Close engagements with artificial companions : key social, psychological, ethical and design issues / / edited by Yorick Wilks

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Disciplina: 006.3
• Soggetto topico: Human-computer interaction; Natural language processing (Computer science); Artificial intelligence
• Classificazione: ST 300
• Altri autori: WilksYorick <1939-2023.>
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Section I. Setting the scene: In good company? On the threshold of robotic companions / Sherry Turkle -- Introducing artificial Companions / Yorick Wilks -- Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues: Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges / Luciano Floridi -- Conditions for Companionhood / Stephen G. Pulman -- Arius in cyberspace: Digital Companions and the limits of the person / Kieron O'Hara -- Section III. Social and psychological issues: What should a Companion be like?: Conversationalists and confidants / Margaret A. Boden -- Robots should be slaves / Joanna J. Bryson -- Wanting the impossible: The dilemma at the heart of intimate human-robot relationships / Dylan Evans -- Falling in love with a Companion / David Levy -- Identifying your accompanist / Will Lowe -- Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion / Daniela M. Romano -- New Companions / Alex Taylor, Anab Jain and Laurel Swan -- On being a Victorian Companion / Yorick Wilks-- Section IV. Design issues: Building a Companion: The use of affective and attentive cues in an empathic computer-based Companions / Nikolaus Bee...(et al) -- GRETA: Towards an interactive conversational virtual Companion / Elisabetta Bevacqua...(et al) -- Companionship is an emotional business / Roddy Cowie -- Artificial Companions in society: Consulting the users / Alan Newell -- Requirements for Artificial Companions: It's harder than you think / Aaron Sloman -- You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you / Alan FT Winfield -- Section V. Special purpose Companions: A Companion for learning in everyday life / Rebecca Eynon and Chris Davies -- The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion / Sergei Nirenburg -- Living with robots: Ethical tradeoffs in eldercare / Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey -- Section VI. Afterward: Summary and discussion of the issues / Malcom Peltu and Yorick Wilks.
• Sommario/riassunto: The COMPANIONS project, which inspired this book, is studying conversational software-based artificial agents that will get to know their owners over a substantial period. These could be developed to advise, comfort and carry out a wide range of functions to support diverse personal and social needs, such as to be 'artificial Companions' for the elderly, helping their owners to learn, or assisting to sustain their owners' fitness and health. This chapter summarizes the main issues raised in the workshop that gave rise to this book. Most direct quotes from participants in this chapter come from their own chapters. Appendix 1 contains examples of current artificial Companions and related research projects mentioned at the workshop.
• Titolo autorizzato: Close engagements with artificial companions
• ISBN: 9786612558610; 9781282558618; 1282558617; 9789027288400; 9027288402
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967475103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Natural language processing ; ; 8.