Close engagements with artificial companions
Subtitle: key social, psychological, ethical and design issues
By: edited by Yorick Wilks.
Contributors: Wilks, Yorick, 1939-
Series: Natural language processing -- v. 8
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9789027249944; 9789027288400
Subjects: Human-computer interaction; Natural language processing (Computer science); Artificial intelligence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contributors; title: Section I. Setting the scene: in good company? On the threshold of robotic companions / Sherry Turkle; title: Introducing artificial Companions / Yorick Wilks; title: Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues: Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges / Luciano Floridi; title: Conditions for Companionhood / Stephen Pulman; title: Arius in cyberspace: Digital Companions and the limits of the person / Kieron O'Hara; title: Section III. Social and psychological issues: What should a Companion be like?: Conversationalists and confidants / Margaret A. Boden; title: Robots should be slaves / Joanna J. Bryson; title: Wanting the impossible: The dilemma at the heart of intimate human-robot relationships / Dylan Evans Falling in love with a Companion / David Levy; title: Identifying your accompanist / Will Lowe; title: Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion / Daniela M. Romano; title: New Companions / Alex Taylor, Anab Jain and Laurel Swan; title: On being a Victorian Companion / Yorick Wilks; title: Section IV. Design issues: Building a Companion: The use of affective and attentive cues in an empathic computer-based Companions / Nikolaus Bee, Elisabeth Andre, Thurid Vogt and Patrick Gebhard; title: GRETA: Towards an interactive conversational virtual Companion / Elisabetta Bevacqua, Ken Prepin, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Etienne de Sevin and Catherine Pelachaud; title: A world-hybrid approach to a conversational Companion for reminiscing about images / Roberta Catizone, Simon Worgan, Yorick Wilks, Alexiei Dingli and Weiwei Cheng; title: Companionship is an emotional business / Roddy Cowie; title: Artificial Companions in society: Consulting the users / Alan Newell; title: Requirements for Artificial Companions: It's harder than you think / Aaron Sloman; title: You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you /Alan FT Winfield; title: Section V. Special purpose Companions: A Companion for learning in everyday life / Rebecca Eynon and Chris Davies; title: The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion / Sergei Nirenburg; title: Living with robots: Ethical tradeoffs in eldercare / Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey; title: Section VI. Afterward: Summary and discussion of the issues / Malcom Peltu and Yorick Wilks; title: Index.