On the Pertinence of Social Practices for Social Robotics

Aurélie Clodic (1, 2) , Javier Vázquez-Salceda (3) , Frank Dignum (4) , Samuel Mascarenhas (5) , Virginia Dignum (6) , Agnese Augello (7) , Manuel Gentile (8) , Rachid Alami (1)

1 LAAS-RIS - Équipe Robotique et InteractionS
2 LAAS-IDEA - Service Informatique : Développement, Exploitation et Assistance
3 Center for Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona TECH, Barcelona, Spain
4 Department of Information and Computing Sciences [Utrecht]
5 INESC-ID - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa
6 TU Delft - Delft University of Technology
7 Institute for high performance computing and networking (ICAR), CNR, Italy
8 ITD - Institute for Educational Technology = The Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche

In the area of consumer robots that need to have rich social interactions with humans, one of the challenges is the complexity of computing the appropriate interactions in a cognitive, social and physical context. We propose a novel approach for social robots based on the concept of Social Practices. By using social practices robots are able to be aware of their own social identities (given by the role in the social practice) and the identities of others and also be able to identify the different social contexts and the appropriate social interactions that go along with those contexts and identities.

Mots clés: Social practices; social interaction; social robotics; human-robot interaction

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Aurélie Clodic, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Frank Dignum, Samuel Mascarenhas, Virginia Dignum, et al.. On the Pertinence of Social Practices for Social Robotics. IOS Press. Envisioning Robots in Society – Power, Politics, and Public Space, , pp.36-74, 2018, 978-1-61499-931-7. ⟨10.3233/978-1-61499-931-7-63⟩. ⟨hal-01943774⟩