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Journal article
Born or Built? Exploring visitor understandings of robotics
Journal of Science Communication, Vol.21(1), pp.1-19
2022
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Abstract
The Born or Built? — Our Robotic Future (BOB?) exhibition examines relationships between humans, robots and artificial intelligence. It encourages visitors to explore ethical and social issues surrounding these new technologies and invites visitors to post their own questions. We examine visitor responses to the exhibit “Q&A of the Day”, which encourages visitors to engage by writing down their own question prompted by their experience in BOB?. As responses were submitted, it became apparent that the questions posed by visitors were potentially a valuable contribution to future science communication policy about robotics, and to those designing and implementing these technologies. We performed a content analysis that distilled themes in visitors’ open-ended questioning that conveyed visitor knowledge and insight into what science communication about robotic technologies needs to address. Taken this way, visitors’ questions form a moment of dialogue between the public and science communicators, engineers and researchers in which visitors contribute their knowledge and ideas about robotics. Such moments of dialogue are potentially valuable if the public is to be included in the development of robotics technology to build trust in robotics technology
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- Title
- Born or Built? Exploring visitor understandings of robotics
- Creators
- Gizem Bilgin - Australian National UniversityErika Kerruish - Southern Cross UniversityRod Kennett - Questacon - The National Science and Technology CentreRob DeSalle - American Museum of Natural HistoryAnita Beck - Questacon - The National Science and Technology CentreAlex Jordon - Questacon - The National Science and Technology CentreDoug Newton-Walters - National Film and Sound Archive of AustraliaMatt Cracknell - Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre
- Publication Details
- Journal of Science Communication, Vol.21(1), pp.1-19
- Publisher
- Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
- Identifiers
- 991013000398502368
- Copyright
- The Author(s). This article is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution — NonCommercial — NoDerivativeWorks 4.0 License.
- Academic Unit
- Humanities; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article