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Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues

Edited by Yorick Wilks

What will it be like to admit Artificial Companions into our society? How will they change our relations with each other? How important will they be in the emotional and practical lives of their owners – since we know that people became emotionally dependent even on simple devices like the… read more
[Natural Language Processing, 8] 2010. xxii, 315 pp.
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Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction

Edited by Lola Cañamero and Ruth Aylett

Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups worldwide. Emotional expression, as a key element of human social interaction and communication, is often added in an attempt to make them… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 74] 2008. xxiii, 296 pp.
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