In the article, “Can Robots Manifest Personality”, Lee et al. discusses the importance for robots to posses human personality traits to have meaningful human-robot interaction. Lee discusses how the success of this interaction relies heavily[…]

In Susan Herring’s Robot-Mediated Communication, she discusses a new concept of telepresence robot-mediated communication (RMC) in which human-human communication is fostered through robots/AI. RMC, more specifically, is defined as “human-human communication in which at least[…]

In “Robot-Mediated Communication,” Susan Herring discussed telepresence robot-mediated communication and key technological properties of telepresence robots. She also evaluated the robots’ advantages and disadvantages, leaving some questions that can be explored by future studies. According[…]

In “Robot-Mediated Communication,” Susan Herring argues that there is a need for a better framework for studying the telepresence of robot-mediated discourse and language use. Robot-mediated communication is defined by Herring as the way humans[…]

In the TedTalk “Why we have an emotional connection to robots,” Kate Darling argues that human biology hardwires us to project intent and life onto anything moving, thereby increasing our emotional attachment to robots.   After[…]

In Virtually Perfect? Telemedicine for Covid-19, Judd E. Hollander, M.D. and Brendan G. Carr, M.D. show the benefits of utilizing technology for delivering and receiving care remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic. Specifically, the authors emphasize[…]

In Robot-Mediated Communication, Herring argues the need for a new framework to guide future study of telepresence robot-mediated discourse and language use. In this study, Herring discusses robot-mediated communication (RMC) and its purpose, the technological[…]

In “Virtually Perfect? Telemedicine for Covid-19,” Judd E. Hollander and Brendan G. Carr argue that telemedicine provides an abundance of benefits to both patients and health professionals, and is increasingly emerging in the medical field[…]

In “Can Robots Manifest Personality”, Lee et al. argue that personality plays a key role in the development of enhanced human-robot interaction (HRI) and that if it were to be adopted there needs to be[…]

In Why we have an emotional connection to robots, Kate Darling argues that as humans continue to place emotions on robots and treat them as beings with emotions, we could actually cause consequences for our[…]

In Can Robots Manifest Personality?: An Empirical Test of Personality Recognition, Social Responses, and Social Presence in Human-Robot Interaction, Lee hypothesizes and analyzes the detection of personality within Human-Robot Interaction, better known as HRI. Of[…]

In the article, “ Can Science-based Video Games Help Kids with Autism?”, Sarah DeWeerdt discusses the remedial impact that technology has on children with autism. DeWeerdt emphasized that children with autism, especially boys with autism,[…]

In the Netflix series Explained eSports, the narrator introduces the phenomenon of eSports and its impact on our society today. As our world is more familiar with physical/in-person sports, the world of eSports is booming.[…]

In Interactive Multimedia-Based E-Learning: A Study of Effectiveness, Dongsong Zhang argues that students in an interactive multimedia-based e-learning environment can achieve higher test scores and report higher levels of satisfaction than those in a traditional[…]

In “Can science-based video games help kids with autism?”, Sarah Deweerdt introduced Jeanne Townsend and Leanne Chukoskie, who work hard to develop video games that help children with autism. Games may improve a range of[…]

In this article, the promising aspects about telehealth are discussed, specifically in the context of Covid-19. Because patients want the most convenient and inexpensive medical care, it is up for debate if perhaps telehealth is[…]

In Sarah DeWeerdt’s Can Science-Based Video Games Help Kids with Autism, lab directors Jeanne Townsend and Leanne Chukoskie are introduced, and their research on video games for autism is shown in detail. The Research on[…]

In Netflix’s “Explained: eSports”, the narrator paints a picture about how much the field of eSports has grown since 2012, with viewership increasing 600% by 2017. Further, she explains that major companies are investing big[…]

In “Can science-based video games help kids with autism?” Sarah DeWeerdt argues that autistic children are more drawn to technology, and thus video games can serve therapeutic purposes for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. […]

In The New York Times articles, the majority of the authors argue that remote learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused students to disproportionately suffer and calls on a variety of people[…]

 Interactive Multimedia-based E-learning: A Study of Effectiveness, Zhang tests a number of hypotheses on the effectiveness of online learning with interactivity as opposed to a traditional classroom setting. This research is extremely prevalent today as[…]

In this research experiment, there are three groups with different controls, with the goal of showing that highly interactive online learning is more effective and brings more satisfaction than less interactive e-learning and even traditional[…]

In COVID-19 and student performance, equity, and U.S. education policy, Garcia and Weiss summarize literature done on aspects of education relative to the COVID-19 crisis, and argue that learning time has been interrupted, leading to[…]

In Netflix’s Esports: Explained, the creators argue that esports are not only sports but that they have certain characteristics, which have allowed them to rise rapidly in popularity relative to traditional sports over the last[…]