[Linganth] ling anth work on human-robot interaction?

[Eleanor Wynn]

Hi Rebecca, thanks for the thoughtful reply. I had a separate conversation
with Damon on this list, looking to be involved in some kind of
ethics/philosophical input to AI and robot design. All worthwhile.

Eleanor

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Rebecca Pardo <rebecca.pardo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Below is a consolidated list of the recommendations I received. These are
> great, thanks everyone. It does seem that there's little empirical analysis
> of actual h-r interactions, as in straight-up discourse analysis. Some
> context, and to partially address Eleanor's comment about what is even the
> point of all this...
>
> I'm also an anthropologist working in tech, specifically software design.
> For me, the outcome of having better analysis of human-robot interaction
> means, possibly, better robot design, that accounts for reality of behavior
> and culture. If ling anths want to understand human sociality and
> interaction, why exclude machines (not just robots) from that analysis? We
> interact with them constantly, and those interactions are specifically and
> very thoughtfully designed, designs which rely on all kinds of ideologies
> about language and communication.
>
> Linguistic anthropologists and discourse analysts need to do a better job
> communicating with interaction designers. We can't stop the robots but we
> might be able to influence how they're built to interact with us. So,
> that's what I'm trying to do.
>
> Rebecca
>
> -
> Eitan Wilf (2013) Sociable robots, jazz music, and divination​. American
> Ethnologist.
>
> (2013) From media technologies that reproduce seconds to media
> technologies that reproduce thirds: a Peircian perspective on stylistic
> fidelity and style-reproducing computerized algorithms. Signs and Society.
>
> Hirofumi Katsuno (2011) The Robot's Heart: Tinkering with Humanity and
> Intimacy in Robot-Building, Japanese Studies.
>
> Kathleen Richardson (2015) An Anthropology of Robots and AI. Routledge.
>
> Michael Agar (2015) Looking For Culture In All The Right Places: Culture
> Training For Our Poststructural Times. Cultus.
> http://cultusjournal.com/files/Archives/cultus_6_2nd_edition_2015.pdf
>
> Lucy Suchman (2007) Human-Machine Configurations. Cambridge.
>
> Jennifer Robertson (2014) Human rights vs. robot rights: forecasts from
> Japan. Critical Asian Studies.
>
> Diana Forsythe (1996) New Bottles, Old Wine: Hidden Cultural Assumptions
> in a Computerized Explanation System for Migraine Sufferers. Medical
> Anthropology Quarterly.
>
> projects at queensland
> http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/research/technology/
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Rebecca Pardo <rebecca.pardo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Has anyone come across ling anth research on Human-Robot Interaction
>> (specifically proximate interaction)? Most of the work I've encountered
>> comes from robotics, design, human factors, HCI, etc. Any suggestions would
>> be welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rebecca
>>
>> --
>> Rebecca Pardo, PhD
>> Research Director, Normative <http://normative.com/>
>> rebecca at normative.com
>> @msrmp <https://twitter.com/msrmp>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Rebecca Pardo, PhD
> Research Director, Normative <http://normative.com/>
> rebecca at normative.com
> @msrmp <https://twitter.com/msrmp>
>
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