Theory of Robot Communication: I. The Medium is the Communication Partner
Abstract
When people use electronic media for their communication, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) theories describe the social and communicative aspects of people's interpersonal transactions. When people interact via a remote-controlled robot, many of the CMC theses hold. Yet, what if people communicate with a conversation robot that is (partly) autonomous? Do the same theories apply? This paper discusses CMC theories in confrontation with observations and research data gained from human-robot communication. As a result, I argue for an addition to CMC theorizing when the robot as a medium itself becomes the communication partner. In view of the rise of social robots in coming years, I define the theoretical precepts of a possible next step in CMC, which I elaborate in a second paper.
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@article{arxiv.1812.04408,
title = {Theory of Robot Communication: I. The Medium is the Communication Partner},
author = {Johan F. Hoorn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04408},
year = {2023}
}
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Published as Hoorn, J. F. (2020a). Theory of robot communication: I. The medium is the communication partner. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 17(6), 2050026. doi: 10.1142/S0219843620500267