• Aarhus University
    Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas
    Associate Professor
Aarhus University
Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas
PhD, 2012
Aarhus, Denmark
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy, Misc
Japanese Philosophy
  •  15
    Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations. The transformational potential that these machines, in the form of, for example, caregiving, entertainment or partner robots, pose to our societies and to us as individuals seems to be limited by our technical limitations and phantasy alone. This collection contributes to the field of social robotics by exploring its boundaries from a philosophically informed standpo…Read more
  • Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics (edited book)
    IOS Press. 2020.
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    Robotification & ethical cleansing
    AI and Society 37 (2): 425-441. 2022.
    Robotics is currently not only a cutting-edge research area, but is potentially disruptive to all domains of our lives—for better and worse. While legislation is struggling to keep pace with the development of these new artifacts, our intellectual limitations and physical laws seem to present the only hard demarcation lines, when it comes to state-of-the-art R&D. To better understand the possible implications, the paper at hand critically investigates underlying processes and structures of robot…Read more
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    Towards a new scale for assessing attitudes towards social robots
    with Malene Flensborg Damholdt, Christina Vestergaard, Raul Hakli, Stefan Larsen, and Johanna Seibt
    Interaction Studies 21 (1): 24-56. 2020.
    Background: The surge in the development of social robots gives rise to an increased need for systematic methods of assessing attitudes towards robots. Aim: This study presents the development of a questionnaire for assessing attitudinal stance towards social robots: the ASOR. Methods: The 37-item ASOR questionnaire was developed by a task-force with members from different disciplines. It was founded on theoretical considerations of how social robots could influence five different aspects of rel…Read more
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    “Embodying” the Internet: Towards the Moral Self via Communication Robots? (review)
    Philosophy and Technology 25 (3): 285-307. 2012.
    Abstract   Internet communication technology has been said to affect our sense of self by altering the way we construct “personal identity,” understood as identificatory valuative narratives about the self; in addition, some authors have warned that internet communication creates special conditions for moral agency that might gradually change our moral intuitions. Both of these effects are attributed to the fact that internet communication is “disembodied.” Our aim in this paper is to establish …Read more
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    What Social Robots Can and Should Do: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016 (edited book)
    with Johanna Seibt and Søren Schack Andersen
    IOS Press. 2016.
  •  72
    Attitudinal Change in Elderly Citizens Toward Social Robots: The Role of Personality Traits and Beliefs About Robot Functionality
    with Malene F. Damholdt, Ryuji Yamazaki, Raul Hakli, Catharina Vesterager Hansen, Christina Vestergaard, and Johanna Seibt
    Frontiers in Psychology 6 1701. 2015.
    Attitudes toward robots influence the tendency to accept or reject robotic devices. Thus it is important to investigate whether and how attitudes toward robots can change. In this pilot study we investigate attitudinal changes in elderly citizens toward a tele-operated robot in relation to three parameters: (i) the information provided about robot functionality, (ii) the number of encounters, (iii) personality type. Fourteen elderly residents at a rehabilitation center participated. Pre-encounte…Read more
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    Towards a new scale for assessing attitudes towards social robots : The attitudes towards social robots scale
    with Malene Flensborg Damholdt, Christina Vestergaard, Raul Hakli, Stefan Larsen, and Johanna Seibt
    Interaction Studies 21 (1): 24-56. 2020.
    Background: The surge in the development of social robots gives rise to an increased need for systematic methods of assessing attitudes towards robots. Aim: This study presents the development of a questionnaire for assessing attitudinal stance towards social robots: the ASOR. Methods: The 37-item ASOR questionnaire was developed by a task-force with members from different disciplines. It was founded on theoretical considerations of how social robots could influence five different aspects of rel…Read more
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    Social Robots and Recognition
    with Sladjana Nørskov
    Philosophy and Technology 33 (1): 5-8. 2020.
  • Envisioning Robots in Society – Power, Politics, and, Public Space. (edited book)
    with Mark Coeckelbergh, Janina Loh, Michael Funk, and Joanna Seibt
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    The question of how we relate to the world via technology is fundamental to the philosophy of technology. One of the leading experts, the contemporary philosopher Don Ihde, has addressed this core issue in many of his works and introduced a fourfold classification of technology-based relationships. The conceptual paper at hand offers a modification of Ihde’s theory, but unlike previous research, it explores the functional compositions of Ihde’s categories instead of complementing them with addit…Read more