15. Agents as Artworks and Agent Design as Artistic Practice

Penny, Simon

doi:10.1075/aicr.19.18pen

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“…More recent examples of emerging social behaviour between robots include, for example, experiments using simple robot-robot following behaviour that resulted from sensorimotor coordination and gave rise to imitation learning (Billard & Dautenhahn 1998). A similar principle of 'social behaviour without (social) rule' is embodied in Simon Penny's robot 'Petit Mal', built 45 years after the tortoises, with the specific purpose to interact with museum visitors as an artistic installation (Penny 2000). Figure 10 shows the mobile robot used in this research.…”

Section: Emerging Social Interaction Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socially intelligent robots: dimensions of human–robot interaction

Dautenhahn

2007

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

869

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Social intelligence in robots has a quite recent history in artificial intelligence and robotics. However, it has become increasingly apparent that social and interactive skills are necessary requirements in many application areas and contexts where robots need to interact and collaborate with other robots or humans. Research on human-robot interaction (HRI) poses many challenges regarding the nature of interactivity and 'social behaviour' in robot and humans. The first part of this paper addresses dimensions of HRI, discussing requirements on social skills for robots and introducing the conceptual space of HRI studies. In order to illustrate these concepts, two examples of HRI research are presented. First, research is surveyed which investigates the development of a cognitive robot companion. The aim of this work is to develop social rules for robot behaviour (a 'robotiquette') that is comfortable and acceptable to humans. Second, robots are discussed as possible educational or therapeutic toys for children with autism. The concept of interactive emergence in human-child interactions is highlighted. Different types of play among children are discussed in the light of their potential investigation in human-robot experiments. The paper concludes by examining different paradigms regarding 'social relationships' of robots and people interacting with them.

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Section: Emerging Social Interaction Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socially intelligent robots: dimensions of human–robot interaction

Dautenhahn

2007

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

869

492

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“…They have a serious point, but they may bring their point across in a playful manner. Examples of such work include Bill Gaver and Heather Martin's conceptual information appliances (Gaver and Martin 2000), which explore the role of technology in our everyday lives; Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby's electronic furniture (Dunne and Raby 2001), which provide people with different ways to sense and respond to activity in the electromagnetic spectrum; and Simon Penny's Petit Mal (Penny 2000), an artwork exploring the nature of artificial agents through a gangly and not very bright robot whose complex and graceful physical activity is almost entirely triggered by human bodily interaction. What these systems have in common is not a desire to engineer experience, but to build thoughtful artefacts that create opportunities for thinking about and engaging in new kinds of experiences.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Engineering of Experience

Sengers¹

2003

Funology

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A deep shift in Western culture has occurred in the last 200 years. We have moved from lifestyles in which work, play, and other forms of experience are inextricably intertwined, to one in which most people separate their work life from a private (and often less societally valued) life of fun and play. Engineering has played a central role in this bifurcation, fulfilling a cultural desire to engineer human experience for optimal functionality. The result has been a great increase in our material comforts, coupled with a harried, frenzied lifestyle for many. In this chapter, I will argue that designing systems to support rich, meaningful, and pleasurable human experiences requires moving away from the model of engineering experience and towards an interdisciplinary approach to computing, in which technology design is intertwined with philosophical and cultural analysis.

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“…I grappled with the available technologies (and my limited technical education) to build systems for embodied interaction that were both intuitive and aesthetically rich, and that, by their existence and functioning, proposed viable alternatives to conventional ideas about computing and cognition. My writing at the time emerged out of this combination of at-the-coal-face practice in this exciting discursive environment (see, for instance, [19][20][21][22][23][24][25]). Central to my thinking was a notion of agency, based in artificial life conceptions.…”

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Emergence, Agency, and Interaction—Notes from the Field

Penny

2015

Artificial Life

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This article describes the development of several interactive installations and robotic artworks developed through the 1990s and the technological, theoretical, and discursive context in which those works arose. The main works discussed are Petit Mal (1989-1995), Sympathetic Sentience (1996-1997), Fugitive I (1996-1997), Traces (1998-1999), and Fugitive II (2001-2004)-full documentation at ( www.simonpenny.net/works ). These works were motivated by a critical analysis of cognitivist computer science, which contrasted with notions of embodied experience arising from the arts. The works address questions of agency and interaction, informed by cybernetics and artificial life.

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15. Agents as Artworks and Agent Design as Artistic Practice

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Socially intelligent robots: dimensions of human–robot interaction

Socially intelligent robots: dimensions of human–robot interaction

The Engineering of Experience

Emergence, Agency, and Interaction—Notes from the Field

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