TY - GEN
T1 - Design Strategies for Representing the Divine in Robots
AU - Trovato, Gabriele
AU - Lucho, Cesar
AU - Huerta-Mercado, Alexander
AU - Cuellar, Francisco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 ACM.
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - Robot appearance morphology can be divided in anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and functional. In previous recent work, a new catego-ry was introduced, called "theomorphic robots", in which robots carry the shape and the identity of a supernatural creature or object within a religion. This approach can bring some advantages for certain categories of users such as children and elders. This paper is an exploratory discussion over practical design strategies for repre-senting the divine in robots, based on theoretical insights on the historical intertwinements between sacred art and robotics. The illustrated concepts will be followed in the realisation of the proto-types of the first theomorphic robots.
AB - Robot appearance morphology can be divided in anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and functional. In previous recent work, a new catego-ry was introduced, called "theomorphic robots", in which robots carry the shape and the identity of a supernatural creature or object within a religion. This approach can bring some advantages for certain categories of users such as children and elders. This paper is an exploratory discussion over practical design strategies for repre-senting the divine in robots, based on theoretical insights on the historical intertwinements between sacred art and robotics. The illustrated concepts will be followed in the realisation of the proto-types of the first theomorphic robots.
KW - culture
KW - human-robot interaction
KW - religion
KW - robot design
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U2 - 10.1145/3173386.3173388
DO - 10.1145/3173386.3173388
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85045236810
T3 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
SP - 29
EP - 35
BT - HRI 2018 - Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2018
Y2 - 5 March 2018 through 8 March 2018
ER -