Comments on: Robots and Cyborgs and Droids Oh My! http://guidoworld.com/blog/robots-and-cyborgs-and-droids-oh-my/ A safe place to think and feel. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:19:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Guido http://guidoworld.com/blog/robots-and-cyborgs-and-droids-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-9163 Guido Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:28:23 +0000 http://guidoworld.com/?p=1302#comment-9163 Using a robot as a co-therapist is always a possibility thus accentuating the benefits while removing the drawbacks. Yet, let's not minimize the upside of a latter generation robot therapist. Just to name a few potential benefits. A robot therapist would: 1) have immediate and total recall of all previous sessions and communications 2) be able to tend to any disparities between present session and previous statements 3) never space out, project, or react from personal issues 4) keep healthy boundaries Using a robot as a co-therapist is always a possibility thus accentuating the benefits while removing the drawbacks.
Yet, let’s not minimize the upside of a latter generation robot therapist. Just to name a few potential benefits.
A robot therapist would:
1) have immediate and total recall of all previous sessions and communications
2) be able to tend to any disparities between present session and previous statements
3) never space out, project, or react from personal issues
4) keep healthy boundaries

]]> By: ModernSophist http://guidoworld.com/blog/robots-and-cyborgs-and-droids-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-9122 ModernSophist Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:46:23 +0000 http://guidoworld.com/?p=1302#comment-9122 Not sure how I feel about Robot's as therapists. It's not that I disagree that software could be developed for biomechanics, etc, to be read and interpreted, but I see this potential only as a tool that a human therapist could employ. A machine might be good at saying, "you're lying" but it takes real human connection for the person to own up to themselves. Then again, in my imagination I like to think of such technology being used in bathroom mirrors. It could respond to you when you look at yourself (since bathroom glances are so very honest). Then it's a kind of mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most guarded/in-denial/anxious of them all. Not sure how I feel about Robot’s as therapists. It’s not that I disagree that software could be developed for biomechanics, etc, to be read and interpreted, but I see this potential only as a tool that a human therapist could employ.

A machine might be good at saying, “you’re lying” but it takes real human connection for the person to own up to themselves.

Then again, in my imagination I like to think of such technology being used in bathroom mirrors. It could respond to you when you look at yourself (since bathroom glances are so very honest). Then it’s a kind of mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most guarded/in-denial/anxious of them all.

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