Abstract. Social psychologists have documented that people attribute a humanlike agency to computers. Work in human motor cognition has identified a related effect known as "i...
We analyze a corpus of referring expressions collected from user interactions with a multimodal travel guide application. The analysis suggests that, in dramatic contrast to norma...
In this study, we analyzed people's conceptions of AIBO, a robotic pet, through their spontaneous postings in online AIBO discussion forums. Results showed that AIBO psycholo...
Peter H. Kahn Jr., Batya Friedman, Jennifer Hagman