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Ascribing Gender to a Social Robot

Gender ascription to robots may lead to willingly or inadvertently repeating gender stereotypes. ... more Gender ascription to robots may lead to willingly or inadvertently repeating gender stereotypes. To reduce this risk, it is important to delineate how gender is spontaneously assigned to robots. The present study explores spontaneous ascription of gender to a social robot with minimal visual gender cues. A total of N=63 participants partook and were engaged in interaction with the robot for 45–50 minutes. The majority (n=36) ascribed gender to the robot, mainly based on voice. The remaining participants still assigned mental capacities to the robot. The implications of the results are discussed.

Intercivilizational dialogue: Introduction

Robots and Artificial Intelligence: Posthumanism as Robophilosophy

Value Conflicts: Introduction

A Generic Scale for Assessment of Attitudes Towards Social Robots: The ASOR-5

Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations - Proceedings of Robo-Philosophy 2014, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2014

The robotics industry is growing rapidly, and to a large extent the development of this market se... more The robotics industry is growing rapidly, and to a large extent the development of this market sector is due to the area of social robotics the production of robots that are designed to enter the space of human social interaction, both physically and semantically. Since social robots present a new type of social agent, they have been aptly classified as a disruptive technology, i.e. the sort of technology which affects the core of our current social practices and might lead to profound cultural and social change. Due to its disruptive and innovative potential, social robotics raises not only questions about utility, ethics, and legal aspects, but calls for robo-philosophy the comprehensive philosophical reflection from the perspectives of all philosophical disciplines. This book presents the proceedings of the first conference in this new area, Robo-Philosophy 2014 Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in August 2014. The short papers and abstr...

Dialogue and Intercultural Thought: Introduction to Part I

Global Dialogue in Action: Introduction

What Social Robots Can and Should Do - Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016 / TRANSOR 2016, Aarhus, Denmark, October 17-21, 2016

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6 Ontological Tools for the Process Turn in Biology Some Basic Notions of General Process Theory

Recently philosophers of biology have presented arguments calling for a reconceptualization of th... more Recently philosophers of biology have presented arguments calling for a reconceptualization of the biological domain that is focused on processes, or even exclusively formulated in terms of processes (Dupre 2012; Falkner and Falkner 2013; Koutroufinis 2014b). Such arguments for a 'process turn' in biology could be strengthened if one could show that recasting biological phenomena in the classificatory terms of a sufficiently precisely formulated process-ontological framework can increase explanatory depth in biology and serve as a heuristic for empirical research. But is there an ontological theory out there that those interested in the process turn in biology could turn to? From Aristotle onwards, ontology has been under the spell of what I have called the 'myth of substance' -a set of unreflected presuppositions for ontological theory construction that prescribe a focus on static entities, mainly a dualism of particulars and universals, as the most 'natural&#39...

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Understanding Emotions and Their Significance through Social Robots, and Vice Versa

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

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Classifying Forms and Modes of Co-Working in the Ontology of Asymmetric Social Interactions (OASIS

M. Coeckelbergh J. Loh, M. Funk, J. Seibt, M. Nørskov (eds.). 2018. Envisioning Robots in Society –Power, Politics, and Public Space, Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2018 / TRANSOR 2018, Series; Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, Amsterdam., 2018

Since robots cannot work, in the full sense of the term, humans cannot work together with robots.... more Since robots cannot work, in the full sense of the term, humans cannot work together with robots. The so-called 'cooperation' with robots can take many forms for which we need a new description language. OASIS, the Ontology of Asymmetric Social Interactions, was developed with the goal of providing a simple yet sufficiently precise and discriminative classificatory framework for interactions where one interaction partner fails to possess the capacities required for human normative action and merely simulates such capacities. The framework shall facilitate the interdisciplinary integration of human-robot interaction research and more generally the development of an interdisciplinary theory of sociality. In OASIS five modes of simulations are distinguished and each human action is associated with a matrix listing the possible combinations of modes of simulations of the parts of the action. OASIS uses familiar distinctions in forms of collective intentionality to classify diffe...

