Social Robotics and the Nature of Trust: A philosophical investigation into the conceptual challenge of trust ascription in human-robot interaction

摘要

Social robotics is an interdisciplinary field of research that aims to bring robots into everyday life and society more broadly. Inspired by cutting-edge models of human cognition and social compe tence, these robots are designed to have built-in capacities to understand and display cues for social interaction and communication. Robots that are increasingly socially capable and anthropo morphic by design (in both appearance and behavior) make people perceive them as having agency. Envisioned in the role of assistants, tutors, coworkers, and companions, these robots are already being tested and utilised in various social settings (e.g., eldercare centres, schools, shopping malls, museums, households, airports, and hospitals).