In:Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues
Edited by Yorick Wilks
[Natural Language Processing 8] 2010
► pp. vii–x
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Published online: 24 March 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/nlp.8.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/nlp.8.toc
Table of contents
Foreword
Acknowledgementsxii
Contributors
Section I. Setting the scene
In good company? On the threshold of robotic Companions
Introducing artificial Companions
Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues
Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges
Conditions for Companionhood
Arius in cyberspace: Digital Companions and the limits of the person
Section III. Social and psychological issues: What should a Companion be like?
Conversationalists and confidants
Robots should be slaves
Wanting the impossible: The dilemma at the heart of intimate human-robot relationships
Falling in love with a Companion
Identifying your accompanist
Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion
New Companions
On being a Victorian Companion
Section IV. Design issues: Building a Companion
The use of affective and attentive cues in an empathic computer-based Companions
GRETA: Towards an interactive conversational virtual Companion
A world-hybrid approach to a conversational Companion for reminiscing about images
Companionship is an emotional business
Artificial Companions in society: Consulting the users
Requirements for Artificial Companions: It’s harder than you think
You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you
Section V. Special purpose Companions
A Companion for learning in everyday life
The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion
Living with robots: Ethical tradeoffs in eldercare
Section VI. Afterword
Summary and discussion of the issues
References
Index
