Section I. Setting the scene: In good company? On the threshold of robotic companions / Sherry Turkle
Introducing artificial Companions / Yorick Wilks
Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues: Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges / Luciano Floridi
Conditions for Companionhood / Stephen G. Pulman
Arius in cyberspace: Digital Companions and the limits of the person / Kieron O'Hara
Section III. Social and psychological issues: What should a Companion be like?: Conversationalists and confidants / Margaret A. Boden
Robots should be slaves / Joanna J. Bryson
Wanting the impossible: The dilemma at the heart of intimate human-robot relationships / Dylan Evans
Falling in love with a Companion / David Levy
Identifying your accompanist / Will Lowe
Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion / Daniela M. Romano
New Companions / Alex Taylor, Anab Jain and Laurel Swan
On being a Victorian Companion / Yorick Wilks
Section IV. Design issues: Building a Companion: The use of affective and attentive cues in an empathic computer-based Companions / Nikolaus Bee ...(et al)
GRETA: Towards an interactive conversational virtual Companion / Elisabetta Bevacqua ...(et al)
Companionship is an emotional business / Roddy Cowie
Artificial Companions in society: Consulting the users / Alan Newell
Requirements for Artificial Companions: It's harder than you think / Aaron Sloman
You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you / Alan FT Winfield
Section V. Special purpose Companions: A Companion for learning in everyday life / Rebecca Eynon and Chris Davies
The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion / Sergei Nirenburg
Living with robots: Ethical tradeoffs in eldercare / Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey
Section VI. Afterward: Summary and discussion of the issues / Malcom Peltu and Yorick Wilks.
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Close engagements with artificial companions : key social, psychological, ethical and design issues. ISBN 9789027249944. Published by John Benjamins Pub. Company in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
