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Moving Android

On Social Robots and Body-in-Interaction

Morana Ala

University of California San Diego, Department of Communication, 9500 Gilman Drive 0503, La Jolla, CA 92093-0503, USA, alac{at}ucsd.edu

Social robotics studies embodied technologies designed for social interaction. This paper examines the implied idea of embodiment using as data a sequence in which practitioners of social robotics are involved in designing a robot's movement. The moments of learning and work in the laboratory enact the social body as material, dynamic, and multiparty: the body-in-interaction. In describing subject—object reconfigurations, the paper explores how the well-known ideas of extending the body with instruments can be applied to a technology designed to function as our surrogate.

Key Words: embodiment • gesture • human—technology extension • laboratory studies • multimodal semiotic interaction • social robotics

Social Studies of Science, Vol. 39, No. 4, 491-528 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0306312709103476


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