Soon, robots will leave the factories and make their way into living rooms, supermarkets, and care facilities. They will cooperate with humans in everyday life, taking on more than just practical tasks. How should they communicate with us? Do they need eyes, a screen, or arms? Should they resemble humans? Or may they enrich social situations precisely because they act so differently from humans? Meaningful Futures with Robots: Designing a New Coexistence provides insight into the opportunities and risks that arise from living with robots in the future, anchored in current research projects on everyday robotics. As well as generating ideas for robot developers and designers, it also critically discusses existing theories and methods for social robotics from different perspectives - ethical, design, artistical and technological - and presents new approaches to meaningful human-robot interaction design. Key Features: Provides insights into current research on robots from different disciplinary angles with a particular focus on a value-driven design. Includes contributions from designers, psychologists, engineers, philosophers, artists, and legal scholars, among others. Licence line: Chapters 1, 3, 12, and 15 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.crcpress.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- About the Author -- Contents -- Introduction -- Towards Designing Meaningful Relationships with Robots -- Concept and Content of the Book -- Part 1: Designing a New Species-Interaction Design and Product Design of Robots -- How to Design Robots with Superpowers -- Social Robots Should Mediate, Not Replace, Social Interactions -- Neither Human nor Computer-A Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaboration in Autism Therapy -- Counting Characters and Spaces-On Robot Disabilities, Robot Care, and Technological Dependencies -- Designing Robots with Personality -- Designing Robots as Social Counterparts-A Discussion about a Technology Claiming its Own Needs -- Falling in Love with a Machine-What Happens if the Only Affection a Person Gets is from Machines? -- I am Listening to You!-How to Make Different Robotic Species Speak the Same Language -- How to Really Get in Touch with Robots-Haptic Interaction Technologies for VR and Teleoperation -- Part 2: Designing Future Environments-Social Innovation Initiated by Robots -- Design Fiction-The Future of Robots Needs Imagination -- Cramer's Funeral Service for Androids -- Googly Eyes -- Empathizing with Robots-Animistic and Performative Methods to Anticipate a Robot's Impact -- From the Lab to a Real-World Supermarket-Anticipating the Chances and Challenges of a Shopping Robot -- Dominant, Persuasive or Polite?-Human Curiosity, Provocative Users and Solving Conflicts between Humans and Robots -- Seven Observations, or Why Domestic Robots are Struggling to Enter the Habitats of Everyday Life -- Is this a Patient or a Wall?-Adapting Robots from an Industrial Context to a Rehabilitation Clinic -- Robotics x Book Studies-Imagining a Robotic Archive of Embodied Knowledge -- "That's the Future, I'm Telling you." -- A Visual Commentary on Robots.

Part 3: Designing Together with People-Civic Participation and Ethical Implications Concerning Robots -- Citizen Participation in Social Robotics Research -- Learning from Each Other-How Roboticists Learn from Users and How Users Teach Their Robots -- My Friend Simsala, the Robot -- Move Away from the Stereotypical User in the Picture-Perfect Scenario-A Plea for Early and Broad User Integration -- Is it Good?-A Philosophical Approach towards Ethics-Centered Design -- Are Robots Good at Everything? A Robot in an Elementary School -- The Medium has a Message-Educational Robots in a Didactic Triangle -- The Friendly Siblings of Workhorses and Killer Robots-Becoming Alive through the Nonliving, and Feeling Blessed by a Religious Machine -- Appendix -- Designing with Algorithms-Reflections Based on the Book's Design -- Biographies -- Index.

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