Technological Fantasies of Nao: remarks about alterity relations
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Technological Fantasies of Nao : remarks about alterity relations. / Hasse Jørgensen, Stina; Tafdrup, Oliver Alexander.
In: Transformations, No. 29, 6, 02.02.2017, p. 88-103.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Technological Fantasies of Nao
T2 - remarks about alterity relations
AU - Hasse Jørgensen, Stina
AU - Tafdrup, Oliver Alexander
PY - 2017/2/2
Y1 - 2017/2/2
N2 - This article will through a ‘what-if’ scenario involving the humanoid robot, Nao, as a museum guide, discuss the potential benefits of theorizing social robots through a perspective grounded in critical design and postphenomenology. Within Science and Technology-studies (STS) postphenomenology has been the ‘go-to’ theory when discussing the philosophical aspects of human-technology relations. Postphenomenology directly addresses how humans on a phenomenological level relate to robots through an ‘alterity-relation’ that establishes the robot as a ‘quasi-other’. A methodological discussion of how to conductempirical postphenomenological research into robotics, has, however, not been thoroughly unfolded, although the question of a general postphenomenological methodology has been touched upon. This article provides a contribution to the debate on how to enquire into human-robot relations.In this article we will argue that critical design provides a methodological framework compliant with postphenomenological mode of analysis. Furthermore we will argue that our empirical data is capable of eliciting aspects of how ideological shaped technological fantasies function to sustain the experience of Nao as a ‘quasi-other’, even though Nao fails to function properly.
AB - This article will through a ‘what-if’ scenario involving the humanoid robot, Nao, as a museum guide, discuss the potential benefits of theorizing social robots through a perspective grounded in critical design and postphenomenology. Within Science and Technology-studies (STS) postphenomenology has been the ‘go-to’ theory when discussing the philosophical aspects of human-technology relations. Postphenomenology directly addresses how humans on a phenomenological level relate to robots through an ‘alterity-relation’ that establishes the robot as a ‘quasi-other’. A methodological discussion of how to conductempirical postphenomenological research into robotics, has, however, not been thoroughly unfolded, although the question of a general postphenomenological methodology has been touched upon. This article provides a contribution to the debate on how to enquire into human-robot relations.In this article we will argue that critical design provides a methodological framework compliant with postphenomenological mode of analysis. Furthermore we will argue that our empirical data is capable of eliciting aspects of how ideological shaped technological fantasies function to sustain the experience of Nao as a ‘quasi-other’, even though Nao fails to function properly.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Social robots
KW - Nao
KW - Critical Design
KW - Postphenomenology
M3 - Journal article
SP - 88
EP - 103
JO - Transformations
JF - Transformations
SN - 1444-3775
IS - 29
M1 - 6
ER -
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