Designing Robotic Imaginaries: Narratives and Futures

Cristina Zaga, Eun Jeong Cheon, Norman Makoto Su, Mafalda Gamboa, Joseph La Delfa, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Simone Rebaudengo, James Auger, Maria Luce Lupetti, Michal Luria, Haipeng Mi

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Abstract

Current status quo, beliefs, and wishes about robotic technologies are shaped by centuries of stories that people have told about humans and machines and our relationships. How we imagine future robotic technology thus influences how we act in society to what is possible and desirable. At the intersection of the design and HRI, a growing body of work explicitly addresses how we shape robotic imaginaries narratives to develop alternative imaginaries and futures through design futuring. In this chapter, we introduce a set of diverse designing futuring approaches that have been explored and used in human-robot interaction (HRI) to critique, provoke, examine, and challenge assumptions, values, ideologies, and socio-behavioral norms embedded implicitly and explicitly in HRI design.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationDesigning Interactions with Robots
Subtitle of host publicationMethods and Perspectives
PublisherCRC Press
Pages100-131
Number of pages32
ISBN (Electronic)9781040183670
ISBN (Print)9781032442129
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2024

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • General Engineering
  • General Social Sciences

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