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This edited collection approaches the field of social robotics from
the perspective of a cultural ecology, fostering a deeper
examination of the reach of robotic technology into the lived
experience of diverse human populations, as well as the impact of
human cultures on the development and design of these social
agents. To address the broad topic of Cultural Robotics, the book
is sectioned into three focus areas: Human Futures, Assistive
Technologies, and Creative Platforms and their Communities. The
Human Futures section includes chapters on the histories and future
of social robot morphology design, sensory and sonic interaction
with robots, technology ethics, material explorations of
embodiment, and robotic performed sentience. The Assistive
Technologies section presents chapters from community-led teams,
and researchers working to adopt a strengths-based approach to
designing assistive technologies for those with disability
or neurodivergence. Importantly, this section contains work
written by authors belonging to those communities. Creative
Platforms and their Communities looks to the creative
cross-disciplinary researchers adopting robotics within their art
practices, those contributing creatively to more traditional
robotics research, and the testing of robotics in non-traditional
platforms such as museum and gallery spaces. Cultural Robotics:
Social Robots and their Emergent Cultural Ecologies makes a case
for the development of social robotics to be increasingly informed
by community-led transdisciplinary research, to be decentralised
and democratised, shaped by teams with a diversity of backgrounds,
informed by both experts and non-experts, and tested in both
traditional and non-traditional platforms. In this way, the field
of cultural robotics as an ecological approach to encompassing the
widest possible spectrum of human experience in the development of
social robotics can be advanced. Â Â
- What are professional doctorates? - How do they change
professional knowledge and improve practice? - How can universities
organise doctoral programmes to facilitate professional learning
and development? - What is the most appropriate relationship
between professional and academic knowledge? This book examines the
relationship between advanced study on higher education courses and
professional practice. It explores contributions made by research
on practice to professional development. The editors document and
explain strategies that universities use: - in recruitment - aims
and purposes of the degree - selection of content and focus -
assessment procedures - curricular structures - pedagogy - teaching
strategies - conditions for learning - support for professionals -
relations with interested bodies and stakeholders. The book uses
in-depth case studies of three professional doctorates: the
doctorate in business administration (DBA), the engineering
doctorate (DEng) and the education doctorate (EdD). Examining
Professional Doctorates makes an important contribution to this
neglected area of research. Essential reading for policy makers in
higher education and anyone interested in professional doctoral
study.
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