机器人在图书馆：挑战或机遇——2019年国际图联大会会前卫星会议信息技术分会的亮点集锦

The Highlights of the IFLA WLIC 2019 Preconference Satellite Meeting Information Technology Section-Robots in Libraries: Challenge or Opportunity

2019年8月21日和22日,笔者参加了在德国柏林Wildau应用科技大学召开的国际图联大会IFLA WLIC会前卫星会议信息技术分会。分会主题是“机器人在图书馆:挑战或机遇”。在题为“用于图书馆的人工智能机器人:探索性问题”的演讲中,来自美国罗德岛大学图书馆的副教授兼首席技术官Bohyun Kim首先概述了机器人和人工智能机器人的定义。然后,Bohyun Kim专注于3个主题:(1)我们可能期望在未来的图书馆看到什么样的机器人;(2)人们的信息搜寻活动可能形成什么样的人机关系;(3)新的人机关系可能产生什么样的伦理和社会问题。

On August 21&22,2019,I attended the IFLA WLIC Preconference Satellite Meeting—Robots in Libraries:Challenge or Opportunity at Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau,Berlin,Germany.In her presentation entitled“AI-powered Robots for Libraries:Exploratory questions”,Bohyun Kim,CTO for the University Libraries and Associate Professor from the University of Rhode Island,USA,first had an overview about definitions of Robot and AI-Powered Robots.Then she focused on three topics:(1)what kind of robots we may expect to see at libraries in the future;(2)what kind of human-robot relationship may be formed in people’s information-seeking activities;(3)what ethical and social issues may arise from the new human-robot relationship.