Towards HRI of Everyday Life

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Towards HRI of Everyday Life is written by Karolina Zawieska and published by Frontiers Media SA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 2832568564 (ISBN 10) and 9782832568569 (ISBN 13).

Presently it is often assumed that, at least in principle, robots and social robots in particular, have the potential to increase human well-being across a wide range of sectors and application areas. At the same time, efforts to introduce such systems into our everyday environments have had only limited success and it is yet to be seen whether the impact of social robots on our daily lives, professional and private, will actually be beneficial. Therefore, there is a need to systematically address and study the long-term use and presence of social robots in everyday environments, where humans not only interact with robots, but also have them integrated into the totality of their lived experiences in everyday life. One of the main ways to investigate human engagement with social robots in everyday environments is through HRI studies conducted "in-the-wild". While such an approach has certainly been instrumental to, and is increasingly used in HRI research, we propose here to further expand the underlying theoretical and methodological frameworks to address the notion of 'everyday life'. The latter is viewed here as a useful concept and an umbrella term that allows us to address, not only specific application domains for robots, but also the continuity and totality of human lived experiences that emerge through long-term engagement with social robots in everyday life contexts. Placing social robots in everyday settings has often been an explicit goal for robot development; however, the notion of 'everyday life' has yet to be systematically analysed and addressed in this context. Therefore, this Research Topic aims to bring together a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions to further develop the HRI domain.