Lee et al.’s article titled, “Can Robots Manifest Personality?: An Empirical Test of Personality Recognition, Social Responses, and Social Presence in Human–Robot Interaction” focused on the inquisition of the potential capability robots have to curate[…]

In the article, “Robot-Mediated Communication,” Susan Herring defines robotic-mediated communication (RMC), explains the implications of social interaction through robots, goes into the limitations and advantages of RMC, and proposes solutions to some of the existing[…]

“From Visual Simulation to Virtual Reality to Games,” describes the difference between serious games and entertainment games. The article defines a serious game as one that uses the interactive features for training for government, health[…]

In the “Rise of Machine Agency: A Framework for Studying the Psychology of Human AI Interaction (HAII), Sundar studies the symbolic and enabling effects of the affordances of AI-driven media on user perceptions and experiences. […]

In “From Visual Simulation to Virtual Reality to Games”, the author Michael Zyda examines how the field of virtual reality and gaming will continue to evolve and how it will benefit not only the entertainment[…]

“Future Progress in Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Expert Opinion” answers a series of questions about artificial intelligence by asking five different groups of people who know something about artificial intelligence. The big question is[…]

I watched Kate Darling’s Ted Talk Why we have an emotional connection to robots which opens with her showing an explanation of a struggling dinosaur robot, being held upside down, crying in distress. She explains[…]

In this TED Talk, Kate Darling recounts a time in which she felt sympathetic towards a robot. It was a little dinosaur that had tilting sensors, so when it was held upside down, it was[…]

In Sundar’s “Rise of Machine Agency: A Framework for Studying the Psychology of Human—AI Interaction (HAII),” Sundar argues that the TIME framework should be used to study the enabling effects and affordances of AI-driven media[…]

In “From Visual Simulation to Virtual Reality to Games,” Zyda argues that, along with advancing interactive entertainment, game developers also have the potential to impact the future of interactive training, education and simulation.    Zyda[…]

In an empirical study of personality recognition, social presence and social response in human-robot interaction, researchers acknowledge that robots are assimilating into our daily lives as designed to socially interact with humans, in caretaker or[…]

Robot Ethicist Kate Darling examined our relationships with robots in her 2019 Ted Talk “Why Would We Have an Emotional Connection to Robots?”. To start, we have been primed by pop culture to personify robots.[…]

Recently, I was scrolling through Instagram and I saw a video about a student who was no longer allowed to attend in-person instruction at his public elementary school because of behavioral issues. The school instead[…]