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Roboticists are faced with a striking discrepancy between vision and demonstration of care with robots. On the one hand, research funders, policy makers, and entrepreneurs expect robots to become a panacea to impending demographic change. On the other hand, efforts to demonstrate that vision in care practice have largely remained unfulfilled. In this article, I investigate how roboticists manage and deal with this discrepancy between high expectations toward robotics research and what robots are capable of doing in practice. I will offer an extensive analysis of the efforts by roboticists and others to install, repair, stage, and, surprisingly, suspend robot dramas. Robot dramas comprise an ambivalent mix of experimental practices that seek to stage visions of care robotics while at the same time testing precarious phenomena of human–robot interaction. This relates two prominent but still largely disconnected strands of research in Science and Technology Studies: works on techno-scientific demonstrations, and on high and low expectations. Here, robot dramas are a crucial site for studying the conflicting interrelation between the theatrical performativity of demonstrations and the interplay of high and low expectations.

Users play an increasingly important role in European innovation policy. They are commonly seen as drivers of and active co-creators within innovation processes. However, user-driven innovation remains infused with a number of assumptions about users, technology, and "successful" innovation, which (partly) undermine a more democratic, open approach to innovation. In this contribution, I investigate the interplay between broader policy assumptions in the European discourse on user-driven innovation and its practical performance within an innovation project centring on healthcare robotics. Here, I argue that the politics of user-driven innovation harbours particular assumptions that, in effect, restrict the agency of users while also engendering conflict and contradictory outcomes. Hence, user-driven innovation is not simply about users driving innovation but rather about interfacing users and their concerns with (robotics) developers and their technology. For this, I propose an analytics of interfacing, which draws together literatures on the performative dynamics of participatory processes and more recent work on the political economy of participation. Here, I contend that it is not enough to investigate the construction and performance of publics; rather, it is additionally necessary to follow the manifold practices by which those publics are rendered available for certain technological solutions - and vice versa. Such an analytical approach opens up a fruitful avenue to critically enquire into the politics of participation - sitting in between innovation policy and practice.

In Science & Technology Studies and Media Studies, materiality has been predominantly conceptualized as a stabilizing factor in processes of social ordering. Here, Karen Barad's agential realism offers a different notion of materiality emphasizing the open, eventful, and potentially destabilizing effects of matter. With regard to this theoretical tension the present article argues that especially the case of social robotics in elderly care renders visible the fragility of technological interconnecting, thus requiring a new conceptualization of materiality within thoroughly technologized society. In order to achieve this, the article proposes an 'analytics of interfacing' accounting for the eventful material conditions of technological interconnecting. By synthesizing Barad's account of 'intraaction' and Gilbert Simondon's notion of 'disposability' such an analytics focuses on the procedural modalities by which techno-scientific regimes render hetergeneous entities disposable for one another, thus interfacing them. This is demonstrated by the case of prototypical user experiments of roboticized care within the context of European innovation politics.

In Science & Technology Studies and Media Studies, materiality has been predominantly conceptualized as a stabilizing factor in processes of social ordering. Here, Karen Barad's agential realism offers a different notion of materiality emphasizing the open, eventful, and potentially destabilizing effects of matter. With regard to this theoretical tension the present article argues that especially the case of social robotics in elderly care renders visible the fragility of technological interconnecting, thus requiring a new conceptualization of materiality within thoroughly technologized society. In order to achieve this, the article proposes an 'analytics of interfacing' accounting for the eventful material conditions of technological interconnecting. By synthesizing Barad's account of 'intraaction' and Gilbert Simondon's notion of 'disposability' such an analytics focuses on the procedural modalities by which techno-scientific regimes render hetergeneous entities disposable for one another, thus interfacing them. This is demonstrated by the case of prototypical user experiments of roboticized care within the context of European innovation politics. ; In Science & Technology Studies and Media Studies, materiality has been predominantly conceptualized as a stabilizing factor in processes of social ordering. Here, Karen Barad's agential realism offers a different notion of materiality emphasizing the open, eventful, and potentially destabilizing effects of matter. With regard to this theoretical tension the present article argues that especially the case of social robotics in elderly care renders visible the fragility of technological interconnecting, thus requiring a new conceptualization of materiality within thoroughly technologized society. In order to achieve this, the article proposes an 'analytics of interfacing' accounting for the eventful material conditions of technological interconnecting. By synthesizing Barad's account of 'intraaction' and Gilbert Simondon's notion of 'disposability' such an analytics focuses on the procedural modalities by which techno-scientific regimes render hetergeneous entities disposable for one another, thus interfacing them. This is demonstrated by the case of prototypical user experiments of roboticized care within the context of European innovation politics.

