The ontological and functional status of robots: How firm our representations are?
The ontological and functional status of robots: How firm our representations are?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.060
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发表时间：
2015-09-01
影响因子：
9.9
通讯作者：
Zibetti, Elisabetta
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作者：
Gaudiello, Ilaria;Lefort, Sebastien;Zibetti, Elisabetta
机器人代表是一个移动的目标：根据我们以前的经验和使用环境，我们不断地重新发明我们认为是“机器人”的东西。在本文中，我们调查青少年的机器人表示，特别关注教育机器人。通过机器人表示，我们指的是它的（i）本体和（ii）功能状态。特别是，我们试图了解青少年的判断是否（i）和（ii）的变化，当他们成为熟悉的机器人。为了这个目的，我们进行了一项实验性研究，在机器人活动期间与79名参与者进行了前后问卷调查：RoboParty。结果表明，建立和编程的机器人促进了一个更细致入微的判断机器人属于生活和非生活类，但在另一方面，一个更明确的判断教育功能，机器人可能服务。因此，在当代社会技术发展的这个阶段，机器人似乎与生命实体共享一些东西，与非生命实体共享一些其他东西。就像生命实体一样，机器人拥有承认程度的本体论地位;类似于非生命实体，机器人需要具有精确的功能，以便用户与它们进行有意义的交互。此外，与我们的预测和当前的文献相反，在青少年的本体论中似乎没有出现除了生命和非生命之外的新类别。然而，线索指出，与机器人打交道可能会对传统的常识本体论的边界产生影响进行了讨论。(C)2015爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Robot representation is a moving target: according to our previous experience and to the context of use, we constantly reinvent what we consider to be 'robot'. In this paper we investigate teenagers' robot representation, with special concerns to educational robots. By robot representation we mean its (i) ontological and (ii) functional status. Particularly, we seek to understand whether teenagers' judgment about (i) and (ii) changes when they become acquainted with robots. To this aim, we carried out an experimental study with pre- and post-questionnaires with 79 participants during a robotic event: the RoboParty. Results show that building and programming a robot fosters a more nuanced judgment about robots' belonging to the living and non-living categories but, on the other side, a more definite judgment about the educative functions that a robot may serve. Thus, at this stage of technology development in contemporary society, robots seem to share something with living entities and some other things with non-living ones. Just like living entities, robots hold an ontological status that admits degrees; similarly to non-living entities, robots need to have a precise function in order for users to have a meaningful interaction with them. Moreover, contrary to our prediction and to current literature, no new category beyond those of living and non-living ones-seems to emerge in teenagers' ontology. However, cues pointing out that dealing with robots might have an impact on traditional boundaries of common-sense ontology are discussed. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.