Five Principles of Integrative Social Robotics

Envisioning Robots in Society –Power, Politics, and Public Space, Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2018 / TRANSOR 2018, Series; Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, Amsterdam., 2018

&quot; Integrative Social Robotics &quot; (ISR) is a new approach or general method for g... more &quot; Integrative Social Robotics &quot; (ISR) is a new approach or general method for generating social robotics applications that are culturally sustainable (Seibt 2016). The paper briefly recapitulates the primary motivation for ISR. Currently social robotics is caught in a compounded version of the Collingridge dilemma—a triple gridlock of description, evaluation, and regulation tasks. In a second step we describe how ISR can overcome this gridlock, presenting five principles that should guide the research, design, and development (RDD) process for applications in social robotics. Characteristic of ISR is to intertwine a mixed method approach (i.e., conducting experimental, quantitative, qualitative, and phenomenological research for the same envisaged application) with conceptual and axiological analysis in philosophy; moreover, ISR is value-driven and abides by the &quot; non-replacement principle &quot; : social robots may only do what humans should but cannot do. In conclusion we suggest, with reference to a classification of different formats of pluridisciplinary research by Nersessian and Newstetter (2013), that ISR may establish social robotics as a new transdiscipline.

Integrative Social Robotics " -A New Method Paradigm to Solve the Description Problem And the Regulation Problem

The aim of this paper is to sketch the basic motivations for " Integrative Social Robotics &... more The aim of this paper is to sketch the basic motivations for " Integrative Social Robotics " (ISR), as a new paradigm for how to approach research, design, and development of social robotics applications that are culturally sustainable. I argue that social robotics saddles us with normative-regulatory and descriptive questions that currently are kept too far apart. Currently HRI research investigates what social robots can do and robo-ethicists deliberate afterwards what robots should do. However, given the rapid pace of the robotics industry, descriptive and regulatory questions must be treated in combination. On the ISR approach research in social robotics turns on what social robots can and should do-design and development are from the very beginning informed by value-theoretic and cultural research. ISR thus is a form of research organization that integrates robotics with empirical, conceptual, and value-theoretic research in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and th...

Afterthought – The problem of the many

Foundational Reseach on Value Conflicts and Perspectives for Global Policy, 2014

Varieties of the 'As-If': Five Ways to Simulate an Action

Much of the ethical debate about social robotics applications hinges on the ontological classific... more Much of the ethical debate about social robotics applications hinges on the ontological classification of our interactions with robots, but a detailed ontological account of simulated social interaction is still missing. In this paper I briefly explain why characterizations of human-robot interactions are best undertaken in a neutral, ‘technical’ idiom. Then I define five modes of simulation (functionally replicating, imitating, mimicking, displaying, and approximating) in terms of relations between processes. I sketch how these notions can be used to describe more precisely what a certain robot ‘can do.’ In conclusion I sketch a general strategy for developing a fine-grained taxonomy of social interactions.

Wilfried Sellars

Towards an Ontology of Simulated Social Interaction: Varieties of the “As If” for Robots and Humans

Sociality and Normativity for Robots

The paper develops a general conceptual framework for the ontological classification of human-rob... more The paper develops a general conceptual framework for the ontological classification of human-robot interaction. After arguing against fictionalist interpretations of human-robot interactions, I present five notions of simulation or partial realization, formally defined in terms of relationships between process systems (approximating, displaying, mimicking, imitating, and replicating). Since each of the n criterial processes for a type of two-agent interaction IN can be realized in at least six modes (full realization plus five modes of simulation), we receive a (6^n X n) X (6^n X n) matrix of symmetric and asymmetric modes of realizing IN, called the simulatory expansion of interaction type IN. Simulatory expansions of social interactions can be used to map out dfferent kinds and degrees of sociality in human-human and human-robot interaction, relative to current notions of sociality in philosophy, anthropology, and linguistics. The classficatory framework developed (SISI) thus represents the field of possible simulated social interactions. SISI can be used to clarify which conceptual and empirical grounds we can draw on to evaluate capacities and affordances of robots for social interaction and it provides the conceptual means to build up a taxonomy of human-robot interaction.

Applicant Fairness Perceptions of a Robot-Mediated Job Interview: A Video Vignette-Based Experimental Survey

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Ontological Tools for the Process Turn in Biology

Oxford Scholarship Online

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce an outline of general process theory (GPT), a non-Whi... more The purpose of this chapter is to introduce an outline of general process theory (GPT), a non-Whiteheadian systematic process ontology, and to provide some pointers on how this framework could be applied in philosophy of biology to clarify questions of individuality, composition, and emergence. GPT is a mono-categorial framework based on the new category of more or less generic (non-particular) dynamic individuals called ‘general processes’ or ‘dynamics’. According to GPT, the world is the interaction of (more or less generic) dynamics. The chapter sets out some elements of a non-standard mereology (with non-transitive part relations) on processes and introduces the five-dimensional classification system of GPT. It is shown how the theoretical predicates of homeomereity and automereity can be used to distinguish between developments and ‘non-developmental’ or ‘dynamically stable’ temporally unbounded activities that persist in time by literal recurrence.

Ascribing Gender to a Social Robot