2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Empowerment loop: a value-based model of the interactive unity of human and technology
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18K00035
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| Research Institution | Kanazawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
Grueneberg P. 金沢大学, GS教育系, 准教授 (00757718)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | human-robot interaction / social robotics / empowerment / care |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Phase A "Stakeholder analysis"
- Presentations/events: 1 panel at international conference STS Graz 2019 on "Humans & machines in healthcare contexts: interdisciplinary perspectives"; 1 online workshop "Norms and values of the usage of empowerment technologies"
- Publications: 1 paper accepted on "Empowering patients in the interactive unity with machines. A study on engineers and engineering of the robotic rehabilitation system HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb)" in: Brucksch & Sasaki (eds.): Humans & Machines in Medical Contexts - Case Studies from Japan. Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming); submitted 1 manuscript to international conference Robophilosophy 2020 on "Culturally sustainable social robotics as empowerment technology"; submitted 1 manuscript to a special issue of the International Journal of Social Robotics on "Reconsidering agency in the interactive unity of human and machine"
- Fieldwork: 12 qualitative semi-structured interviews with social stakeholders of medical care (nurses, physicians), rehabilitation, childcare, care for the elderly and disabled about their values and norms regarding the actual, future, or potential usage or non-usage of empowerment technologies; transcription and analysis
- Conceptual work: Definition of empowerment technologies, case studies, cognitive model of empowerment loop ("interactive unity of human and machine"), design principle of interactive unity (asymmetric reciprocity of human and machine)
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Phase A: analysis of stakeholder interviews; building value-driven model of empowerment technologies
Phase B: building design principles for interactive unity of human and machine (functional model of empowerment technologies)
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Phase A: April~September: stakeholder analysis for value-based model of interactive unity of human and machine
Phase B: June~December: designing functional model of empowerment technologies; November~December: assessing norms and values of R&D; January~March: redifining model of interactive unity
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Research Products
(4 results)