"Ein Amoklauf wie der am 11.03.2009 in Winnenden überrascht die Gesellschaft, in der er stattfindet. Er fungiert gewissermaßen als Bezugspunkt für die mediale Ausleuchtung beteiligter Organisationen, Milieus, Personen und schließlich des Täters selbst. Fragen werden gestellt, Erklärungen gesucht und Prognosen abgegeben, wie in Zukunft ein solches Ereignis verhindert werden kann. Diese Dynamik ist jedoch nicht nur auf der Ebene des medialen Diskurses, sondern auch in der Organisation Schule beobachtbar, namentlich in einem vorn Amoklauf nicht (direkt) betroffenen oberbayerischen Gymnasium. Der Diskurs - so lässt sich empirisch sehen - setzt sich auf mehr als einer Ebene fort. Um dies diskursanalytisch beobachten zu können, bedarf es einer organisationssoziologisch fundierten Erweiterung diskursanalytischer Werkzeuge. Im Rahmen dieses Beitrages soll dies anhand einer Synthese von Niklas Luhmanns Systemtheorie und Michel Foucaults Diskurstheorie geleistet werden. Zentraler Anknüpfungspunkt ist die operative Ausrichtung beider Theorien. Ziel ist es, erste Überlegungen zu einer operativ erweiterten Diskursanalyse anzustellen, um damit den Amoklauf-Diskurs nach Winnenden als Beispiel einer komplexen neuen Welt beschreiben zu können." (Autorenreferat)

"Lebhafte AußenseiterInnen-Biographien von contergangeschädigten Menschen provozieren eine Diskursforschung, welche das Soziale als Diskurs beschreibt. Denn versucht man, jene Selbstbeschreibungen an den (wissenschaftlichen) Diskurs über Contergan anzuschließen, scheint man nur auf 'Brechungen, Verschiebungen und Verwerfungen' (Freitag 2007; 266) zu stoßen und schließlich eine Form der Kritik ans Tageslicht zu fördern, die außerhalb jedes Diskurses, außerhalb jeder Sozialität steht. Die Baustelle diskurstheoretischer Arbeit umfasst also zunächst das Problem, wo man eine solche Form der Kritik der 'Anormalen' mit den Mitteln des Diskurses aufspüren und sie - entgegen der ersten Vermutung - nicht als in einem 'hiographischen Eigensinn' (ebd.) verwurzelt, sondern selbst als ein soziales Phänomen beschreiben kann. Konkret sollen im Folgenden die Ausführungen Walburga Freitags (vgl. Freitag 2005, 2007) (2.) aus diskurstheoretischer Sicht kritisiert werden (3.), um diese Kritik schließlich nach fruchtbaren Implikationen für eine Anwendung der Diskurstheorie in den Disability Studies zu befragen." (Textauszug)

This book investigates the emergence of RobotCare within the context of European innovation politics. Here, it takes the interconnection of robotics and care as the product of a wide range of political, technological, and social processes, which have made RobotCare possible as a project. For this, the study proposes an analytics of interfacing, which focuses on the milieus and practices of a techno-politics of innovation, where robotics and care could become available for one another. ; Dieses Buch erforscht die Entstehung von RoboterPflege im Kontext europäischer Innovationspolitik. Hierzu versteht es die Verschaltung von Robotik und Pflege als das Produkt einer Reihe von politischen, technologischen und sozialen Prozessen, die RoboterPflege als Projekt möglich gemacht haben. Dazu schlägt die Studie eine Analytik des Interfacing vor, die Milieus und Praktiken einer Techno-Politik der Innovation in den Fokus nimmt, in der Robotik und Pflege füreinander verfügbar werden konnten.

