6 books like Human-Robot Interaction

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Social Robotics Arvin Agah · 2010 · 1037p · ≈ 34h · Moderate This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016, held in Kansas City, MO, USA, in November 2016. The 98 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions.The theme of the 2016 conference is Sociorobotics: Design and implementation of social behaviors of robots interacting with each other… Shares: Human-computer interaction, Robots

Rogue Protocol Martha Wells · 2018 · ★ 4.2 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayChris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good." Shares: Human-computer interaction, Robots

Exit Strategy Martha Wells · 2018 · ★ 4.4 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous… Shares: Human-computer interaction, Robots

All Systems Red Martha Wells · 2017 · ★ 4.1 · 163p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus enabling it to develop independence. It calls itself Murderbot, and likes to watch unrealistic soap operas. As it spends more time with some caring humans, it starts developing feelings that it does not care for. Shares: Human-computer interaction, Robots

Artificial Condition Martha Wells · 2018 · ★ 4.2 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Moderate It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers… Shares: Human-computer interaction, Robots

Mediating the human body Leopoldina Fortunati · 2003 · 241p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "In Mediating the Human Body, Technology, Communication, and Fashion, editors Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, and Raimonda Riccini bring together a thoughtful group of international scholars and analysts to explore the effects of new technologies on human beings. They focus selectively on the intersection of new communication technologies and the body and offer novel insights based on recent… Shares: Human-computer interaction, Robots

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