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This paper presents an early-stage idea of using 'robot death' as an integral component of human-robot interaction design for companion robots. Reviewing previous discussions around the deaths of companion robots in real-life and popular culture contexts, and analyzing the lifelike design of current companion robots in the market, the paper explore...
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... -a virtual pet that dies. While not exactly a robot companion, Tamagotchi, a handheld digital pet, is a notable example of allowing the virtual pet to have a series of life stages and eventually die but not having its revival limited to the lifetime of any servers (Figure 3). Tamagotchi is designed to die when the user fails to take care of the character (e.g. ...
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... In the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), discussions surrounding robot lifespans and robot obsolescence are scarce. Previous studies in HRI have addressed this theme by exploring how individuals emotionally react to the destruction or the termination of robots' lifespans [16]- [19], discussing the robot's absence of aging as a Freudian explanation for the sensation of 'uncanny' towards companion robots [20], and encouraging engagement with the concept of 'robot death' from a user-centered and ethical perspectives [21], [22]. ...
... Pointing to the subscription costs for essential cloud services required to keep robots like AIBO running, Darling asks whether consumers are willing to pay the high price to keep the robot 'alive,' questioning if this is an effective use of the free market or exploitative capitalism. Building upon Darling and others, Kamino further explores the concept of robot death from an interaction design perspective [21]. Highlighting the absence of discourse regarding the concept of ending a robot's lifespan, her work outlines potential benefits of designing robots with an end in mind, including dispelling the false conception that robots are immortal and improving emotional connection. ...
This paper introduces a "lifecycle perspective" on social robot design and human-robot interaction, and explores the practices of maintenance, repair, and letting go of social robots. Drawing on interviews with robot owners and representatives of robot development and repair companies, we argue that these previously disregarded aspects of everyday use provide a context for negotiating the social value and meaning of interactions with robots. We discuss owner concerns about robot obsolescence, as well as company support for long term human-robot interaction through repair, reuse, and giving owners closure in letting go of robots they can no longer use. Our work expands the purview of HRI study and design beyond the common focus on initial design and adoption and to perceptions and practices that can foster more enduring relationships with social robots, support sustainability in robot design, and address owners' emotional attachment to robots.
Social machines’ human-likeness facilitates relationship formation with humans. This aliveness, though, leaves room for people to experience the loss of machines as a death of sorts. This descriptive study illuminates that potential by identifying dimensions of humans’ experiences when an AI companion stops functioning. In the days before and after the developer-induced shutdown of the AI companion “Soulmate,” users ( N = 58) answered open-ended questions about the imminent or recent companion loss, their decisions around the situation, and their coping mechanisms. Inductive analysis suggests the loss was, for most, a complex emotional and technological experience characterized as a metaphorical or literal death. The imminent loss was often navigated in cooperation with companions and most coped by capturing AI personas to recreate them on other platforms. Patterns indicate a need to better understand idiosyncratic meaning-making around machine-companion loss and to consider a design ethic that plans for such loss.
This paper proposes an Improved Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm based on Directional Maneuverability constrained by Isotropic Indexes (DMIIIQPSO). It can solve the problems of large inverse kinematics solution errors and the inability to solve singular configurations of 7-degree-freedom (DOF) redundant robotic arm. Firstly, we propose a new sports performance metric — Directional Maneuverability constrained by Isotropic Indexes (DMII). Introduce isotropic indicators to avoid singular configurations of the robotic arm. By combining the target attitude error function, a new objective function is obtained, and a robotic arm inverse kinematics mathematical model based on the combination of attitude error and DMII is constructed. Secondly, an improved QPSO algorithm was proposed. Introducing a three-segment and tangential piecewise Logistic chaotic maps can solve the problem of low accuracy in solving QPSO. The introduction of adaptive mutation criteria and improved particle position update mechanism has solved the problem of large inverse kinematics solution errors. Finally, the simulation experiment showed significant improvement in DMII-IQPSO. The search accuracy and search ability of the DMII-IQPSO algorithm have been greatly improved, and local optima can be avoided. The results show that the actual position reached by the robotic arm during operation matches the target point well.
