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Close Engagements with Artificial Companions Natural Language Processing (NLP) The scope of NLP ranges from theoretical Computational Linguistics topics to highly practical Language Technology topics. The focus of the series is on new results in NLP and modern alternative theories and methodologies. Editor Ruslan Mitkov University of Wolverhampton SLES Stafford St WOLVERHAMPTON, WV1 1SB, UK E-mail: [email protected] Advisory Board Christian Boitet Andrei Mikheev Key-Yih Su University of Grenoble University of Edinburgh Behaviour Design Corp. John Carroll John Nerbonne Isabel Trancoso University of Sussex, Brighton University of Groningen INESC, Lisbon Eugene Charniak Nicolas Nicolov Benjamin Tsou Brown University, Providence Umbria Inc., Boulder City University of Hong Kong Eduard Hovy Kemal Oflazer Junichi Tsujii Information Sciences Institute, Sabanci University University of Tokyo USC Allan Ramsey Evelyne Tzoukermann Richard Kittredge UMIST, Manchester Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill University of Montreal Monique Rolbert Yorick Wilks Geoffrey N. Leech Universite de Marseille University of Sheffield Lancaster University Richard Sproat Carlos Martín-Vide AT&T Labs Research, Rovira i Virgili Un., Tarragona Florham Park Editorial Assistant Miranda Chong Volume 8 Close Engagements with Artificial Companions. Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues Edited by Yorick Wilks Close Engagements with Artificial Companions Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues Edited by Yorick Wilks University of Oxford John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Close engagements with artificial companions : key social, psychological, ethical and design issues / edited by Yorick Wilks. p. cm. (Natural Language Processing, issn 1567-8202 ; v. 8) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Human-computer interaction. 2. Natural language processing (Computer science) 3. Artificial intelligence. I. Wilks, Yorick, 1939- QA76.9.H85C44115 2010 006.3--dc22 2009048316 isbn 978 90 272 4994 4 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 8840 0 (Eb) © 2010 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa For Roberta and the children, for everything, as always Table of contents Foreword xi Acknowledgements xii Contributors xiii Section I. Setting the scene In good company? On the threshold of robotic companions 3 Sherry Turkle Introducing artificial Companions 11 Yorick Wilks Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges 23 Luciano Floridi Conditions for Companionhood 29 Stephen G. Pulman Arius in cyberspace: Digital Companions and the limits of the person 35 Kieron O’Hara Section III. Social and psychological issues: What should a Companion be like? Conversationalists and confidants 59 Margaret A. Boden Robots should be slaves 63 Joanna J. Bryson viii Close Engagements with Artificial Companions Wanting the impossible: The dilemma at the heart of intimate human-robot relationships 75 Dylan Evans Falling in love with a Companion 89 David Levy Identifying your accompanist 95 Will Lowe Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion 101 Daniela M. Romano New Companions 107 Alex Taylor, Anab Jain and Laurel Swan On being a Victorian Companion 121 Yorick Wilks Section IV. Design issues: Building a Companion The use of affective and attentive cues in an empathic computer-based Companions 131 Nikolaus Bee, Elisabeth Andre, Thurid Vogt and Patrick Gebhard GRETA: Towards an interactive conversational virtual Companion 143 Elisabetta Bevacqua, Ken Prepin, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Etienne de Sevin and Catherine Pelachaud A world-hybrid approach to a conversational Companion for reminiscing about images 157 Roberta Catizone, Simon F. Worgan, Yorick Wilks, Alexiei Dingli and Weiwei Cheng Companionship is an emotional business 169 Roddy Cowie Artificial Companions in society: Consulting the users 173 Alan Newell Requirements for Artificial Companions: It’s harder than you think 179 Aaron Sloman Table of contents ix You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you 201 Alan FT Winfield Section V. Special purpose Companions A Companion for learning in everyday life 211 Rebecca Eynon and Chris Davies The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion 221 Sergei Nirenburg Living with robots: Ethical tradeoffs in eldercare 245 Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey Section VI. Afterword 257 Summary and discussion of the issues 259 Malcom Peltu and Yorick Wilks References 287 Index 309
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