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Investigating and designing social robots from a role-theoretical perspective: Response to “Social interaction with robots—three questions”. In Gesa Lindemann (this volume)

Authors: Martin Meister, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer

Published in: AI & SOCIETY | Issue 4/2016

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Abstract

As proposed by the editors, we give statements to two of the questions formulated above, briefly sketch some basics of a role-based approach to socio-technical innovation and give some examples, as to why a role-based approach might be helpful for observing and contributing to the field of Social Robotics.

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Footnotes
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It could be another conceptual advantage of this independence from concrete “incumbents” that individual characteristics are not necessary for modeling. Hence privacy is not a critical issue here at least in principle. But we will not address normative questions in this article.
 
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Metadata
Title
Investigating and designing social robots from a role-theoretical perspective: Response to “Social interaction with robots—three questions”. In Gesa Lindemann (this volume)
Authors
Martin Meister
Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer
Publication date
29-10-2015
Publisher
Springer London
Published in
AI & SOCIETY / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0951-5666
Electronic ISSN: 1435-5655
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-015-0635-2

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