Materialism, a rich philosophical tradition that goes back to antiquity, is currently undergoing
a renaissance. In The Government of Things, Thomas Lemke provides a comprehensive …

Care robots promise to assist older people in an ageing society. This article investigates the
socio-material conditions of care with robots by focusing on the usually invisible practices of …

Prototypes migrate from the workshops to society. They are no longer considered deficient
because of incomplete objects. Rather, it is through the design of the material provisional …

Zusammenfassung Vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Debatten um das Potenzial und die
Risiken von Pflegerobotik in Deutschland arbeitet der Beitrag die spezifischen …

Contemporary discourse on information and communication technology suggests that
humans and machines are increasingly converging. However, in this article, we argue that …

Against the backdrop of an aging world population increasingly affected by a diverse range
of abilities and disabilities as well as the rise of ubiquitous computing and digital app …

We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were
alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into …

For a long-time HCI discourse has viewed ageing and elderly care through a medicalised
lens in which care is broken down into distinct problems, such as activities of daily living and …

Digital systems for analyzing human communication data have become prevalent in recent
years. This may be related to the increasing abundance of data that can be harnessed but …

Der Beitrag bearbeitet die Frage, wieso ausgerechnet Pflege ein Anwendungsbereich ist,
der den Bedingungen und Herausforderungen des Entwickelns von Robotern besonders …