Book description
Robots That Talk and Listen provides a forward-looking examination of speech and language in robots from technical, functional, and social perspectives.
Contributors address cultural foundations as well as the linguistic skills and technologies that robots need to function effectively in real-world settings. Among the most difficult and complex is the ability to understand and use language.
Speech-enabled automata are already serving as interactive toys, teacher’s aides, and research assistants. These robots will soon be joined by personal companions, industrial co-workers, and military support automata.
The social impact of these and other robots extends well beyond the specific tasks they perform. Contributors tackle the most knotty of those issues, notably acceptance of advanced, speech-enabled robots and developing ethical and moral controls for robots.
Topics in this book include:
• Language and Beyond: The True Meaning of “Speech Enabled”
• Robots in Myth and Media
• Enabling Robots to Converse
• Language Learning by Automata
• Handling Noisy Settings
• Empirical Studies of Robots in Real-World Environments
• Acceptance of Intelligent Robots
• Managing Robots that Can Lie and Deceive
• Envisioning a World Shared with Intelligent Robots
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of contributing authors
- About the Editor
- Preface
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Part I: Images
- My robot
- Cultural icons
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Android aesthetics: Humanoid robots as works of art
- I Introduction
- II The history of automata for art and entertainment
- III The Philip K. Dickandroid
- IV Robot components
- V Building a dialogue system
- VI Conversational competence
- VII The scientific value of androids
- VIII The value of androids as art
- IX The uncanny valley: a possible obstacle to artistic androids
- X Consciousness
- XI Conclusion
- References
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Part II: Frameworks and Guidelines
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Enabling human-robot dialogue
- I Introduction
- II Review of the literature
- III A framework for human-robot dialogue-systems
- IV Enabling effective human-robot dialogue
- V Opportunities and challenges for future work
- VI Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Robots can talk â but can they teach?
- Comprehension, Coherence and Consistency: Essentials of Robot Feedback
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Enabling human-robot dialogue
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Part III: Learning
- Extensible grounding of speech for robot instruction
- Lies and deception: Robots that use falsehood as a social strategy
- Robotic learning from multimodal instructions: a card game case study
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Part IV: Design
- Real-time audition system for autonomous mobile robots
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The effects of design choices on human-robot interactions in children and adults
- I Introduction
- II Prior work â the evolution of the role of robots
- III Social schemas and social metaphors
- IV Design choices in lower-level communication modalities
- V Design choices in higher-level communication modalities
- VI Effects of developmental differences on design choices
- VII Conclusions and future work
- References
- Part V: Conclusion
- Index
Product information
- Title: Robots that Talk and Listen
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2014
- Publisher(s): De Gruyter
- ISBN: 9781614519157
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