[csaa-forum] Transformations release of Issue 29: Social Robotics

[Warwick Mules]

Transformations is launching its new website with the release of issue 29:

www.transformationsjournal.org/

SOCIAL ROBOTS: HUMAN-MACHINE CONFIGURATIONS

Human-machine relationships are being transformed by robots increasingly
performing social roles such as teachers, carers and companions. This
arrival of social robots is challenging understandings of human-machine
relationships and generating diverse aesthetic, ethical and political
debates. Matters of interest include asymmetries in human-robot
relationships, the co-constitution of humans and robots, the place of robot
labour, the significance of machine embodiment, and accounts of human-robot
communication, among other topics. Commonly, the ways in which social and
cultural norms shape social robotics do not receive enough critical
scrutiny.

This special issue of Transformations examines the ways in which
human-machine relationships are configured in social robotics. It recognises
that contemporary robotics produces and circulates cultural values, and
considers how social robots continue and diverge from other expressive and
communicative practices. In so doing it tests the scope and limits of the
category of social robotics.

As part of this issue we are delighted to launch the ŒRobots for Last Days
<http://robots4lastdays.org/> ¹ website developed by Marc Böhlen and Tero
Karppi at the State University of New York at Buffalo. ŒRobots for Last
Days¹ is a resource for anyone interested in exploring the discourse on
robotic systems designed to accompany people in the last days of their
lives. This living database allows you to compare descriptions and
perceptions of robots that care or kill from different disciplinary
perspectives. From Engineering to Art and News, this resource offers
insights into the ongoing discussion of robots and death.

CONTENTS

Marc Böhlen and Tero Karppi
The Making of Robot Care
 
Thao Phan
The Materiality of the Digital and the Gendered Voice of Siri
 
Danielle Wong
Dismembered Asian/American Android Parts in Ex Machina as ŒInorganic¹
Critique
 
David Savat and Christina Chau
Anxious Robots, Desiring Repression, Generating Profit
 
Jondi Keane and Charles Anderson
Human-Non-Human: the Speculative Robot
 
Stina Hasse Jørgensen and Oliver Tafdrup
Technological Fantasies of Nao ­ Remarks about Alterity Relations
 
Jaana Parviainen and Jari Pirhonen
Vulnerable Bodies in Human­Robot Interactions: Embodiment as Ethical Issue
in Robot Care for the Elderly
 
Erika Kerruish
Affective Touch in Social Robots



 
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