| Description |
xxii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Natural language processing (NLP) ; v. 8 |
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Natural language processing (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 8
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| Contents |
Section I. Setting the scene: In good company? On the threshold of robotic companions / Sherry Turkle -- Introducing artificial Companions / Yorick Wilks -- Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues: Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges / Luciano Floridi -- Conditions for Companionhood / Stephen G. Pulman -- Arius in cyberspace: Digital Companions and the limits of the person / Kieron O'Hara -- Section III. Social and psychological issues: What should a Companion be like?: Conversationalists and confidants / Margaret A. Boden -- Robots should be slaves / Joanna J. Bryson -- Wanting the impossible: The dilemma at the heart of intimate human-robot relationships / Dylan Evans -- Falling in love with a Companion / David Levy -- Identifying your accompanist / Will Lowe -- Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion / Daniela M. Romano -- New Companions / Alex Taylor, Anab Jain and Laurel Swan -- On being a Victorian Companion / Yorick Wilks-- Section IV. Design issues: Building a Companion: The use of affective and attentive cues in an empathic computer-based Companions / Nikolaus Bee...(et al) -- GRETA: Towards an interactive conversational virtual Companion / Elisabetta Bevacqua...(et al) -- Companionship is an emotional business / Roddy Cowie -- Artificial Companions in society: Consulting the users / Alan Newell -- Requirements for Artificial Companions: It's harder than you think / Aaron Sloman -- You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you / Alan FT Winfield -- Section V. Special purpose Companions: A Companion for learning in everyday life / Rebecca Eynon and Chris Davies -- The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion / Sergei Nirenburg -- Living with robots: Ethical tradeoffs in eldercare / Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey -- Section VI. Afterward: Summary and discussion of the issues / Malcom Peltu and Yorick Wilks |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human-computer interaction.
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Natural language processing (Computer science)
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Artificial intelligence.
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| Author |
Wilks, Yorick, 1939-
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| LC no. |
2009048316 |
| ISBN |
9789027249944 hb alkaline paper |
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9027249946 hb alkaline paper |
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9789027288400 eb alkaline paper |
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9027288402 eb alkaline paper |
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