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Human Implications of
Human-Robot Interaction
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Technical Report WS-06-09
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Human Implications of
Human-Robot Interaction
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Ted Metzler, Chair
Technical Report WS-06-09
AAAI Press
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Organizing Committee
Ted Metzler, Ph.D.
[email protected]
Wimberly School of Religion, Oklahoma City University
2501 N. Blackwelder
Oklahoma City, OK, 73106, USA
Associate Members
Wolfgang Achtner, Ph.D.
[email protected]
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Giessen, Germany
Lundy Lewis, Ph.D.
[email protected]
Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH, USA
This AAAI–06 Workshop was held July 17, 2006,
in Boston, Massachusetts USA
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Contents
Preface / vii
The Emergence of Self-Conscious Systems: From Symbolic AI
to Embodied Robotics / 1
Klaus Mainzer
Representations of the Brain and the Mind in Computer Science:
Is There Room for Religious Concepts? / 7
Lundy Lewis
Potential Impacts of HRI upon Different Understandings of Morality / 15
Theodore A. Metzler
A Moral Paradox in the Creation of Artificial Intelligence:
Mary Poppins 3000s of the World Unite / 23
Mark Walker
Altered Attitudes of People toward Robots: Investigation
through the Negative Attitudes toward Robots Scale / 29
Tatsuya Nomura, Tomohiro Suzuki, Takayuki Kanda, and Kensuke Kato
Toward Understanding Children’s and Adults’ Encounters with Social Robots / 36
Gail F. Melson, Peter H. Kahn, Alan Beck, and Natya Friedman
Functional Brain Imaging and the Body-Mind Problem:
The Royal Way or a Blind End? / 43
Boris Kotchoubey
Ethical, Psychological and Social Implications of
Brain-Computer Interface Application in Paralyzed Patients / 48
Femke Nijboer, Tamara Matuz, Andrea Kübler, and Niels Birbaumer
Robot as Rorschach: New Complicities for Companionship / 51
Sherry Turkle
A Neo-Luddite Manifesto; Or Why I Do Not Love Robots / 61
Nicholas Hunt-Bull
Clear Speaking about Machines: People are Exploring Mars, Not Robots / 66
William J. Clancey
Robots and Anthropomorphism / 69
Margaret A. Boden
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