Designing Social Robots at Scales Beyond the Humanoid

Mokhtar, Tarek H.

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“…iHE results from the "Kuleshov effect" in which transprogramming sport-spaces/equipment/activities within traditional home spaces creates a new narrative/program, Figure 1. The iHE platform exists at the intersection of two fundamental sets of concepts and technologies: a. transprogrammed homes; and, b. an interactive, non-humanoid social robotic platform (Hopper, 2017;May, 2014;Mokhtar, 2019;Negroponte, 1975;Nielsen, 1993) to guide and to respond to the users' inputs/interactions. iHE is a robotic interactive physical-digital system for kids, teens, and adults to exercise at home through a spatial game.…”

Section: Interactive Home+exercise (Ihe) Designmentioning

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Designing Human-Robotic Interactions for an interactive Home+Exercise (iHE) Environment

Mokhtar

Manganelli²

2022

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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This research investigated how home exercise systems may evolve when augmented with human-robot-interaction technologies. In a covid/post-covid era, families seek options for play and exercise at home. How will the homes of tomorrow accommodate the dynamic, intensive, and social nature of human play, exercise, and sports? What does a home play/exercise system entail that is usable by individuals or groups of all ages and that fosters developing the physical, cognitive, social, and distributed dimensions of sports activities? This research explores an interactive “Home+Exercise” (iHE) concept. iHE incorporates a non-humanoid social robotic environment providing game-based, structured play for individuals and groups to foster athletic and team skills. This research used three theoretical frames: (1) embodied interaction, (2) activity spaces, and (3) neuro-ergonomics. The analysis usefully maps relevant design concerns and identified the following challenges: (1) the criteria of evaluation are mainly qualitative, the complexity of interactions with non-humanoid social robots, and limitations mitigating external threats to validity.

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Section: Interactive Home+exercise (Ihe) Designmentioning

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Designing Human-Robotic Interactions for an interactive Home+Exercise (iHE) Environment

Mokhtar

Manganelli²

2022

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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On the Robosphere: A Philosophical Explication of the Socio-technical Status of Social Robots

Lamola

2022

Int J of Soc Robotics

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As the Fourth Industrial Revolution advances, socially-situated robots are increasingly not exclusively human-like (i.e. humanoids). They also include socially interactive animaloids. How does this myriad of socially intelligent artefacts emerge as members of a cyber-physical social system in which they are accorded the standing of social robots? And how are we to account for the nature of the universe-of-meaning that emerges from this human-artificial social reality? Utilizing conceptual tools derived from the philosophical fields of phenomenology and “new materialism”, I proffer a theoretic account of robotic sociality. I postulate how robots become members of a cyber-physical social network that is cohabited with sapient humans. Two novel functional constructs are introduced in the process: “the humanoidic” and “the robosphere”. The former illuminates that spontaneous bestowal of sociality on robots is tantamount to a recognition of their social agency. I then demonstrate how this psychical process of the recognition of these humanoidic artefacts instantiates an emergence of a shared human–robot cyber-physical world of relational meaning-making, a robosphere. As a corroboration of the self-manifestation of the robosphere as a concrete social system, it is shown that Industry 4.0 adumbrates Society 4.0, a cybernetic social formation, and the envisioned advance of this into the more technocratic super-smart Society 5.0.

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Designing Social Robots at Scales Beyond the Humanoid

Cited by 2 publications

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Designing Human-Robotic Interactions for an interactive Home+Exercise (iHE) Environment

Designing Human-Robotic Interactions for an interactive Home+Exercise (iHE) Environment

On the Robosphere: A Philosophical Explication of the Socio-technical Status of Social Robots

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