Human Implications of Human-Robot Interaction

Papers from the 2006 AAAI Workshop

Ted Metzler, Program Chair

Technical Report WS-06-09 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

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Preface / vii
Ted Metzler

Organizing Committee / ix
Ted Metzler

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