发表机构
University of Siegen; Honda Research Institute Europe（锡根大学; 本田欧洲研究院）
机构由 AI 辅助整理，请以论文原文为准。AI 中文总结
本文提出将机器人视为共享环境中的情境化元素和群体体验的催化剂，而非修复问题的社交代理，主张通过关系性能力设计来促进群体层面的意义建构。
AI 中文摘要
旨在调解人类群体的机器人常常陷入解决方案主义的陷阱：它们被框定为能够解决冲突、脱离参与或缺乏协调等问题的社交代理。我们提出一种不同的思考方式。与其将机器人视为离散的代理，不如将其理解为共享环境中的情境化元素；它们是群体体验的催化剂和载体，其意义通过人们如何定位、解释和与之互动而浮现。从这个视角来看，机器人并非要修复某种表面上的功能障碍，而是要促成围绕关怀、规范和身份的群体层面意义建构。我们先前关于机器人街道家具的研究表明，这并非通过模仿人类社交性来实现，而是通过采取一种刻意受限的、面向群体的实体形态，这种实体为我们而发生和行动，却不会像我们中的一员那样陷入社会纠缠。因此，我们理解公共空间中的机器人，不是依据自主性或智能，而是作为一种关系性能力。这意味着设计机器人不是按照我们的形象或为了我们的效用，而是植根于我们共同存在和共同生成的需求。
英文摘要
Robots designed to mediate human groups often fall into the solutionist trap: they are framed as sociable agents that fix problems such as conflict, disengagement, or lack of coordination. We suggest a different way of thinking. Rather than discrete agents, robots can be understood as situated elements of shared environments; catalysts and carriers of group experience whose meaning emerges through how people position, interpret, and interact with them. From this perspective, robots are not there to repair some ostensible dysfunctionality, but to enable group-level sense-making around care, norms, and identity. Our prior work on robotic street furniture suggests that this does not happen by imitating human sociality but by taking the shape of deliberately constrained, group-facing entities that happen and act for \textit{us} without being socially entangled as one of us. We thus understand robots in public spaces not in terms of autonomy or intelligence, but as a relational capacity. This implies designing robots not in our image or for our utility, but grounded in our needs in being and becoming together.
