Negotiating Actors: ANT and Social Robotics.

Autor: Possati, Luca M.
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Zdroj: Techne: Research in Philosophy & Technology; 2024, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p1-21, 21p
Abstrakt: This paper intends to address social robotics from the Actor-network theory (ANT) perspective. Starting from the critique of Seibt's approach and the distinction between anthropomorphing and sociomorphing, the paper proposes a new methodological approach based on ANT and negotiation concepts. This approach allows us to: a) assume a more symmetrical ontology in which robots are considered as social agents, like humans; b) consider all the interactional elements as of equal importance; and c) overcome the dualistic limit that is often imposed on social robotics studies, i.e., the tendency to consider only the one-to-one relationship, one man-one robot, inside the laboratory. Anthropomorphing and sociomorphing are the results of a negotiation process that cannot be reduced to a series of degrees of simulation, but must be understood as a complex interactional process between many agents and material mediations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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