In search for more HRI/Roboethics — start of CITEC Summer School

I woke up Saturday morning with less sense of panic than I had expected.
I was scheduled to leave for Europe later that day, and I still had barely packed for my three-week trip. It’s not …

Safety issues loom as humanoid invasion approaches – tech – 10 March 2010 – New Scientist

Safety issues loom as humanoid invasion approaches – tech – 10 March 2010 – New Scientist.
More and more people are asking the question ‘how can we make it safe to hang out with robots in …

How Robotic Products Become Social Products – Forlizzi

A new study from Carnegie Mellon University by Jodi Forlizzi “How Robotic Products Become Social Products: An Ethnographic Study of Robotic Products in the Home” states that “when simple social attributes are part of the design …

A Perfect (Robotic) Woman Cont’d – Virtual/Artificial Girlfriend (Companion)

In response to the recent ‘A Perfect (Robotic) Woman‘ post, my good friend Mike sent me a couple of related articles that poses more questions/concerns regarding the robotic girlfriend/wife/companion issue.
The first article tells more than …

Interaction Studies Journal – and 3 relevant Special Issues

Another newly discovered journal!

There are three special issues from this journal that might be of interest to you: 1.Psychological Benchmarks of Human-Robot Interaction(2007), 2. Human and Robot Interactive Communication(2008), 3. Robots in the Wile: Exploring human-robot interaction in naturalistic environments(2009)

Some interesting titles from the journal: “What is a Human? Toward psychological benchmarks in the field of human–robot interaction”, “Nonverbal intimacy as a benchmark for human–robot interaction”, and “The influence of robot personality on perceived and preferred level of user control”

The Autonomous City Explorer: Towards Natural Human-Robot Interaction in Urban Environments

Authors: Andrea Bauer · Klaas Klasing · Georgios Lidoris · Quirin Mühlbauer ·Florian Rohrmüller · Stefan Sosnowski · Tingting Xu ·Kolja Kühnlenz ·DirkWollherr · Martin Buss
International Journal of Social Robotics
Link: SpringerLink.
Abstract
The Autonomous City Explorer (ACE) …

Monkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valley

Study on how uncanny valley is not unique to humans.

Robots That Care – New Yorker’s Summary on Therapy/Medical Robots

‘Robots That Care’ is an interesting summary piece from New Yorker that came out early this week.
It gives a summary of what studies have been done, and are being done in the field of therapy …