On ‘Spillikin – A Love Story’: Issues around the Humanoid Robot as a Social Actor on Stage
On ‘Spillikin – A Love Story’: Issues around the Humanoid Robot as a Social Actor on Stage
Author(s): Eugenia StambolievSubject(s): Social Sciences, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych
Keywords: digital media; ethics in science and technology; gestures; humanoid and social robots; performance studies; social interaction; tracking technology
Summary/Abstract: The inclusion of media technology in theatrical plays (Saltz, 2013) follows a contingent fascination and entanglement between human actors, technology and automata (Reilly, 2011) on stage. The contemporary play Spillikin – A Love Story places a new digital ‘actor’ in this debate: the humanoid robot as a socially interactive agent (Breazeal, 2002; Fong, Nourbakhsh, & Dautenhahn, 2003) and caring companion. This paper discusses the exhibition of sociability through the robot’s humanlike gestures and its ability to decipher human gestures on stage. The aim is to point to the ethical consequences for the audience concerning the robot’s implied autonomy to interact socially.
Journal: AVANT. Pismo Awangardy Filozoficzno-Naukowej
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: S
- Page Range: 265-271
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
