Abstract
Although they work with two non-humanoid robots located several million miles away, the distributed team that operates the Mars Exploration Rovers demonstrates an uncanny sympathy for their robotic teammates. This paper examines not only how the Rovers are anthropomorphized by the human team, but also how the team takes on characteristics of the Rovers while conducting science and operations on Mars. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with the Mars Rover mission, the paper places the configuration of the user in social context and probes the role of the machine as social resource, with implications for HCI.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 2523-2532 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Florence, Italy Duration: Apr 5 2008 → Apr 10 2008 |
Other
| Other | 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
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| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Florence |
| Period | 4/5/08 → 4/10/08 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Keywords
- Affect
- Anthropomorphism
- Embodied computing
- Human-robot interaction
- Social robotics
- Usability