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Human Robot Interaction and Fiction: A Contradiction

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In this position paper a perspective on how movies and science fiction are currently shaping the design of robots is presented. This analysis includes both behaviour and embodiment in robots. We discuss popular movies that involve robots as characters in their storyline, and how people’s beliefs and expectations are affected by what they see in robot movies. A mismatch or contradiction emerges in what the robots of today can accomplish and what the movies portray. In order to overcome this mismatch we present design implications that may be of benefit to HRI designers.

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  1. HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    Eduardo Benitez Sandoval

  2. School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics and the MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Australia

    Omar Mubin

  3. t2i Lab, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Mohammad Obaid

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  1. Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748, München, Germany

    Michael Beetz

  2. Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology, Sydney, 2007, Ultimo, NSW, Australia

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Sandoval, E.B., Mubin, O., Obaid, M. (2014). Human Robot Interaction and Fiction: A Contradiction. In: Beetz, M., Johnston, B., Williams, MA. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8755. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11973-1_6

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