Department of Social Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain.
Automatic Control Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC BarcelonaTech, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 May 12;15(5):970. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15050970.
This paper analyzes children’s imaginaries of Human-Robots Interaction (HRI) in the context of social robots in healthcare, and it explores ethical and social issues when designing a social robot for a children’s hospital. Based on approaches that emphasize the reciprocal relationship between society and technology, the analytical force of imaginaries lies in their capacity to be embedded in practices and interactions as well as to affect the construction and applications of surrounding technologies. The study is based on a participatory process carried out with six-year-old children for the design of a robot. Imaginaries of HRI are analyzed from a care-centered approach focusing on children’s values and practices as related to their representation of care. The conceptualization of HRI as an assemblage of interactions, the prospective bidirectional care relationships with robots, and the engagement with the robot as an entity of multiple potential robots are the major findings of this study. The study shows the potential of studying imaginaries of HRI, and it concludes that their integration in the final design of robots is a way of including ethical values in it.
本文分析了儿童在医疗保健领域中对人机交互（HRI）的想象，并探讨了在为儿童医院设计社交机器人时的伦理和社会问题。基于强调社会与技术之间相互关系的方法，想象的分析力在于它们能够嵌入实践和互动中，并影响周围技术的构建和应用。该研究基于与 6 岁儿童一起进行的参与式设计机器人的过程。从以关怀为中心的方法分析了 HRI 的想象，重点关注儿童的价值观和实践，以及他们对关怀的表现。将 HRI 概念化为互动的组合、与机器人的预期双向关怀关系，以及将机器人作为具有多种潜在机器人的实体进行参与，是本研究的主要发现。该研究表明了研究 HRI 想象的潜力，并得出结论，将其纳入机器人的最终设计是将伦理价值观纳入其中的一种方式。