In addition to tapping data from users' behavioral surplus, by drawing on generative adversarial networks, data for artificial intelligence is now increasingly being generated through artificial intelligence. With this new method of producing data synthetically, the data economy is not only shifting from "data collection" to "data generation." Synthetic data is also being employed to address some of the most pressing ethical concerns around artificial intelligence. It thereby comes with the sociotechnical imaginary that social problems can be cut out of artificial intelligence, separating training data from real persons. In response to this technical solutionism, this commentary aims to initiate a critical debate about synthetic data that goes beyond misuse scenarios such as the use of generative adversarial networks to create deep fakes or dark patterns. Instead, on a more general level, we seek to complicate the idea of "solving," i.e., "closing" and thus "silencing" the ethico-political debates for which synthetic data is supposed to be a solution by showing how synthetic data itself is political. Drawing on the complex connections between recent uses of synthetic data and public debates about artificial intelligence, we therefore propose to consider and analyze synthetic data not only as a technical device but as a discursive one as well. To this end, we shed light on their relationship to three pillars that we see associated with them (a) algorithmic bias, (b) privacy, (c) platform economy.

When the social relevance of robotic applications is addressed today, the use of assistive technology in care settings is almost always the first example. So-called care robots are presented as a solution to the nursing crisis, despite doubts about their technological readiness and the lack of concrete usage scenarios in everyday nursing practice. We inquire into this interconnection of social robotics and care. We show how both are made available for each other in three arenas: innovation policy, care organization, and robotic engineering. First, we analyze the discursive "logics" of care robotics within European innovation policy, second, we disclose how care robotics is encountering a historically grown conflict within health care organization, and third we show how care scenarios are being used in robotic engineering. From this diagnosis, we derive a threefold critique of robotics in healthcare, which calls attention to the politics, historicity, and social situatedness of care robotics in elderly care. ; TU Berlin, Open-Access-Mittel – 2021

AbstractCo-creation has become a major concern in science and public policy. It aims to give a more central role to end users in producing (public sector) innovation outcomes. This leads to a new variety of end user roles in innovation activities and poses challenges for both practitioners and policy makers. We offer an in-depth, comparative analysis of such end user roles in three cases of co-creative public sector innovation across Europe. We argue that the definition of particular end user roles is crucial in shaping both the inclusiveness and outcomes of co-creative innovation. We offer a typology of end user roles and their respective limits and potentials with regard to co-creation. Our analysis suggests that, for co-creation to produce useful and legitimate outcomes, the process by which roles are assigned to and negotiated with end users must be part of the co-creative process itself.

Frontmatter --Inhalt --Einführung --Gute Technik für ein gutes Leben?! --Altersgerechte Assistenzsysteme: Ein Überblick --Technik und Pflege im professionellen Kontext und (privaten) Alltag --Die Nutzung von digitalen Kommunikationstechnologien in ambulanten und stationären Pflegeeinrichtungen während der COVID-19-Pandemie --Arbeit und Geschlecht. Strukturelle und normative Grundlagen von Technisierungsprozessen in der Pflege --Datenschutz und digitale Ethik --Altern und Verletzlichkeit: Gero-Technologien als Bestandteil einer therapeutisch-rehabilitativen Dyade? --Altersgerechte Assistenzsysteme und Nutzungshemmnisse --Die tatsächliche Nutzung digitaler Assistenzsysteme in der Altenpflege --Nutzung, Planung und Bewertung digitaler Assistenzsysteme in der Pflege --Digitale Technik in der ambulanten und stationären Pflege --Vertrauen, Wissen, Innovation und Wohltun als (neue) Herausforderungen im Kontext digitaler Assistenzsysteme --Implementierung und Evaluation von (digitaler) Pflegetechnik --Möglichkeiten des Bewegungsmonitorings durch Fitnesstracker nach einer Hüftfraktur --Digitalisierte Bewegungsentwicklung geriatrischer Traumapatient*innen --Zum Potenzial grundlagenwissenschaftlicher Technikforschung für ein »gutes Leben im Alter« --Anforderungen an die Evaluation von altersgerechten Assistenztechnologien aus gesundheitsökonomischer Sicht --Technikimplementierung in der Pflege: die Bedeutung der soziotechnischen Innovationsbewertung aus gesundheitsökonomischer Sicht --Autor*innen