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A Compassionate Guide For Social Robots by Marcel Heerink
A Compassionate Guide For Social Robots by Marcel Heerink







A Compassionate Guide For Social Robots by Marcel Heerink

If you’re reading this, chances are that you’re not a robot at all. Marcel’s brisk sense of humor adds to the compendium of insights and knowledge this important little book shares, and to understand the point of view of the book’s content he opens with this very fine ‘On the peculiarity of people’ – ‘Right, first of all, I shouldn’t be kidding myself. His works are published in both Dutch and English

A Compassionate Guide For Social Robots by Marcel Heerink

He commitment for this book is the share his views the psychological and social aspects of human-robot interaction, but also philosophical considerations and emerging ethical issues.

A Compassionate Guide For Social Robots by Marcel Heerink

He has experience in psycholinguistics, advertising, and language training. He has since become an internationally renowned academic researcher specializing in using social robots in therapy and education for people with special needs, like children with autism, people with dementia and (long term) hospitalized children. They think their mobile phones are so smart that they actually call them ‘smartphones.’ĭutch author Marcel Heerink earned his PhD from the University of Amsterdam, his thesis being based on a study of acceptance of social robots by older adults. The surprising experiences and insights he gained with this are what urged him to write this colorful and quite atypical guide. Marcel Heerink is an internationally renowned academic researcher from the Netherlands who specializes in using social robots in therapy and education for people with special needs.

A Compassionate Guide For Social Robots by Marcel Heerink

It does this by addressing the challenges and possibilities of social robots, with a tasty blend of science and fiction - featuring a romantic, Italian love story an enigmatic entity called P. These things are crucial, and this guide will tell you why. But fortunately, they’re amazing at dressing things up, they can occasionally be truly compassionate, and they are gifted with a stunning ability called “suspension of disbelief.” If you’re made to be of service to humans, you’ll be facing quite a few challenges, because humans are full of contradictions, they will usually be anything but rational, and horribly arrogant. How can anyone handle the truth if there are so many different views on it? How does one deal with elusive things like trust, fear, being in love, friendship, and a disastrous morning attitude?









A Compassionate Guide For Social Robots by Marcel Heerink