turkle and the robots
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Partial summary of Sherry Turkle's Alone Together bookTRANSCRIPT
Turkle and The Robots
Overview of Alone TogetherDr. R. Redekopp
Robots as Companions
“We reduce relationship and come to see this as the norm” (p.55)
Nexi
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Robots as Companions
Alterity – seeing the world through the eyes of someone else
LeonardoVideo
Robots as Companions
“Without alterity, there can be no empathy.”
Robots as Companions
“Children need to be with people to develop mutuality and empathy” (p. 56)
FurbyVideo
Robots as Companions
Attachment without responsibility – artificial emotion.
AIBOVideo
Robots as Companions
A robot “promises friendship but can only deliver performance” (p. 101)
Robots as Companions
Confiding very personal info – like a confession booth?
ParoVideo
Robots as Companions
“We put robots on a terrain of meaning, but they don’t know what they mean. And they don’t mean anything at all.” (p. 124)
Robots as Companions
Robots make it easier to leave the elderly alone – without the guilt.
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Robots as Companions
We try to cover for the robots to make them seem better than they are.
Robots as Companions
The more robots can do, the more we attribute ‘caring’ to them.
We interpret the robot’s emotions for them.