03349cam a2200313 a 4500 15985524 20100818073331.0 091116s2010 ne a b 001 0 eng 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 2 shelf copies policy default ce04 2009-11-16 ce04 2009-11-16 to Dewey rd14 2009-11-17 xe10 2010-06-10 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. xh00 2010-06-17 to USPL/STM rg07 2010-07-16 Z-CipVer (telework) xj04 2010-08-18 Copy 2 to BCCD 2009048316 9789027249944 (hc : alk. paper) 9027249946 (OCoLC)ocn467361095 DLC DLC YDX OHX YDXCP CDX BWX DLC QA76.9.H85 C44115 2010 006.3 22 Close engagements with artificial companions : key social, psychological, ethical and design issues / edited by Yorick Wilks. Amsterdamn ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2010. xxii, 315 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Natural language processing (NLP) ; v. 8 Includes bibliographical references and index. Section I. Setting the scene: In good company? On the threshold of robotic companions / Sherry Turkle -- Introducing artificial Companions / Yorick Wilks -- Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues: Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges / Luciano Floridi -- Conditions for Companionhood / Stephen G. Pulman -- Arius in cyberspace: Digital Companions and the limits of the person / Kieron O'Hara -- Section III. Social and psychological issues: What should a Companion be like?: Conversationalists and confidants / Margaret A. Boden -- Robots should be slaves / Joanna J. Bryson -- Wanting the impossible: The dilemma at the heart of intimate human-robot relationships / Dylan Evans -- Falling in love with a Companion / David Levy -- Identifying your accompanist / Will Lowe -- Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion / Daniela M. Romano -- New Companions / Alex Taylor, Anab Jain and Laurel Swan -- On being a Victorian Companion / Yorick Wilks-- Section IV. Design issues: Building a Companion: The use of affective and attentive cues in an empathic computer-based Companions / Nikolaus Bee...(et al) -- GRETA: Towards an interactive conversational virtual Companion / Elisabetta Bevacqua...(et al) -- Companionship is an emotional business / Roddy Cowie -- Artificial Companions in society: Consulting the users / Alan Newell -- Requirements for Artificial Companions: It's harder than you think / Aaron Sloman -- You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you / Alan FT Winfield -- Section V. Special purpose Companions: A Companion for learning in everyday life / Rebecca Eynon and Chris Davies -- The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion / Sergei Nirenburg -- Living with robots: Ethical tradeoffs in eldercare / Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey -- Section VI. Afterward: Summary and discussion of the issues / Malcom Peltu and Yorick Wilks. Human-computer interaction. Natural language processing (Computer science) Artificial intelligence. Wilks, Yorick, 1939- Natural language processing (Amsterdam, Netherlands) v. 8.