Designing Robotic Artefacts

2010-10-16 09:00 GMT-1

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Nik Gaffney talks about FoAM's views on animism & materialism in robotic design, in a workshop hosted by LIREC partner SICS.

The workshop aims to shed an empirically grounded light on some of the myths about designing user centred robotic systems. For example, a robotic system modelled after a human is not necessarily a human-centred design, and an autonomous robot is not necessarily the best system from a user-centred perspective. Killing myths will also include ethical concerns, such as ethics based on user centred design versus the Asimov ethic rules developed in fiction. (...)

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