CAN MY ROBOT TRULY BE MY FRIEND?

My “friend on Facebook” and my “Facebook friend”

Donath et al. (2004) discuss social networking display as a whole, and its characteristic functions, affordances and constraints when existing in online environment. Focusing on the connections displayed as an integrated part of individual’s self-descriptive profiles, the authors analyze the psychology of establishing and managing one’s social networks within the framework of signaling theory. ...

My friend Bert.

It had been a busy morning in the hospital with surgeries, rounds, and outpatient department visits. I enjoyed the few minutes of solitude as I drove to the nursing home to see my friend Bert. He sat, slouched over, in a geriatric chair and ever so slowly sat up when I spoke to him. His expressionless face could no longer welcome me, yet his trembling hands reached out to grasp mine. I sat clos...

My Friend the Customer

The Customer is the only non-developer role in eXtreme Programming (XP). The Customer’s explicit responsibilities are to drive the project, providing project requirements (user stories) and quality control (acceptance testing). Unfortunately the customer must also shoulder a number of implicit responsibilities including liaison with external project stakeholders, especially project funders, cli...

Memories to Stanisław Kielich: My teacher, my mentor and my friend

A consistent scheme is proposed for quantizing the potential amplitude in the Schrödinger equation in the caseof negative energies (lying in the discrete-spectrum domain). The properties of the eigenfunctionsφν(r) and eigenvalues ανcorresponding to zero, small, and large absolute values of energy E < 0 are analyzed. Expansion in the set {φν(r)} is used todevelop a regular pertur...

Robot Friendship: Can a Robot be a Friend?