An edition of Close engagements with artificial companions
(2010)
Close engagements with artificial companions
key social, psychological, ethical and design issues
by Yorick Wilks
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2010
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Close engagements with artificial companions: key social, psychological, ethical and design issues
2010, John Benjamins Pub. Company, Benjamins Publishing Company, John
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Contributors
Section I. Setting the scene: in good company? On the threshold of robotic companions / Sherry Turkle
Introducing artificial Companions / Yorick Wilks
Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues: Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges / Luciano Floridi
Conditions for Companionhood / Stephen Pulman
Arius in cyberspace: Digital Companions and the limits of the person / Kieron O'Hara
Section III. Social and psychological issues: What should a Companion be like?: Conversationalists and confidants / Margaret A. Boden
Robots should be slaves / Joanna J. Bryson
Wanting the impossible: The dilemma at the heart of intimate human-robot relationships / Dylan Evans Falling in love with a Companion / David Levy
Identifying your accompanist / Will Lowe
Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion / Daniela M. Romano
New Companions / Alex Taylor, Anab Jain and Laurel Swan
On being a Victorian Companion / Yorick Wilks
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
GRETA: Towards an interactive conversational virtual Companion / Elisabetta Bevacqua, Ken Prepin, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Etienne de Sevin and Catherine Pelachaud
A world-hybrid approach to a conversational Companion for reminiscing about images / Roberta Catizone, Simon Worgan, Yorick Wilks, Alexiei Dingli and Weiwei Cheng
Companionship is an emotional business / Roddy Cowie
Artificial Companions in society: Consulting the users / Alan Newell
Requirements for Artificial Companions: It's harder than you think / Aaron Sloman
You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you /Alan FT Winfield
Section V. Special purpose Companions: A Companion for learning in everyday life / Rebecca Eynon and Chris Davies
The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion / Sergei Nirenburg
Living with robots: Ethical tradeoffs in eldercare / Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey
Section VI. Afterward: Summary and discussion of the issues / Malcom Peltu and Yorick Wilks
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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