Robots and the Complexity of Everyday Worlds

Bischof, Andreas; Maibaum, Arne

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“…This applies particularly to the complexity of the real-world problems and of the related data and socio-physical environments, as well as the unpredictability of human behaviour that often make it difficult to plan and execute HRI studies ‘in-the-wild’. The very use of robots in everyday worlds has sometimes been described as “an enormous challenge” ( Bischof et al, 2020 ) and “an absolute borderline case” (ibid.) for robotics.…”

Section: The Everyday and Lived Experiencementioning

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“…Perhaps for different reasons (e.g., to address technical and design challenges), HRI and robotics research too has been concerned with the complexity, "wickedness" (Bischof et al, 2020) or 'messiness' of the human real-world (Auger, 2014;Dautenhahn, 2018;Matarić, 2018;Bartneck et al, 2020). This applies particularly to the complexity of the real-world problems and of the related data and socio-physical environments, as well as the unpredictability of human behaviour that often make it difficult to plan and execute HRI studies 'in-the-wild' .…”

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Towards a conceptualisation and critique of everyday life in HRI

Zawieska,

Hannibal

2023

Front. Robot. AI

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This paper focuses on the topic of “everyday life” as it is addressed in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research. It starts from the argument that while human daily life with social robots has been increasingly discussed and studied in HRI, the concept of everyday life lacks clarity or systematic analysis, and it plays only a secondary role in supporting the study of the key HRI topics. In order to help conceptualise everyday life as a research theme in HRI in its own right, we provide an overview of the Social Science and Humanities (SSH) perspectives on everyday life and lived experiences, particularly in sociology, and identify the key elements that may serve to further develop and empirically study such a concept in HRI. We propose new angles of analysis that may help better explore unique aspects of human engagement with social robots. We look at the everyday not just as a reality as we know it (i.e., the realm of the “ordinary”) but also as the future that we need to envision and strive to materialise (i.e., the transformation that will take place through the “extraordinary” that comes with social robots). Finally, we argue that HRI research would benefit not only from engaging with a systematic conceptualisation but also critique of the contemporary everyday life with social robots. This is how HRI studies could play an important role in challenging the current ways of understanding of what makes different aspects of the human world “natural” and ultimately help bringing a social change towards what we consider a “good life.”

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Section: The Everyday and Lived Experiencementioning

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Section: Being Taken-for-granted and Habitualitymentioning

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Towards a conceptualisation and critique of everyday life in HRI

Zawieska,

Hannibal

2023

Front. Robot. AI

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Das epistemische Verhältnis der Sozialrobotik zur Gesellschaft

Bischof

2021

Soziale Roboter

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A critique of robotics in health care

Maibaum¹,

Bischof

Hergesell³

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When the social relevance of robotic applications is addressed today, the use of assistive technology in care settings is almost always the first example. So-called care robots are presented as a solution to the nursing crisis, despite doubts about their technological readiness and the lack of concrete usage scenarios in everyday nursing practice. We inquire into this interconnection of social robotics and care. We show how both are made available for each other in three arenas: innovation policy, care organization, and robotic engineering. First, we analyze the discursive “logics” of care robotics within European innovation policy, second, we disclose how care robotics is encountering a historically grown conflict within health care organization, and third we show how care scenarios are being used in robotic engineering. From this diagnosis, we derive a threefold critique of robotics in healthcare, which calls attention to the politics, historicity, and social situatedness of care robotics in elderly care.

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Robots and the Complexity of Everyday Worlds

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Towards a conceptualisation and critique of everyday life in HRI

Towards a conceptualisation and critique of everyday life in HRI

Das epistemische Verhältnis der Sozialrobotik zur Gesellschaft

A critique of robotics in health care

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