Mehrbod Manavi
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2023
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Carros, F., Jockisch, S., Manavi, M. & Wulf, V. (2023)Fears about Social Robots in Nursing
doi:10.48340/ihc2023_p020
[BibTeX] [Abstract]As the nursing sector’s shortcomings remain unchanged, social robots are becoming increasingly relevant. While real-life encounters are uncommon, the media and fiction continue to impact people’s perceptions of robots. Capabilities and shortcomings are frequently exaggerated, producing a vision of automated technology that will replace human labor. This article focuses on the topic of worries associated with robot use. Most stakeholders are concerned about disenfranchisement and data protection. They create uncertainties about how the introduction of robots will affect people’s lives and work situations. This article compiles the concerns of various parties and advocates for the transparent and participatory development of robots in nursing.
@inproceedings{carros_fears_2023, title = {Fears about {Social} {Robots} in {Nursing}}, doi = {10.48340/ihc2023_p020}, abstract = {As the nursing sector's shortcomings remain unchanged, social robots are becoming increasingly relevant. While real-life encounters are uncommon, the media and fiction continue to impact people's perceptions of robots. Capabilities and shortcomings are frequently exaggerated, producing a vision of automated technology that will replace human labor. This article focuses on the topic of worries associated with robot use. Most stakeholders are concerned about disenfranchisement and data protection. They create uncertainties about how the introduction of robots will affect people's lives and work situations. This article compiles the concerns of various parties and advocates for the transparent and participatory development of robots in nursing.}, author = {Carros, Felix and Jockisch, Sabine and Manavi, Mehrbod and Wulf, Volker}, month = sep, year = {2023}, } -
Hille, N., Bürvenich, B., Carros, F., Manavi, M., Wieching, R., Matsumoto, Y. & Wulf, V. (2023)The Effects of Android Robots Displaying Emotion on Humans: Interactions between Older Adults and Android Robots
, Publisher: arXiv doi:10.48550/arXiv.2303.13624
[BibTeX] [Abstract] [Download PDF]Often robots are seen as a means to an end to fulfill a logical objective task. Android robots, on the other hand, provide new possibilities to fulfill emotional tasks and could therefore be integrated into assistive scenarios. We explored this possibility by letting older adults and stakeholders have a conversation with an android robot capable of expressing emotion through facial expressions. The study was carried out with a wizard-of-oz approach and data collected with a mixed methods approach. We found that the participants were encouraged to speak more with the robot due to its smile. Simultaneously, many ethical questions were raised about transparency and manipulation. Our research can give valuable insight into the reaction of older adults to android robots that show emotions.
@misc{hille_effects_2023, title = {The {Effects} of {Android} {Robots} {Displaying} {Emotion} on {Humans}: {Interactions} between {Older} {Adults} and {Android} {Robots}}, shorttitle = {The {Effects} of {Android} {Robots} {Displaying} {Emotion} on {Humans}}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13624}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2303.13624}, abstract = {Often robots are seen as a means to an end to fulfill a logical objective task. Android robots, on the other hand, provide new possibilities to fulfill emotional tasks and could therefore be integrated into assistive scenarios. We explored this possibility by letting older adults and stakeholders have a conversation with an android robot capable of expressing emotion through facial expressions. The study was carried out with a wizard-of-oz approach and data collected with a mixed methods approach. We found that the participants were encouraged to speak more with the robot due to its smile. Simultaneously, many ethical questions were raised about transparency and manipulation. Our research can give valuable insight into the reaction of older adults to android robots that show emotions.}, urldate = {2023-03-30}, publisher = {arXiv}, author = {Hille, Nora and Bürvenich, Berenike and Carros, Felix and Manavi, Mehrbod and Wieching, Rainer and Matsumoto, Yoshio and Wulf, Volker}, month = mar, year = {2023}, note = {arXiv:2303.13624 [cs]}, keywords = {Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science - Robotics}, annote = {Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, CHI 2023}, } -
Heinemann, S., Manavi, M., Taugerbeck, S., Bräuer, J., Wolf, A., Colak, C., Müller, D., Sauerwald, J., Unbehaun, D. & Wulf, V. (2023)The Narrative Future of (digital) Care – Envisioning Care Fiction(s) in Education-based and professional Care Settings
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This paper explores future opportunities for care through practice-based inter-ventions in real care settings and the use of design fiction as a method. Based on real innovation spaces within care-schools, we applied a design fiction approach to conceptualize and envision future care scenarios that include prototypical so-lutions for a digital transformation for both, people who in care contexts and people in need of care. We reflect on the content and implications of care fictions developed in collaboration with care-schools for shaping future systems of care and health in rural areas. With …
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2022
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Chang, Y., Carros, F., Manavi, M. & Rathmann, M. (2022)How do Roboticists Imagine a Robotised Future? A Case Study on a Japanese HRI Research Project
doi:10.20944/preprints202204.0081.v1
[BibTeX] [Abstract] [Download PDF]This study observes, interprets, and analyses the knowledge production in the research field of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI). It intends to foreground the hidden assumptions that are often taken for granted when roboticist design and conduct their research. By doing so, this study demonstrates how these assumptions influence the result of their research. Based on data collected through sociological field observation, this study argues that the current practise in HRI research is highly anthropocentric. In short, the robots are designed to be like human instead of for human. Therefore, the human–robot relationship embodies the existing power relations between human beings. These relations generate inequality, hierarchy, and dominance, which are the opposite of the common imagination of the robotised future among roboticists. For the purpose of enabling the robotised future closer to their ideal, this study suggests that HRI researchers to go beyond the conventional methodology, to allow a human–robot relationship that realises reciprocity.
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Carros, F., Bürvenich, B., Browne, R., Matsumoto, Y., Trovato, G., Manavi, M., Homma, K., Ogawa, T., Wieching, R. & Wulf, V. (2022)Not that Uncanny After All? An Ethnographic Study on Android Robots Perception of Older Adults in Germany and Japan
Social Robotics. Cham, Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland, Pages: 574–586 doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_51
[BibTeX] [Abstract] [Download PDF]Intercultural studies are scarce but yet insightful to better understand reactions of older adults to human-like Android robot behavior. They help to see which reactions of participants are universal and which are country specific. Research with android robots and older adults has many results that are based on online research with pictures or on research that has been carried out in labs in one country. Within a Japanese-European research project, we had the rare occasion to work with an android robot in both countries and compare the results. We collected data from 19 participants that were invited in a Living Lab at two universities in Japan and Germany. The data contains interviews, videos and questionnaires and was analyzed with a mixed method approach. Results indicate that the android robots of this study are not in the valley of the uncanny valley theory. We could observe that the older adults and stakeholders from both countries were open to talk to the robot, some even about private topics, while others preferred to use the robot to retrieve information. German participants wished for more gestures, while Japanese participants were keen on the relatively little number of gestures. With this work we contribute to a broader understanding on how older adults perceive android robots and could show that an android robot with its human-like appearance is not seen as uncanny.
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