human-robot interaction — Hailey's Comment

Anthropomorphism: What it is and a bit of how it works

Two weeks ago, I introduced this series on anthropomorphism. In this post, I aim to describe more about what anthropomorphism is and about our understanding so far of how it works — ft. someone crying in a coffee shop, an old car, and some triangles & a circle.

articleHailey SchererApril 12, 2023anthropomorphism, human-robot interaction, human-ai interaction, intentional stance, magnoliaComment

Will we like tech more when it's more like us?

In 2017 alone, Amazon’s Alexa received over one million marriage proposals. You might imagine that most of these were jokes, you know—Alexa, will you marry me? Ha ha—but you might also agree it’s interesting that we seem far less likely to ask this—even as a joke—of the average dishwasher or calculator. The public lamented for NASA’s Curiosity Rover…

essayHailey SchererOctober 8, 2022anthropomorphism, human-robot interaction, human-ai interaction, technology, ethics, psychology