3. On Design
โข Design isโฆโA plan for arranging elements to
accomplish a particular purpose.โ -Charles
Eames
4. From Laboratories to Homes
โข Domestication
- Traditional: Taming a wild animal & House-trained
- General: Integrated into the structures, daily
routines and values of users and their environments
โข Coming of robots as consumable product
โข Complex human issues: Desires and idiosyncrasies of
the intended audience audience and the ๏ฌuctuations
of fashion and trends
5. Utility and Post Utility
โข Utility object: Form and function de๏ฌned by the
satisfying of tangible and relatively stable human
needs
โข Post utility object: Governed by a much more
complex and extremely ephemeral set of criteria.
โข Understanding of US , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ!
- Embrace the genuine complexity and transience
of human needs and desires
6.
7. Maladaptation
โข Why robots are not becoming products?
- Functional adaptation
โด Utilitarian vs. Aesthetic, Where is niche for robots?
โด For labour-saving, too costly
- Form adaptation
โด Familiarity vs. Fictional
- Interactive adaptation
โด Most are operated in highly arti๏ฌcial environment
โด Real human interaction is different
9. Living with Robots
โข What would robots do in the home?
โข How could we and our homes adapt to a robotโs
needs?
โข How could robots adapt to the home?
โข How can we begin to understand the ethical
implications of bringing robots into the home?
10. Do What?
โข Neo-naturalists by Neil Usher
- Robots looking for faces in the clouds and
four-leaved clover in the ๏ฌelds
- Different application: Pointless, but emotional
- Beyond military and lab usage
11.
12. Homes Adapt to Robots
โข With Robots by Diego Trujillo
- Home sympathetic to the limitation of robots
- Why design a complex robot, when you can
redesign the cup?
- Objects are designed for robots, while serving
the function for human usage
13.
14. Robots Adapt to Homes
โข Dunne and Raby: Technological Dream Series:
No. 1, Robots
- Donโt look like conventional robots, rather
function oriented and domestic
- Not omnipresent and overtly smart
โด subservient, intimate, dependent, and equal
15. Robots Adapt to Homes
โข James Chambers: Attenborough Design Group
- Updating familiar objects to have kinetic
behaviour
- Response to the environment (Survival)
- Emotional relationship with owner
16. Robots Adapt to Homes
โข Natalie Jeremijenko: Feral
Robotic Dogs
- Twig the program and
sensor to me the robotic
dogs NOT predictable
- Seek out potential
danger in environment
- Give value far beyond
original devices
17. Ethical Implications
โข Carnivorous Domestic
Entertainment Robots,
Auger-Loizeau
- Feed off living
organisms (insects)
for electrical energy
(clock)
- Arti๏ฌcial companions
- Ethical issues
