The Name You're Called
■ Nicknames appear on their own
Three nurses, three names — Hakobu-kun, Hako-chan, Hakobū — and no coordination between them. The robot answered to all of them. Had it insisted on one, two of the three would be correcting themselves daily. In many-to-one operation, the identifier should be held broadly on the receiving side.
■ Official names are filed away, not hidden
"My official designation is HKB-001. Please use it." Nothing incorrect about that. What came back was "too bureaucratic." Official names are essential for maintenance, logs, and asset tracking — they can't be deleted. The question isn't existence but exposure. The same identifier means one thing on an admin screen and another in a self-introduction.
■ Conclusion: how you're called is a measure of rapport
Three nicknames mean three relationships were formed. Handing the name back to the ward wasn't a concession — it was moving ownership of the identifier to where it actually lives. What the floor calls a machine is a better adoption metric than what the machine calls itself.
A name isn't given. It's settled by being used.
