反对将人机共存视为必然,呼吁回归真实社会需求与技术本质。
Stop Pretending Social Robots Are Inevitable
- 批判将机器人社会视为必然的预设,警惕技术决定论陷阱。
- 指出盲目场景设计削弱了对真实机器人能力的研发投入。
- 建议聚焦人机交互中的认知机制,推动可持续研究方向。
本文批评了RO-MAN和HRI等会议近期将人机共存社会视为不可避免的趋势。这种预设使用户研究可随意构建无生态相关性的场景,过度强调场景设计而忽视实际机器人能力的开发。同时,真正回应社会需求、不预设机器人为解法的研究被边缘化,关键技术进步也受到抑制。单纯假设未来必有机器人社会,不仅助长技术万能主义,反而阻碍实现该愿景所需的研究。因此应摒弃‘必然社交机器人’的叙事,转而关注无论未来如何都能推动领域进步的方向。文章建议从人际交互中‘自我’的认知机制入手,作为新的研究起点。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper takes issue with the recent themes of both the RO-MAN and the HRI conferences for their portrayal of a future human-robot society as inevitable. The focus is on discussing how such statements ultimately shape research. By treating a future human-robot society as a fait accompli, license is given for user studies to imagine any scenario they like, no matter whether it has any ecological relevance, and to emphasise the scenario design over actually creating robot abilities needed to fullfill the imagined role. Meanwhile, research that focusses on actual societal needs, without assuming that robots are a solution, is deprioritised, as is technical development, in particular with respect to abilities that are necessary to enable robots that function as social agents rather than a mere automation of tasks. A frame that simply assumes a robot future not only detracts from scientific advancement in favour of a techno-solutionism we ought to resist, it is also self-defeating as it risks stifling the research needed to bring it about. We should therefore reject attempts to frame and promote the field in terms of the inevitable social robot and instead focus on one that facilitates advances in the field regardless of what the future holds. This paper suggests that a renewed focus on cognitive mechanisms necessary for the "I" in HRI would be a good starting point.
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