Research Article
Talking to Robots: On the Linguistic Construction of Personal Human-Robot Relations
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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_16, author={Mark Coeckelbergh}, title={Talking to Robots: On the Linguistic Construction of Personal Human-Robot Relations}, proceedings={Human-Robot Personal Relationships. Third International Conference, HRPR 2010, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 23-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={HRPR}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={human-robot relations philosophy phenomenology language construction interpretation}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_16} }- Mark Coeckelbergh
Year: 2012
Talking to Robots: On the Linguistic Construction of Personal Human-Robot Relations
HRPR
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_16
Abstract
How should we make sense of ‘personal’ human-robot relations, given that many people view robots as ‘mere machines’? This paper proposes that we understand human-robot relations from a phenomenological view as social relations in which robots are constructed as quasi-others. It is argued that language mediates in this construction. Responding to research by Turkle and others, it is shown that our talking robots (as opposed to talking robots) reveals a shift from an impersonal third-person to a personal second-person perspective, which constitutes a different kind of human-robot relation. The paper makes suggestions for empirical research to further study this social-phenomenological process.
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