3 papers
cs.HC2018
Conceptualization and Validation of a Novel Protocol for Investigating the Uncanny Valley
Megan Strait
Loosely based on principles of similarity-attraction, robots intended for social contexts are being designed with increasing human similarity to facilitate their reception by and c…
cs.CY2018
Verbal Disinhibition towards Robots is Associated with General Antisociality
Megan Strait, Virginia Contreras, Christian Duarte Vela
The emergence of agentic technologies (e.g., robots) in increasingly public realms (e.g., social media) has revealed surprising antisocial tendencies in human-agent interactions. I…
cs.CY2018
Robots Racialized in the Likeness of Marginalized Social Identities are Subject to Greater Dehumanization than those racialized as White
Megan Strait, Ana Sánchez Ramos, Virginia Contreras +1
The emergence and spread of humanlike robots into increasingly public domains has revealed a concerning phenomenon: people's unabashed dehumanization of robots, particularly those…