Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.