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    Consumer Culture Theory in Asia

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    History and Contemporary Issues

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    Minowa, Yuko (editor)
    Belk, Russell (editor)
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    English
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    Abstract
    Collaborations between entertainment industries and artificial intelligence researchers in Japan have since the mid-1990s produced a growing interest in modeling affect and emotion for use in mass-produced social robots. Robot producers and marketers reason that such robot companions can provide comfort, healing (iyashi), and intimacy in light of attenuating social bonds and increased socioeconomic stress characteristic of Japanese society since the collapse of the country’s bubble economy in the early 1990s. While many of these robots with so-called “artificial emotional intelligence” are equipped with rudimentary capacities to “read” predefined human emotion through such mechanisms as facial expression recognition, a new category of companion robots are more experimental. These robots do not interpret human emotion through affect-sensing software but rather invite human-robot interaction through affectively pleasing forms of haptic feedback. These new robots are called haptic creatures: robot companions designed to deliver a sense of comforting presence through a combination of animated movements and healing touch. Integrating historical analysis with ethnographic interviews with new users of these robots, and focusing in particular on the cat-like cushion robot Qoobo, this chapter argues that while companion robots are designed in part to understand specific human emotions, haptic creatures are created as experimental devices that can generate new and unexpected pleasures of affective care unique to human-robot relationships. It suggests that this distinction is critical for understanding and evaluating how corporations seek to use human-robot affect as a means to deliver care to consumers while also researching and building new markets for profit maximization.
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52062
    Keywords
    Akshaya, Alison, Amy, and, Asia, Autonomy, B, Bangkok, Belk, Buddhist, Century, Chains, Changing, Chieh, Children's, China, China's, Christina, Cold, Commodity, Community, Cong, Consumer, Consumerism, Consumption, Contemporary, Contents, contributors, Credit, Culture, Death, Devi, Dystopia, Early, Education, Elizabeth, Elsewhere, Empowerment, Eric, Fashion, Food, French, from, Gift, giving, Governance, Guojun, Hackley, Hanoi, He, History, Hsein, Hulme, Humiliation, Hung, I, Identity, II, III, illustrations, in, India, Introduction, Investing, is, Issues, IV, Japan, Jenny, Jia, Juliana, Kazuo, Kinship, Lam, Lee, Li, Lin, List, Liu, Lok, Long, Magnum, Making, Male, Man, March, Mattjis, Memorial, Meng, Michelle, Minowa, Modern, Mother's, National, Neoliberalism, of, on, Pheonix, Ping, Practice, Practices, Precarity, Predicting, Privacy, Projects, Provision, Publishing, Ricks, Rinkinen, Rituals, Rohit, Role, Rungpaka, Russell, Sarah, Sawyer, SECTION, Shove, Smits, Social, Solitary, Study, sun, Sustainability, System, Systems, Thai, Thanatopolitics, The, Theory, Theravāda, Usui, Utopia, Varman, Viayalakshmi, Vijay, W, Wing, Work, Xin, Yang, Yuko, Zhao
    DOI
    10.4324/9781003111559
    ISBN
    9780367629496, 9780367629502, 9781003111559
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis
    Publisher website
    https://taylorandfrancis.com/
    Publication date and place
    2022
    Imprint
    Routledge
    Series
    Routledge Frontiers in the Development of International Business, Management and Marketing,
    Classification
    Business and Management
    Pages
    294
    Chapters in this book
    • Chapter 13 Haptic Creatures
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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