Towards a conceptualisation and critique of everyday life in HRI

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Robotics and AI

Glenda Hannibal¹  Karolina Zawieska² 

[1] Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany;School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark;

关键词: human-robot interaction;    social robots;    everyday life;    lived experiences;    conceptualisation;    critique;   

DOI  :  10.3389/frobt.2023.1212034

 received in 2023-04-25, accepted in 2023-08-17,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This paper focuses on the topic of “everyday life” as it is addressed in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research. It starts from the argument that while human daily life with social robots has been increasingly discussed and studied in HRI, the concept of everyday life lacks clarity or systematic analysis, and it plays only a secondary role in supporting the study of the key HRI topics. In order to help conceptualise everyday life as a research theme in HRI in its own right, we provide an overview of the Social Science and Humanities (SSH) perspectives on everyday life and lived experiences, particularly in sociology, and identify the key elements that may serve to further develop and empirically study such a concept in HRI. We propose new angles of analysis that may help better explore unique aspects of human engagement with social robots. We look at the everyday not just as a reality as we know it (i.e., the realm of the “ordinary”) but also as the future that we need to envision and strive to materialise (i.e., the transformation that will take place through the “extraordinary” that comes with social robots). Finally, we argue that HRI research would benefit not only from engaging with a systematic conceptualisation but also critique of the contemporary everyday life with social robots. This is how HRI studies could play an important role in challenging the current ways of understanding of what makes different aspects of the human world “natural” and ultimately help bringing a social change towards what we consider a “good life.”

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