The Self in the Machine

eng Article in English DOI: 10.14313/PAR_204/78

send Karolina Zawieska *, Brian R. Duffy ** * Przemysłowy Instytut Automatyki i Pomiarów PIAP ** SMARTlab at University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin

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Abstract

Social human-robot interaction (HRI) has been widely recognised as one of the major challenges for robotics. This social aspect includes designing robots that embraces various humanlike characteristics regarding robot appearance and behaviour. Few HRI studies, however, address the core goal of human social interaction, i.e. the development of the self. This paper argues that social robots can constitute an illusion or an extension of the human self and should be developed as such. The concept of the self and its meanings for HRI research are here discussed from the symbolic interactionism perspective.

Keywords

human-robot, interaction, self, self-extension, symbolic interactionism

Jaźń maszyny

Streszczenie

Interakcja społeczna między ludźmi i robotami stanowi jedno z głównych wyzwań dla współczesnej robotyki. Aspekt społeczny interakcji między ludźmi i maszynami zawiera budowanie robotów, które posiadają cechy naśladujące cechy ludzkie w kontekście wyglądu i zachowania robota. Mimo to, niewiele prac skupia się na głównym celu ludzkich interakcji społecznych z robotami, tzn. na rozwinięciu jaźni w maszynie. Autorzy niniejszej pracy twierdzą, że roboty mogą stanowić rozszerzenie ludzkiej jaźni i jako takie powinny być rozwijane. Pojęcie jaźni oraz jego znaczenie dla badań w dziedzinie Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) omawiane są w pespektywy interakcjonizmu symbolicznego.

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człowieka-robot, interakcja, interakcjonizm symboliczny, jaźń, rozszerzenie jaźni

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