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The naked android : synthetic socialness and the human gaze / Julie Carpenter.

By: Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC artificial intelligence and roboticsPublisher: Boca Raton, FL : Taylor and Francis, 2025Description: xvi, 279p. illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780367772529
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Naked androidDDC classification:
  • 629.8/924019 23/eng/20240822
LOC classification:
  • TJ 211.49 .C36
Summary: "The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze illuminates the connection between the stories people tell, their expectations of what a robot is, and how these beliefs and values manifest in how real robots are designed and used. The introduction of the "human gaze" articulates how peoples' expectations and perceptions about robots are ultimately based on deeply personal cultural interpretations of what is artificial or human and what problems social robots should -or should not -solve. "The Naked Android" clarifies how human qualities like understanding and desire are designed into robots as mediums as well as projected onto them by the people who live with them. Using ethnographic methods including in-depth interviews with a variety of stakeholders, each chapter explores how people are designing social robots, the experience of living with robots, and people whose jobs it is to dream about a future integrated with robots"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze illuminates the connection between the stories people tell, their expectations of what a robot is, and how these beliefs and values manifest in how real robots are designed and used. The introduction of the "human gaze" articulates how peoples' expectations and perceptions about robots are ultimately based on deeply personal cultural interpretations of what is artificial or human and what problems social robots should -or should not -solve. "The Naked Android" clarifies how human qualities like understanding and desire are designed into robots as mediums as well as projected onto them by the people who live with them. Using ethnographic methods including in-depth interviews with a variety of stakeholders, each chapter explores how people are designing social robots, the experience of living with robots, and people whose jobs it is to dream about a future integrated with robots"-- Provided by publisher.

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