[Air-L] Special Issue on Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction

[Somaya Ben Allouch]

   Special issue: The Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction

Topic

overview

Studies

in human-robot interaction have shown that, when robots enter different
contexts of our everyday lives, they influence and change those contexts
beyond their intended use purpose alone. Social scientists have referred to
this process as “mutual shaping” of technology and society. Mutual shaping
implies that technological and societal developments do not proceed in
parallel, or in a linear progression from technological development to
societal application, but rather that technology and society continuously
influence and (re)shape each other. Society changes as a direct and indirect
result of the implementation of technology, which itself
is created based on society’s (or a particular segment
of society’s) wants, needs, beliefs,
and practices. The mutual shaping of technology and society
approach focuseson analyzing how social
and cultural factors influence the way technologies are designed, implemented
, used, and evaluated, as well as how technologies affect our construction of
social values and meanings.

Call for Papers

   The aim of this special issue is to collect
   an overview of theoretical and empirical state-of-the-art
   research contributions on lessons learned about the mutual shaping of
   robots and society. Therefore, theInternational Journal of
   Social Robotics invites researchers from the many disciplines
   and approaches that intersect with the development and evaluation of
   robot systems (e.g. human-robot interaction,
   human-computer interaction, human factors, engineering,
   computer sciences, (interactive)
   design, sociology, communication science, anthropology, psychology, etc
   .) to submit to this Special Issue.

   We invite a diversity of
   topics from researchers and practitioners from a wide variety of fields
    focusing on how social factors
   affect whether people choose to use robots, and (or) how robot design
   factors affect thesocial contexts in which robots are used.
   Topics include (but not limited to):

   •                Human-robot (non)adoption and (non)use

   •                Human-robot interaction

   •                Mutual shaping of robots and society

   •                Evaluation of robot applications and contexts of use

   •                Socially intelligent robotics

   •                Multimodal assessment technologies

   •                Design of robotics systems

   •                Social analysis of robotics

   •                Social cognitive systems


   To submit your
   paper, login to the journal’s editorial system: [1]http://www.editorial
   manager.com/soro/default.aspx

   When submitting your papers, please select the option
   “SI: The Mutual Shaping of
   Human-Robot Interaction” from the “Choose article type” pull-down
   menu.

   A general description of the International Journal of
   Social Robotics, its aims and scope,
   and authors' submission guidelines can be found here:

   [2]http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12369


   Please submit the journal manuscripts by January 31, 2018.

   The Editorial Board is committed to speedy review, fast publication,
   and high scientific impact.


Guest Editors

   Somaya
   Ben Allouch - Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

   Maartje De Graaf - Brown University, USA

   Selma Šabanović - Indiana University, USA

   Friederike Eyssel - Bielefeld University, Germany

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References

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   2. http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12369