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2012
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(2012): Service robots in the mirror of reflective research. In: Poiesis & Praxis: International Journal of Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment 9 (3-4), S. 181-200. DOI: 10.1007/s10202-012-0111-8
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23226994 Abstract: Service robotics has increasingly become the focus of reflective research on new technologies over the last decade. The current state of technology is characterized by prototypical robot systems developed for specific application scenarios outside factories. This has enabled context-based Science and Technology Studies and technology assessments of service robotic systems. This contribution describes the status quo of this reflective research as the starting point for interdisciplinary technology assessment (TA), taking account of TA studies and, in particular, of publications from the ethical and empirical social science perspective. Finally, based on this status quo, evaluation criteria for service robots are developed, which are relevant for further reflective research.
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(2012): Service robots on their way? First steps of an interdisciplinary technology assessment. In: Poiesis & Praxis: International Journal of Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment 9 (3-4), S. 177-180. DOI: 10.1007/s10202-012-0112-7
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23226993 Abstract: Therefore, framing the problems and developing research questions out of it becomes the key for any interdisciplinary project (Decker 2001). For the interdisciplinary TA project on service robotics, to which the papers of this focus contribute, the problem setting and the identification of the relevant disciplines were described elsewhere (Decker et al. 2011; Decker 2012). Since the project aims for a TA of service robotics on a general level (even though referring to case studies for illustration), the relevant disciplines include economics, ethics, jurisprudence and psychology of work. While the first three are traditionally part of an interdisciplinary TA, the latter one is crucial in the context of replacing human beings in their service work environments.
2011
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(2011): Service robotics. Do you know your new companion? Framing an interdisciplinary technology assessment. In: Poiesis & Praxis: International Journal of Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment 8 (1), S. 25-44. DOI: 10.1007/s10202-011-0098-6
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22162963 Abstract: Service-Robotic - mainly defined as "non-industrial robotics" - is identified as the next economical success story to be expected after robots have been ubiquitously implemented into industrial production lines. Under the heading of service-robotic, we found a widespread area of applications reaching from robotics in agriculture and in the public transportation system to service robots applied in private homes. We propose for our interdisciplinary perspective of technology assessment to take the human user/worker as common focus. In some cases, the user/worker is the effective subject acting by means of and in cooperation with a service robot; in other cases, the user/worker might become a pure object of the respective robotic system, for example, as a patient in a hospital. In this paper, we present a comprehensive interdisciplinary framework, which allows us to scrutinize some of the most relevant applications of service robotics; we propose to combine technical, economical, legal, philosophical/ethical, and psychological perspectives in order to design a thorough and comprehensive expert-based technology assessment. This allows us to understand the potentials as well as the limits and even the threats connected with the ongoing and the planned implementation of service robots into human lifeworld-particularly of those technical systems displaying increasing grades of autonomy.
Keywords: deutsche Community, Disziplin, Humanoid Robot Robot System Industrial Robot Service Robot Driver Assistance System, interdisziplinär, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Realtechnik, service robot, Serviceroboter, Soziale Robotik, Technik, Technikfolgenabschätzung, Zeitschrift: poiesis & praxis
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