Social roboticists design their robots to function as social agents in interaction with humans and other robots. Although we do not deny that the robot’s design features are crucial for attaining this aim, we point to the relevance of spatial organization and coordination between the robot and the humans who interact with it. We recover these interactions through an observational study of a social robotics laboratory and examine them by applying a multimodal interactional analysis to two moments of robotics practice. We describe the vital role of roboticists and of the group of preverbal infants, who are involved in a robot’s design activity, and we argue that the robot’s social character is intrinsically related to the subtleties of human interactional moves in laboratories of social robotics. This human involvement in the robot’s social agency is not simply controlled by individual will. Instead, the human–machine couplings are demanded by the situational dynamics in which the robot is lodged.
10 abody 10 adesign 10 agesture 10 ahuman–robot interaction 10 alaboratory 10 asocial agency 10 asocial robotics 10 aspatial organization 1 aAlač, M. 1 aMovellan, J. 1 aTanaka, F. uhttps://rubi.ucsd.edu/content/when-robot-social-spatial-arrangements-and-multimodal-semiotic-engagement-practice-social 01782nas a2200217 4500008004100000022002500041245006000066210005800126260001200184300001200196490000700208520111200215653001501327653001201342653003301354653002301387653003601410653002001446100001401466856008401480 2009 eng d a0306-3127, 1460-3659 00 aMoving Android On Social Robots and Body-in-Interaction 0 aMoving Android On Social Robots and BodyinInteraction c08/2009 a491-528 0 v39 3 a| Social robotics studies embodied technologies designed for social interaction. This paper examines the implied idea of embodiment using as data a sequence in which practitioners of social robotics are involved in designing a robot's movement. The moments of learning and work in the laboratory enact the social body as material, dynamic, and multiparty: the body-in-interaction. In describing subject—object reconfigurations, the paper explores how the well-known ideas of extending the body with instruments can be applied to a technology designed to function as our surrogate. |
10 aembodiment 10 agesture 10 ahuman—technology extension 10 alaboratory studies 10 amultimodal semiotic interaction 10 asocial robotics 1 aAlač, M. uhttps://rubi.ucsd.edu/content/moving-android-social-robots-and-body-interaction