Papers by Pericle Salvini
2013 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2013
ABSTRACT Human likeness of social agents is crucial for human partners to interact with the agent... more ABSTRACT Human likeness of social agents is crucial for human partners to interact with the agents intuitively because it makes the partners unconsciously respond to the agents in the same manner as what they show to other people. Although many studies suggest that an agent's human likeness plays an important role in human-robot interaction, it remains unclear how to design humanlike form that evokes interpersonal behavior from human partners. One approach is to make a copy of an existing person. Although this extreme helps us explore how we recognize another person, the Uncanny Valley effect must be taken into account. Basic questions, including why we experience the uncanny valley and how we overcome it should be addressed to give new insights into an underlying mechanism in our perception of human likeness. Another approach is to extract crucial elements that represent human appearance and behavior, as addressed in design of computer-animated human characters. The exploration of minimal requirement to evoke interpersonal behavior from human partners provides more effective and simpler way to design social agents that facilitate communication with human.
Advances in Autonomous Mini Robots, 2012
... G. Macrì . S. Orofino . E. Spadoni . P. Dario Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna – The B... more ... G. Macrì . S. Orofino . E. Spadoni . P. Dario Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna – The BioRobotic Institute, Pontedera (PI), Italy S. Coppedè Istituto Comprensivo "G.Mariti" – Fauglia (PI), Italy S. Sacchini . P. Guiggi Scuola Secondaria Dante Alighieri, Capannoli (PI), Italy Page 2. 28 ...
In this paper, I propose an alternative explication of presence based on the theoretical framewor... more In this paper, I propose an alternative explication of presence based on the theoretical framework provided by theatrical presence. In my opinion, a unified and consistent discourse about presence has emerged since the earliest theorizations and explications of telepresence in the '80s. Scholars, scientists, engineers, psychologists, philosophers and virtual reality experts have defined remote and virtual presence according to a common denominator: the assumption that presence is the result of subjective sensory rich experience mainly given by immersion and unilateral activity (vision and action). On the contrary, according to the explication proposed in this paper, presence occurs when natural and/or technological conditions allow for reciprocal relationships. Finally, political and social issues related to presence and remote presence are taken into account.
In discussions about teleoperation systems and virtual reality environments, the notion of distan... more In discussions about teleoperation systems and virtual reality environments, the notion of distance, i.e. in physical space, is often considered as a problem, causing many technological bottlenecks, such as time delay, communication breakdowns, lack of communication services quality, etc. In this paper, however, we propose to shift the engineering viewpoint, and to consider distance from an anthropological standpoint, that is, not as a source of "technological problems" but as the source of moral implications. In other words, we will review some of the sociological and psychological effects that the abnegation of distance, which is currently brought about by telepresence technologies, plays and has played on the moral dimension of human beings.
International Journal of Technoethics, 2000
ABSTRACT In this paper, the author proposes a theoretical framework for drawing a line between ac... more ABSTRACT In this paper, the author proposes a theoretical framework for drawing a line between acceptable and non-acceptable technologies, with a focus on autonomous social robots. The author considers robots as mediations and their ethical acceptance as depending on their impact on the notion of presence. Presence is characterised by networks of reciprocity which make human beings subject and object of actions and perceptions at the same time. Technological mediation can either promote or inhibit the reciprocity of presence. A medium that inhibits presence deserves ethical evaluation since it prevents the possibility of a mutual exchange, thus creating a form of power. Autonomous social robots are a special kind of technological mediation because they replace human presence with a simulation of presence. Therefore, in interactions between human beings and autonomous robots, attention should be paid to the consequences on legal, moral, and social responsibility, and, at the same time, the impact of simulated forms of presence on human beings.
... and P. Dario, Wireless capsule endosopy: from diagnostic devices to multipurpose robotic sys... more ... and P. Dario, Wireless capsule endosopy: from diagnostic devices to multipurpose robotic systems, Biomed Micordevices, Dec., 2006 [6] The European Group on Ethics makes public in Brussels its opinion on the Ethical aspects of patenting inventions involving human stem ...
ABSTRACT 1 In this paper the European flagship project proposal Robot Companion for Citizens (RCC... more ABSTRACT 1 In this paper the European flagship project proposal Robot Companion for Citizens (RCC), grounded on the idea of developing robot companions for citizens, is taken as a case scenario for investigating the feasibility of ascribing rights and duties to autonomous robots from a legal and philosophical standpoint. In talking about rights and duties with respect to robots endowed with autonomous decision capabilities, one should face the implications that inevitably these terms rise, especially in the field of law. The paper points out the technological problems related to the application of the notion of duty to robots and the problems deriving from attributing a legal subjectivity to non-human entities such as robot.
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Amsterdam, 2008
Traditionally, UML (Unified Modelling Language) has been applied for supporting the description a... more Traditionally, UML (Unified Modelling Language) has been applied for supporting the description and the design of software systems, by providing designers with a good method for reasoning on problems and solutions. Its extension, UMLi (Unified Modelling Language for Interactive Applications) has been applied for modelling GUI (Graphic User Interfaces). This paper explores the use of UMLi for the design of human-robot interaction and for modelling human-robot interfaces based on the user's requirements, the workflow of tasks, and the multimodality of interaction. Finally, we provide a case study taken from the domain of service robotics, where a minimally adapted version of UMLi has been used to help modelling human-robot interfaces.
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