TY  - GEN
AU  - Carpenter,Julie
TI  - The naked android: synthetic socialness and the human gaze 
T2  - Chapman & Hall/CRC artificial intelligence and robotics
SN  - 9780367772529
AV  - TJ 211.49 .C36 
U1  - 629.8/924019 23/eng/20240822
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Boca Raton, FL
PB  - Taylor and Francis
KW  - Robots
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Human-robot interaction
KW  - Human-machine systems
KW  - Sex dolls
KW  - Robotics
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -