Meaningful Futures with Robots—Designing a New Coexistence

Dörrenbächer, Judith; Ringfort-Felner, Ronda; Neuhaus, Robin; Hassenzahl, Marc

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“…This collaborative approach, with each professional leading at different stages, ensures a comprehensive and adaptive intervention, maximizing the potential of robot-assisted sessions integrated with advanced conversational AI. Below, we outline a series of tasks that each of the mentioned professionals should undertake within the team in the future (Dörrenbächer et al, 2022). This ensures that, within the proposed scenarios, there is full collaboration and an effective educational and developmental action for individuals with ASD.…”

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A social robot connected with chatGPT to improve cognitive functioning in ASD subjects

Bertacchini,

Demarco,

Scuro

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDDs) represent a significant healthcare and economic burden for families and society. Technology, including AI and digital technologies, offers potential solutions for the assessment, monitoring, and treatment of NDDs. However, further research is needed to determine the effectiveness, feasibility, and acceptability of these technologies in NDDs, and to address the challenges associated with their implementation. In this work, we present the application of social robotics using a Pepper robot connected to the OpenAI system (Chat-GPT) for real-time dialogue initiation with the robot. After describing the general architecture of the system, we present two possible simulated interaction scenarios of a subject with Autism Spectrum Disorder in two different situations. Limitations and future implementations are also provided to provide an overview of the potential developments of interconnected systems that could greatly contribute to technological advancements for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDD).

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A social robot connected with chatGPT to improve cognitive functioning in ASD subjects

Bertacchini,

Demarco,

Scuro

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…Are friendship and partnership with robots possible? In robot ethics, there is already extensive research on collegial relationships, friendship, partnership, and sex with robots Danaher & McArthur, 2017;Danaher, 2019;Dörrenbächer et al, 2022;Haberland et al, 2022;Lin et al, 2017;Nyholm & Smids, 2020). A dominant debate in robot ethics is the robot rights debate, which questions whether robots can and should have rights (Gunkel, 2018a;Gunkel, 2018b;Coeckelbergh 2010;Nyholm, 2023).…”

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Not Relational Enough? Towards an Eco-Relational Approach in Robot Ethics

Puzio

2024

Philos. Technol.

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With robots increasingly integrated into various areas of life, the question of relationships with them is gaining prominence. Are friendship and partnership with robots possible? While there is already extensive research on relationships with robots, this article critically examines whether the relationship with non-human entities is sufficiently explored on a deeper level, especially in terms of ethical concepts such as autonomy, agency, and responsibility. In robot ethics, ethical concepts and considerations often presuppose properties such as consciousness, sentience, and intelligence, which are exclusively aligned with humans. I will challenge the understanding of these properties by anchoring them in contexts, bodies, and actions. This approach allows to consider the specific ways of being of various human and non-human entities and to identify these properties in non-human entities as well. My “eco-relational” approach posits that it is crucial to consider the relationality with non-human entities such as animals and technology in central ethical concepts from the beginning. This approach reflects the “eco”, the entire house in which we live including animals and robots. To support this, I examine two dominant approaches in robot ethics within the contemporary Western tradition: the “properties approach” and modestly relational approaches. I will develop an eco-relational approach as an alternative. Employing a phenomenological method, I will demonstrate through various examples that our properties and actions are inherently connected with non-human entities. I will show that robots play a central role in our properties and actions, leading to concepts such as hybrid actions and non-human agency. It becomes clear that technology and our relationships with it disrupt traditional ethical concepts.

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Inferior, Yet Transformative: the User Experience with Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

Hertzum

2024

Interacting With Computers

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Robotic vacuum cleaners are a prime example of home automation and a rich source of information about how people experience it. On the basis of a 3-week diary study, this article compares householders’ user experience (UX) of robotic vacuum cleaners with their UX of three types of manual vacuum cleaner. The main finding is that robotic vacuum cleaners are inferior in use, yet transform vacuuming. While their inferiority is about their pragmatic qualities, their transformative power relates to their autonomy, agency and hedonic qualities. This contradictory UX involves that robotic vacuum cleaners perform worse or not at all on seven out of nine surfaces and, at the same time, appear to escalate cleanliness standards. The transformation of household chores such as vacuuming is ongoing and calls for further research on engineering and merging the pragmatic and hedonic aspects of UX.

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Meaningful Futures with Robots—Designing a New Coexistence

Cited by 4 publications

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A social robot connected with chatGPT to improve cognitive functioning in ASD subjects

A social robot connected with chatGPT to improve cognitive functioning in ASD subjects

Not Relational Enough? Towards an Eco-Relational Approach in Robot Ethics

Inferior, Yet Transformative: the User Experience with Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

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