Perspectives on Social Robots: From the Historic Background to an Experts' View on Future Developments
Perspectives on Social Robots: From the Historic Background to an Experts' View on Future Developments
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社交机器人透视：从历史背景到专家对未来发展的看法
DOI：
10.1145/3197768.3197774
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发表时间：
2018
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Christian Fron
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作者：
Oliver Korn;G. Bieber;Christian Fron
社交机器人不仅在协作环境中与人类互动，而且在家庭服务和医疗保健等个人环境中与人类互动。一些社交机器人模拟感觉（同伴），而另一些只是帮助提升（助手）。然而，它们往往会激起人们的好奇和恐惧：社交机器人应该拥有什么样的能力，什么样的能力应该是人类独有的？我们提供了机器人和相关机器发展的历史背景（1），讨论了社会机器人的例子（2），并在欧洲主动和辅助生活计划（AAL）论坛内进行了一项关于其未来所需能力和应用的专家研究（3）。研究结果表明，社交机器人情感感知所需的大多数技术都被认为已经准备就绪。对于护理机器人，专家们批准了与健康相关的任务，如抽血，而他们更喜欢人类做护理任务，如洗涤。在更大的社会规模上，社交机器人的接受度随着熟悉程度的增加而显著增加，使得健康机器人甚至军用无人机比性爱机器人或儿童伴侣机器人更容易被无子女夫妇接受。因此，社交机器人的接受度似乎随着所涉及的面对面情绪的程度而降低。
Social robots are robots interacting with humans not only in collaborative settings, but also in personal settings like domestic services and healthcare. Some social robots simulate feelings (companions) while others just help lifting (assistants). However, they often incite both fascination and fear: what abilities should social robots have and what should remain exclusive to humans? We provide a historical background on the development of robots and related machines (1), discuss examples of social robots (2) and present an expert study on their desired future abilities and applications (3) conducted within the Forum of the European Active and Assisted Living Programme (AAL). The findings indicate that most technologies required for the social robots' emotion sensing are considered ready. For care robots, the experts approve health-related tasks like drawing blood while they prefer humans to do nursing tasks like washing. On a larger societal scale, the acceptance of social robots increases highly significantly with familiarity, making health robots and even military drones more acceptable than sex robots or child companion robots for childless couples. Accordingly, the acceptance of social robots seems to decrease with the level of face-to-face emotions involved.