Jak uspołecznić robota: Organizacja przestrzenna i multimodalne interakcje semiotyczne w laboratorium robotyki społecznej. (Papiamento)

Social roboticists design their robots to function as social agents in interaction with humans and other robots. Although we do not deny that the robot's design features are crucial for attaining this aim, we point to the relevance of spatial organization and coordination between the robot and the humans who interact with it. We recover these interactions through an observational study of a social robotics laboratory and exam-ine them by applying a multimodal interactional analysis to two moments of robotics practice. We describe the vital role of roboticists and of the group of preverbal infants, who are involved in a robot's design activity, and we argue that the robot's social char-acter is intrinsically related to the subtleties of human interactional moves in laborato-ries of social robotics. This human involvement in the robot's social agency is not simp-ly controlled by individual will. Instead, the human-machine couplings are demanded by the situational dynamics in which the robot is lodged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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