The In-between Machine - The Unique Value Proposition of a Robot or Why we are Modelling the Wrong Things

Johan Hoorn, Elly Konijn, Desmond Germans, Sander Burger, Annemiek Munneke

2015

Abstract

We avow that we as researchers of artificial intelligence may have properly modelled psychological theories but that we overshot our goal when it came to easing loneliness of elderly people by means of social robots. Following the event of a documentary film shot about our flagship machine Hanson’s Robokind “Alice” together with supplementary observations and research results, we changed our position on what to model for usefulness and what to leave to basic science. We formulated a number of effects that a social robot may provoke in lonely people and point at those imperfections in machine performance that seem to be tolerable. We moreover make the point that care offered by humans is not necessarily the most preferred – even when or sometimes exactly because emotional concerns are at stake.

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Hoorn J., Konijn E., Germans D., Burger S. and Munneke A. (2015). The In-between Machine - The Unique Value Proposition of a Robot or Why we are Modelling the Wrong Things . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-074-1, pages 464-469. DOI: 10.5220/0005251304640469


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@conference{icaart15,
author={Johan Hoorn and Elly Konijn and Desmond Germans and Sander Burger and Annemiek Munneke},
title={The In-between Machine - The Unique Value Proposition of a Robot or Why we are Modelling the Wrong Things },
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2015},
pages={464-469},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005251304640469},
isbn={978-989-758-074-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - The In-between Machine - The Unique Value Proposition of a Robot or Why we are Modelling the Wrong Things
SN - 978-989-758-074-1
AU - Hoorn J.
AU - Konijn E.
AU - Germans D.
AU - Burger S.
AU - Munneke A.
PY - 2015
SP - 464
EP - 469
DO - 10.5220/0005251304640469