
• Fashion Tech and Robotics
• Conclusions.