The Making of Robot Care
Abstract
The health industry is investing in robotics because it has the potential to optimize workflows and reduce the workloads of healthcare professionals. However, these optimizations come at a cost. By looking at three different robot systems and their underlying control architectures, this paper will describe some of the dynamics generated by the migration of computational logic developed for industrial robot systems to the healthcare domain. We combine a reading of robot control systems with perspectives from cultural techniques to uncover dynamics that neither approach can detect independently.
Keywords
robot control, robot architecture, healthcare, cultural techniques
Author Biography
Marc Böhlen
Marc Böhlen aka RealTechSupport offers the kind of support technology really needs. Böhlen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Media Study Buffalo.
Tero Karppi
Tero Karppi is Associate Professor of Critical Computation and Digital Media at ICCIT. For a decade, Karppi has been working on the nascent field of disconnection studies focusing on how social media platforms engage their users and keep them captivated despite emerging desires to quit. He examines the role of social media in our daily lives and investigates how the power of these platforms is designed, established, and enacted.