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Boundary-Crossing Robots: Societal Impact of Interactions with Socially Capable Autonomous Agents

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2019)

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The paper introduces the notion of a Boundary-Crossing Robot which refers to the use of AI research and novel technology in symbiotic interaction with human users, especially in the meaning creation processes that make the world sensible and interpretable in the course of everyday activities. Co-evolution of collaboration is considered from the point of view of social robots with dual characteristics as agents and elaborated computers, and the focus is on the robot’s interaction capability. The paper emphasizes important questions related to trust in social encounters with boundary-crossing agents.

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    http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/212371_en.html.

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    http://www.jst.go.jp/erato/ishiguro/en/.

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    Robotic Devices for Nursing Care (http://robotcare.jp/?lang=en).

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    https://us.aibo.com/.

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    https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/attitudes-towards-impact-digitisation-and-automation-daily-life.

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    https://dot.asahi.com/dot/2018120300014.html (in Japanese).

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This study is based on the results obtained from a project commissioned by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP19H04416.

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    Kristiina Jokinen

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    Miguel A. Salichs

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    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. Faculty of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

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  4. Mechanical & Industrial, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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    Hongsheng He

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Jokinen, K., Watanabe, K. (2019). Boundary-Crossing Robots: Societal Impact of Interactions with Socially Capable Autonomous Agents. In: Salichs, M., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_1

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