Design Strategies for Representing the Divine in Robots

Gabriele Trovato; Cesar Lucho; Alexander Huerta-Mercado; Francisco Cuellar

doi:10.1145/3173386.3173388

Design Strategies for Representing the Divine in Robots

Gabriele Trovato, Cesar Lucho, Alexander Huerta-Mercado, Francisco Cuellar

Waseda University

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Abstract

Robot appearance morphology can be divided in anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and functional. In previous recent work, a new catego-ry was introduced, called "theomorphic robots", in which robots carry the shape and the identity of a supernatural creature or object within a religion. This approach can bring some advantages for certain categories of users such as children and elders. This paper is an exploratory discussion over practical design strategies for repre-senting the divine in robots, based on theoretical insights on the historical intertwinements between sacred art and robotics. The illustrated concepts will be followed in the realisation of the proto-types of the first theomorphic robots.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI 2018 - Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	29-35
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356152
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173386.3173388
State	Published - 1 Mar 2018
Event	13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2018 - Chicago, United States Duration: 5 Mar 2018 → 8 Mar 2018

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Name	ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
ISSN (Electronic)	2167-2148

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Conference	13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	5/03/18 → 8/03/18

Keywords

culture
human-robot interaction
religion
robot design

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Trovato, G, Lucho, C, Huerta-Mercado, A & Cuellar, F 2018, Design Strategies for Representing the Divine in Robots. in HRI 2018 - Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 29-35, 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2018, Chicago, United States, 5/03/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173386.3173388

Design Strategies for Representing the Divine in Robots. / Trovato, Gabriele; Lucho, Cesar; Huerta-Mercado, Alexander et al.
HRI 2018 - Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE Computer Society, 2018. p. 29-35 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction).

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