Article ID: CBB715929643

What makes a robot ‘social’? (August 2017)

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Rhetorical moves that construct humanoid robots as social agents disclose tensions at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and social robotics. The discourse of robotics often constructs robots that are like us (and therefore unlike dumb artefacts). In the discourse of STS, descriptions of how people assimilate robots into their activities are presented directly or indirectly against the backdrop of actor-network theory, which prompts attributing agency to mundane artefacts. In contradistinction to both social robotics and STS, it is suggested here that to view a capacity to partake in dialogical action (to have a ‘voice’) is necessary for regarding an artefact as authentically social. The theme is explored partly through a critical reinterpretation of an episode that Morana Alač reported and analysed towards demonstrating her bodies-in-interaction concept. This paper turns to ‘body’ with particular reference to Gibsonian affordances theory so as to identify the level of analysis at which dialogicality enters social interactions.

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Authors & Contributors
Lin, Wen-yuan
Becerra, Javier Andrés Jiménez
Victoria Lush
Moats, David
María Belén Albornoz
Alfian Nur Wicaksono
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Actor-network theory
Case studies
Ethnography
Modernity
Human beings
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Sweden
Poland
Germany
France
Taiwan
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