| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 165 pages) |
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Emerging technologies, ethics and international affairs |
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Emerging technologies, ethics and international affairs.
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| Contents |
About the Author -- Foreword / by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Kolb, Ph. D. -- Preface -- Glossary of Acronyms -- NARRATIVES -- Learning by experience -- Explosive ordnance disposal stories -- METAPHORS -- Our emotional engines -- Meaningful connections with non-human things -- Robot design as rhetoric -- PATTERNS -- The ecological system of U.S. military EOD work -- Action formation -- Preparing to repair -- Transformational shifts -- Appendix A: Verbatim participant definitions of a "Robot" -- Appendix B: US Navy EOD ethos |
| Summary |
Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) personnel are some of the most highly trained people in the military, with a job description that spans defusing unexploded ordnance to protecting VIP's and state dignitaries. EOD are also one of the first military groups to work with robots every day. These robots have become an increasingly important tool in EOD work, enabling people to work at safer distances in many dangerous situations. Based on exploratory research investigating interactions between EOD personnel and the robots they use, this study richly describes the nuances of these reciprocal influences, especially those related to operator emotion associated with the robots. In particular, this book examines the activities, processes and contexts that influence of constrain everyday EOD human-robot interactions, what human factors are shaping the (robotic) technology and how people and culture are being changed by using it. The findings from this research have implications for future personnel training, and the refinement of robot design considerations for many fields that rely on critical small group communication and decision-making skills--Publisher's description from book |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-160) and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Human-robot interaction.
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Military robots.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
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Armed Forces -- Robots
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Human-robot interaction
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Military robots
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Armed Forces -- Robots.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008002839
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472443120 |
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1472443128 |
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9781315562698 |
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1315562693 |
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