Designing Robots, Designing Humans vs Turned On: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Human-robot interaction, Social aspects, Robots
Designing Robots, Designing Humans
Whilst most research concentrates on the imagined future of robotics, this book brings together a group of international researchers to explore the different ways that robots and humans engage with one another at this…
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Turned On
"'Illuminating, witty and written with a wide open mind' Sunday Times The idea of the seductive sex robot is the stuff of myth, legend and science fiction. From the myth of Laodamia in Ancient Greece to twenty-first…
The verdict
- Designing Robots, Designing Humans is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for Turned On.
- Turned On reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 101 times.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Designing Robots, Designing Humans | Turned On | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.6 (409) |
Reception
| Designing Robots, Designing Humans | Turned On | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | — | 409 |
| Editions | 6 | 5 |
| Citations | 11 | 101 |
| Want to read | — | 1977 |
| Reading it now | — | 73 |
| Written reviews | — | 63 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 542 |
| Pages | 148 | 288 |