Talking to robots: on the linguistic construction of personal human-robot relations

Maarten H. Lamers; Mark Coeckelbergh; Fons J. Verbeek

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_16

Talking to robots: on the linguistic construction of personal human-robot relations

Maarten H. Lamers (Editor), Mark Coeckelbergh, Fons J. Verbeek (Editor)

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences

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Abstract

How should we make sense of 'personal' human-robot relations, given that many people view robots as 'mere machines'? This paper proposes that we understand human-robot relations from a phenomenological view as social relations in which robots are constructed as quasi-others. It is argued that language mediates in this construction. Responding to research by Turkle and others, it is shown that our talking to robots (as opposed to talking about robots) reveals a shift from an impersonal third-person to a personal second-person perspective, which constitutes a different kind of human-robot relation. The paper makes suggestions for empirical research to further study this social-phenomenological process

Original language	Undefined
Pages	126-129
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_16
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	3rd International Conference on Human Robot Personal Relationships, HRPR 2010 - Leiden, Netherlands Duration: 23 Jun 2010 → 24 Jun 2010 Conference number: 3

Conference

Conference	3rd International Conference on Human Robot Personal Relationships, HRPR 2010
Abbreviated title	HRPR
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Leiden
Period	23/06/10 → 24/06/10

Keywords

Human-robot relations – philosophy – phenomenology – language – construction – interpretation
IR-76182

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