Substituting Animals with Biohybrid Robots: Speculative Interactions with Animal-Robot Hybrids
Paper in proceeding, 2023
What if animals were substituted with biohybrid robots? The replacement of pets with bioinspired robots has long existed within technological imaginaries and HRI research. Addressing developments of bioengineering and biohybrid robots, we depart from such replacement to study futures inhabited by animal-robot hybrids. In this paper, we introduce a speculative concept of assembling and eating biohybrid robots. With this provocation as a starting point, we intend to initiate cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural discussions around human-food interaction practices and related topics.
Author
Ziming Wang
University of Luxembourg
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering
Ned Barker
University College London (UCL)
Yiqian Wu
Chalmers
Morten Fjeld
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering
University of Bergen
DIS '23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
173-178
978-1-4503-9898-5 (ISBN)
DIS '23: Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Pittsburgh, USA,
Pittsburgh, USA,
The Rise of Social Drones: A Constructive Research Agenda
Marianne och Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (M&MWallenbergsStiftelse), 2020-01-01 -- 2023-12-31.
Areas of Advance
Information and Communication Technology
Driving Forces
Sustainable development
Subject Categories
Robotics
Computer Science
DOI
10.1145/3563703.3596641