How That Robot Made Me Feel

An edited collection that explores what emotions we have when encountering robots, how we react emotionally to them in different contexts, and why these emotional responses are so important. Do robots, or the AI that is driving them, have emotions? That is a hotly debated topic-- both in science fiction, where such assertions are a staple of the narrative, and in tech development, where it often makes headlines. But what about how we humans emotionally respond to robots? Are our emotional responses any less important when it comes to how the robots we encounter today are designed? In The narrative arch of this anthology follows the question of just whose emotions are being engaged through robotic interactions, why, and for what design ends. Of course, the answer is that it is

List of contents

Contents
Introduction
1. Emotion AI, the Perils of “Speaking for,” and Empathy as Imposition
Jennifer Rhee
2. The Role of Intentionality in Human-Robot Interaction
Tom Ziemke
3. The Way Things Feel: Working with a Non-Humanlike AI Colleague in the Control Room
Ahmet Börütecene
4. Robots Playing with Emotions: Commodifying Human Emotions
Roger Søraa and Mark Kharas
5. Robot Animals and the Emotional Labor of Caregivers
Marcus Persson, Clara Iversen, and David Redmalm
6. Robot Meets Pets
Ericka Johnson
7. The Imperfectly Relatable Robot
Katherine Harrison, Kavyaa Somasundaram, and Amy Loutfi
8. The Difference Between You and Me(chanical) Robot
Karin Danielsson
9. Western and Buddhist Psychological Models of Emotion for Human-Robot Flourishing
Daniel White and Hirofumi Katsuno
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors

Product details

• Authors: Ericka Johnson, Johnson Ericka
• Assisted by: Johnson Ericka (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.07.2025
• EAN: 9780262550949
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55094-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Sociology, Robotics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics, Social, group or collective psychology