Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Section 1: Robots in Culture and Society
5. Future Presence: Living with Social Robots 21
6. Representing Robots in Popular Culture 47
7. Designing Robots That are Accepted in Human Social Environments: Anthropomorphism, the Intentional Stance, Cultural Norms and Values, and Societal Implications 63
8. Are Robotic Bodies (Part of) Social Bodies? 85
9. Persons or Things: The Role of Robots in Society 105
10. Automated Masspersonal Social Engineering 119
11. Section 2: Humanistic and Social Scientific Perspectives
12. Linguistics
13. AI and Human Writing: Collaboration or Appropriation? 137
14. Law
15. Policies, Regulation, and Legal Perspectives on Social Robots 161
16. How Social Robots Affect Privacy: Navigating the Landscape 179
17. Sociology
18. Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and the Evolution of the Social Sciences 203
19. Human Interactions With (Embodied) AI: The Future of Authenticity in Human–AI Relation(ship)s 221
20. Psychology and Neuroscience
21. Mind Perception During and After Interacting with Artificial Agents 241
22. How People Perceive Social Robots: The Case of Gender 261
23. Relating with Social Robots: Issues of Sex, Love, Intimacy, Emotion, Attachment, and Companionship 277
24. Real or Pretend? How Children Ontologize Social Robots as Mental and Moral Others 295
25. Communication and Computer Sciences
26. Rethinking Communication between Humans and Social Robots 313
27. Interacting with Social Robots: The Influence of their Distinctive Cues, Behavioral Capabilities, and Affordances on Social Interaction and Well-being 335
28. Integrating Big-Data Tools to Study AI and Human–Machine Communication: Methodology Strengths, Future Directions, and Applications 355
29. Social Robots and Children: A Field in Development 371
30. Section 3: Contexts of Human–Robot Interaction
31. Anthropomorphizing Voice Assistants: A Research Agenda for Human–AI Relationships 391
32. Domestic Appliances and Household Robots: The Changing Landscape of Housework and Family 411
33. Ability and Disability: Social Robots and Accessibility, Disability Justice, and the Socially Constructed Normal Body 429
34. Growing Old Together: The Promise and Challenge of Social Robots for Older Adults 447
35. Power and Synchrony in Human Collaboration with Exoskeletons 467
36. Index 489