Meaningful Futures with Robots

Dr. Judith Dörrenbächer is a design researcher at the chair for “Ubiquitous Design / Experience and Interaction” at the University of Siegen. Educated in design, her current focus is on performative methods in design, on theories about animism transferred to HCI and design (techno-animism) and on interaction and design strategies of social robots. Ronda Ringfort-Felner is a research assistant at the chair for “Ubiquitous Design / Experience and Interaction” at the University of Siegen. With a background in design and HCI, her research focuses on design fiction, the design and exploration of future intelligent autonomous systems such as social robots, and the exploration of the related societal and social implications. Robin Neuhaus is a research assistant at the chair for “Ubiquitous Design / Experience and Interaction“ at the University of Siegen. With a background in industrial design and HCI, his current research focuses on the design of experiences and interactions with robots, voice assistants and other non-human actors. Dr. Marc Hassenzahl is Professor for "Ubiquitous Design / Experience and Interaction" at the University of Siegen. He combines his training in psychology with a love for interaction design. With his group of designers and psychologists, he explores the theory and practice of designing pleasurable, meaningful and transforming interactive technologies.

1. Towards Designing Meaningful Relationships with Robots

2. Concept and Content of the Book

Part 1 Designing a New Species Interaction Design and Product Design of Robots

3. How to Design Robots with Superpowers

Robin Neuhaus, Ronda Ringfort Felner, Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl

4. Social Robots Should Mediate, not Replace, Social Interactions

Timo Kaerlein

5. Neither Human Nor Computer —A Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaboration in Autism Therapy

Ronda Ringfort-Felner, Judith Dörrenbächer

6. Counting Characters and Spaces—On Robot Disabilities, Robot Care, and Technological Dependencies

Lenneke Kuijer

7. Designing Robots with Personality

Lara Christoforakos, Sarah Diefenbach, Daniel Ullrich

8. Designing Robots as Social Counterparts— A Discussion about a Technology Claiming its Own Needs

Lara Christoforakos, Tobias Störzinger

9. Falling in Love With a Machine— What Happens if the Only Affection a Person Gets is From Machines?

Felix Carros (F.C.), Anne Wierling (A.W.), Adrian Preussner (A.P.)

10. I am Listening to You!—How to Make Different Robotic Species Speak the Same Language

Judith Dörrenbächer, Anne Wierling

11. How to Really Get in Touch with Robots—Haptic Interaction Technologies for VR and Teleoperation

Bernhard Weber, Thomas Hulin, Lisa Schiffer

Part 2 Designing Future Enviroments—Social Innovation Initiated by Robots

12. Design Fiction—The Future of Robots Needs Imagination

Ronda Ringfort-Felner, Robin Neuhaus, Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl

13. Cramer’s Funeral Service for Androids

Uwe Post

14. Googly Eyes

Marc Hassenzahl

15 Empathizing with Robots—Animistic and Performative Methods to Anticipate a Robot’s Impact

Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl

16. From the Lab to a Real-World Supermarket— About Anticipating the Chances and Challenges of a Shopping

Robot Robin Neuhaus, Judith Dörrenbächer

17. Dominant, Persuasive or Polite?— About Human Curiosity, Provocative Users and Solving Conflicts between Humans and Robots

Judith Dörrenbächer

18. Seven Observations, or Why Domestic Robots are Struggling to Enter the Habitats of Everyday Life

James Auger

19. Is this a Patient or a Wall?— Adapting Robots from an Industrial Context to a Rehabilitation Clinic

Jochen Feitsch, Bernhard Weber

20. Robotics x Book Studies Imagining a Robotic Archive of Embodied Knowledge

Corinna Norrick-Rühl

21. "That’s the Future, I’m Telling You.”

Antje Herden

22. Graphic Recording Cool Johanna Benz

Part 3 Designing together with People— Civic Participation and Ethical Implications Concerning Robots

23. Citizen Participation in Social Robotics Research

Felix Carros, Johanna Langendorf, Dave Randall, Rainer Wieching, Volker Wulf

24. Learning from Each Other— How Roboticists Learn from Users and how Users Teach their Robots

Felix Carros, Adrian Preussner

25. My Friend Simsala, the Robot

Edi Haug, Laura M. Schwengber

26. Move Away from the Stereotypical User in the Picture-perfect Scenario—A Plea for Early and Broad User Integration

Stephanie Häusler Weiss, Kilian Röhm, Tobias Störzinger

27. Is it Good?— A Philosophical Approach Towards Ethics Centered- Design (ECD)

Catrin Misselhorn, Manuel Scheidegger, Tobias Störzinger

28. Are Robots Good at Everything? A Robot in an Elementary School

Elke Buttgereit

29. The Medium has a Message Educational Robots in a Didactic Triangle

Scarlet Schaffrath

30. The Friendly Siblings of Workhorses and Killer Robots—About Becoming Alive Through the Nonliving, and Feeling Blessed by a Religious Machine

Ilona Nord