Emotion and Adaptation

Nationality: American Education: Ph.D. in Sociology and Personality... Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology â€¦ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together Start by marking â€œAlone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Otherâ€ as Want to Read: ... Unfortunately I am no closer to telling you why we expect more from technology & less from each other than I was before I read this book. One of the main things that bothered me about this book was that, even though I was really interested in these â€¦

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

The screen shows a bag of popcorn on a table. Several kernels have fallen from the bag. An adult, watching with preschool children, asks a question about the picture: "What will happen to the popcorn if I pick up the television set and turn it upside down?" A lot of kids say that the rest of the popcorn will spill out of the bag. While interesting, this mistake is not really surprising. Children often take television literally. They'll soon be older, and will be wise enough to know better.

Media Equation 研究の背景と動向

Artificial intelligence (AI) and people’s interactions with it—through virtual agents, socialbots, and language-generation software—do not fit neatly into paradigms of communication theory that hav...

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Artificial intelligence and communication: A Human–Machine Communication research agenda:

In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns. By John G. Geer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 218p. $47.50 cloth, $19.00 paper. This book begins with a series of quotes from scholars and media pundits arguing that negative political advertisements are uncivil, mean-spirited, emotion-laden distortions of the truth, which not only smear their target but also mislead voters and undermine the political process itself; in short, they are the scourge of democracy. Or so the conventional wisdom goes. But John Geer asks us to reject the starting assumption that attack ads are bad. In fact, he argues that democracy requires candidates to attack each other. His argument is simple but powerful: All advertisements, by their very nature, exaggerate the truth. But this point applies equally to negative and positive ads. We cannot expect political candidates to fairly discuss their weaknesses along with their strengths. That is the role of the opposition, and it can only be done by offering criticisms of the opposing candidate or party. The real questions, then, are 1) whether negative ads perform their role effectively, or instead distort and confuse the vote choices citizens must make; and 2) whether attack ads, in performing a role that seems to be required of them, nonetheless undermine the democratic political system of which they are a crucial part.

In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns

Children will increasingly encounter, and form social relationships with, social robots. Accordingly, scholars have called for transparency toward children about what social robots are and what they can(not) do to manage children's expectations of this new type of communication partner. Prior research has shown that the way adults present social robots to children can influence children's perception of, and relationship formation with, a robot. To date, however, no studies have yet investigated whether a social robot's own provision of transparent information about its (in)abilities can alter how children perceive and relate to it. To fill this gap initially, we conducted a one-factorial between-subject experiment among 276 children aged 8–10 years old. Children interacted with a robot that either provided them with information about its lack of human psychological capacities and machine status, or not. Exposure to this information decreased children's feelings of closeness toward and trust in the robot. Children's tendency to anthropomorphize the robot mediated the effects of transparency on closeness and trust, while their perception of the robot's similarity to themselves only mediated children's feelings of closeness. Our findings are discussed in light of the ongoing ethical discussion on child-robot relationships. 

Transparent robots: How children perceive and relate to a social robot that acknowledges its lack of human psychological capacities and machine status

What If Robots Were Transparent? How Children Perceive and Relate to a Social Robot that Acknowledges its Lack of Human Psychological Capacities and Machine Status

Rinaldo Kühne

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Transparent robots: How children perceive and relate to a social robot that acknowledges its lack of human psychological capacities and machine status

What If Robots Were Transparent? How Children Perceive and Relate to a Social Robot that Acknowledges its Lack of Human Psychological Capacities and Machine Status