Robots that Talk and Listen: Technology and Social ImpactJudith Markowitz Robots That Talk and Listen provides a forward-looking examination of speech and language in robots from technical, functional, and social perspectives. Contributors address cultural foundations as well as the linguistic skills and technologies that robots need to function effectively in real-world settings. Among the most difficult and complex is the ability to understand and use language. Speech-enabled automata are already serving as interactive toys, teacher’s aides, and research assistants. These robots will soon be joined by personal companions, industrial co-workers, and military support automata. The social impact of these and other robots extends well beyond the specific tasks they perform. Contributors tackle the most knotty of those issues, notably acceptance of advanced, speech-enabled robots and developing ethical and moral controls for robots. Topics in this book include: • Language and Beyond: The True Meaning of “Speech Enabled” |
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... creating effective human-robot interactions. The first chapter specifies a powerful framework for multimodal and multi-party dialogues. The authors test the model in two vastly-different types of robot-human interaction: man- aging ...
... creation of one or more artifacts (e.g., drawings, collages, stories). The artifacts are seen as containing creative projections of the target concepts that can facilitate sub- sequent verbal expression of concepts. Analysis of the ...
... creating games , Web sites , action figures , and so on . Children's interest in a host of design fields ... created technologies that seamlessly meld online and offline experiences , such as computers that “ print ” real ...
... created was significantly different from existing augmenta- tive and assistive communication tools. What they created was often multi-functional and capable of supporting social communication with peers. Although these devices were not ...
... of human - robot relationships and the dimensions of human - robot activities ( e.g. , play , learning , creation , and explo- ration ) . Malevolent robots and cyborgs differ in appearance , capabilities , 127 Part I : Images B Robot study.
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Robots That Talk and Listen: Technology and Social Impact Judith Markowitz No preview available - 2015 |
Robots that Talk and Listen: Technology and Social Impact Judith A. Markowitz No preview available - 2014 |