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Investigating and designing social robots from a role-theoretical perspective: Response to “Social interaction with robots—three questions”. In Gesa Lindemann (this volume)

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Abstract

As proposed by the editors, we give statements to two of the questions formulated above, briefly sketch some basics of a role-based approach to socio-technical innovation and give some examples, as to why a role-based approach might be helpful for observing and contributing to the field of Social Robotics.

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  1. It could be another conceptual advantage of this independence from concrete “incumbents” that individual characteristics are not necessary for modeling. Hence privacy is not a critical issue here at least in principle. But we will not address normative questions in this article.

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Meister, M., Schulz-Schaeffer, I. Investigating and designing social robots from a role-theoretical perspective: Response to “Social interaction with robots—three questions”. In Gesa Lindemann (this volume). AI & Soc 31, 581–585 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-015-0635-2

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