Martin CHEVALLIER

PhD Candidate
CEMS-EHESS

After achieving a master degree of philosophy at Paris Sorbonne University and another of history of science and technologies at Centre Alexandre Koyré (EHESS), Martin Chevallier began a thesis of sociology with a PhD contract (2018-2021) at Centre d'études des mouvements sociaux (CEMS-EHESS), under the supervision of Claude Rosental. The purpose is to link the implication of the innovators and other "experts'" of social robotics in the management of psychosocial risks associated with social robots, their role in the definition of politics of innovation at national and european level, and the multiplication of full-scale tests and experimentations with dependant users, in living labs or shops, which will be subject to a multi-located ethnography. He argues that these efforts converge to produce "acceptable" and "ethical by design" robots and that the backing of this innovation by embedded social scientists is one of the core element of this emerging model of the regulation of relations between science and society, renewing the devices of technical democracy and participation.

Research themes: Robotics, France, Sociology of techniques, Co-construction of uses, Ethnography

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