Robot Interaction
Lecture 5 + Literature
, Lecture & Literature - Summary
Psychology of relating to robots
1ST PAPER
Alone together - Alan Turkle
Why do we expect more from technology and less
from each other?
In a zoom lecture you are all together, but you are still alone at your desk.
Second life - “in-between reality”
o A platform where you could present yourself as an avatar in a sort of game.
o Here people could build their “second life”.
Digital connectedness and companionship
Turkle interprets Companionship as companionship between humans
Authenticity (= echtheid)
o Turkle believes that through all this technology, taken into account the second self,
this blurs our sense of authenticity
We do not have an actual understanding anymore of the authentic self or
the authentic other.
What is the purpose of living beings?
Humans – trailer (how robots may substitute humans in the future)
Sociability, relating to each other
o If you replace humans by robots, what does this say about us?
An illusion of companionship will be created.
Robots can be designed to substitute were humans fail.
o Humans cheat, lie, steal.
Of every technology we must ask: “does it serve our human purposes”
o Wat do we want from technology and what are we willing to do to accommodate it?
o Are we willing to reduce our relationships to mere connections?
Which human purposes are suitable to be served by robots?
2TH PAPER
Theory of Companions - paper from Kraemer et. al., 2011
There are 3 levels:
1. Microlevel - communication
a. Prerequisites for communication (actual interaction)
1. Perspective taking
People can take perspective by:
Understanding other’s feelings, thoughts, motivation
Lecture 5 + Literature
, Lecture & Literature - Summary
Psychology of relating to robots
1ST PAPER
Alone together - Alan Turkle
Why do we expect more from technology and less
from each other?
In a zoom lecture you are all together, but you are still alone at your desk.
Second life - “in-between reality”
o A platform where you could present yourself as an avatar in a sort of game.
o Here people could build their “second life”.
Digital connectedness and companionship
Turkle interprets Companionship as companionship between humans
Authenticity (= echtheid)
o Turkle believes that through all this technology, taken into account the second self,
this blurs our sense of authenticity
We do not have an actual understanding anymore of the authentic self or
the authentic other.
What is the purpose of living beings?
Humans – trailer (how robots may substitute humans in the future)
Sociability, relating to each other
o If you replace humans by robots, what does this say about us?
An illusion of companionship will be created.
Robots can be designed to substitute were humans fail.
o Humans cheat, lie, steal.
Of every technology we must ask: “does it serve our human purposes”
o Wat do we want from technology and what are we willing to do to accommodate it?
o Are we willing to reduce our relationships to mere connections?
Which human purposes are suitable to be served by robots?
2TH PAPER
Theory of Companions - paper from Kraemer et. al., 2011
There are 3 levels:
1. Microlevel - communication
a. Prerequisites for communication (actual interaction)
1. Perspective taking
People can take perspective by:
Understanding other’s feelings, thoughts, motivation
