What is unique in the dissertation is that it examines long-term robot owners and their perceptions of their robots in real world. For years, Csaba Kertész was part of an internet community and built artificial intelligence together with members of an online forum.
The results of this community project and a critical analysis of the recent failures in social robotics products were crystalized in design recommendations for future social robotics projects.
“This is an important research direction because mankind faces a demographic crisis of the increasing elderly population and the desolation of the countryside worldwide. Social robots can help to deal with these challenges by providing companions for the increasing number of old and lonely people in the coming decades,” Csaba Kertész says.
The doctoral dissertation of MSc Csaba Kertész in the field of Interactive Technology titled Collaborative Artificial Intelligence Development for Social Robots will be publicly examined in the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University (Auditorium Virta 109, Åkerlundinkatu 5) on Friday 27 May at 12:00. The opponent will be associate professor Mohammad Obaid from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and the custos will be Professor Markku Turunen from Tampere University.
The dissertation is available online at the permanent web address of https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/140088.
You can follow the dissertation defence via remote connection (Panopto).