The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze [Paperback]

Chapter 01 Welcome home, robots Chapter 02 Robots in the family Chapter 03 AI, robots, and the gaze of gods Chapter 04 Science fiction robots as metaphors, muses, and allies Chapter 05 Promises of sex robots Chapter 06 The object of a robot gaze? References

The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze illuminates the connection between the stories people tell, their expectations of what a robot is, and how these beliefs and values manifest in how real robots are designed and used.?

The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze illuminates the connection between the stories people tell, their expectations of what a robot is, and how these beliefs and values manifest in how real robots are designed and used.

The introduction of the human gaze articulates how peoples expectations and perceptions about robots are ultimately based on deeply personal cultural interpretations of what is artificial or human and what problems social robots should or should not solve. The Naked Android clarifies how human qualities like understanding and desire are designed into robots as mediums as well as projected onto them by the people who live with them.

By investigating the fluidity of identities across human culture and social robotics, this book unpacks the contextual complexities of their interactions and mutual influences. Using ethnographic methods including in-depth interviews with a variety of stakeholders, each chapter explores how people are designing social robots, the experience of living with robots, and people whose jobs it is to dream about a future integrated with robots.

Key Features:

• Introduces the concept of the human gaze (and the robot gaze) as means of understanding how people live with robots.
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