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Dancing with the Nonhuman: A Feminist, Embodied, Material Inquiry into the Making of Human-Robot Relationships

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Petra Gemeinboeck,

Rob SaundersAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '23: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Pages 51 - 59

https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580036

Published: 13 March 2023 Publication History

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We propose that feminist reconceptualisations of agency and difference could dramatically expand our possibilities for both relating to robots in social scenarios and designing them as social agents. A performative approach to human-robot interaction favors the artefact's relational, participatory capacities over representational attributes to explore the meaning-making potential of human-machine couplings rather than the predefined meaning of an individual robotic agent. We discuss the feminist concepts of intra-action and diffraction and explore how they could expand our understanding of the workings of the interference patterns that characterize human-robot relationships. Our collaborative Machine Movement Lab project serves as a case study to look at the situated enactment of the subjects and objects that shape our human-robot relationships through the embodied lens of performance-making.

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Dancing with the Nonhuman: A Feminist, Embodied, Material Inquiry into the Making of Human-Robot Relationships
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Robotics
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping

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HRI '23: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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