Research Article
Loving Machines: Theorizing Human and Sociable-Technology Interaction
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_1, author={Glenda Shaw-Garlock}, title={Loving Machines: Theorizing Human and Sociable-Technology Interaction}, 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={automatons social robots human robot interaction actor-network theory}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_1} }- Glenda Shaw-Garlock
Year: 2012
Loving Machines: Theorizing Human and Sociable-Technology Interaction
HRPR
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_1
Abstract
Today, human and sociable-technology interaction is a contested site of inquiry. Some regard social robots as an innovative medium of communication that offer new avenues for expression, communication, and interaction. Other others question the moral veracity of human-robot relationships, suggesting that such associations risk psychological impoverishment. What seems clear is that the emergence of social robots in everyday life will alter the nature of social interaction, bringing with it a need for new theories to understand the shifting terrain between humans and machines. This work provides a historical context for human and sociable robot interaction. Current research related to human-sociable-technology interaction is considered in relation to arguments that confront a humanist view that confine ‘technological things’ to the nonhuman side of the human/nonhuman binary relation. Finally, it recommends a theoretical approach for the study of human and sociable-technology interaction that accommodates increasingly personal relations between human and nonhuman technologies.