Tag: robots

• Pop Culture Lens on Robots, Anthropomorphism, and Ethics

  

  In this video, part of the new YouTube Channel for The Pop Culture Lens, you will hear an excerpt from a lecture I gave on robots. In this excerpt, I discuss the nature of robots and how it intersects with the concept of anthropomorphism. I make the argument for why such anthropomorphism, and zoomorphism, occurs, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 27, 2016

  Artificial Agents, Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies

  AI, anthropomorphism, artificial intelligence, ethics, robotics, robots, toys, zoomorphism

• Gendering Robots: A Class Discussion

  

  The next research project I hope to work on looks at how people make sense of robots. I am particularly interested in how people apply gendered assumptions and attributions to robots or artificial agents, and how apply those assumptions then impact how people engage with robots. In a sense, robots have become another medium as […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 20, 2016

  Film Studies, Gender Studies, Gendering Robots

  AI, Artificial Agents, Big Hero 6, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, communication, Ex Machina, gender, gender stereotypes, Metropolis, robots, Sense-making, Short Circuit, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Wars, The Forbidden Planet, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Jetsons, Wall-E

• Gendering Robots 2005 Proposed Research Methods

  

  As discussed in the previous post Gendering Robots 2006 Research Proposal, I have been thinking about doing research on how people make sense of the gendered nature of robots, AI, and other artificial agents — apparently for longer than I remembered! Here is the method section I wrote over a decade ago for how to […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 4, 2016

  Artificial Agents, Audience/Reception Studies

  AI, Artificial Agents, attractive, Bem, Bem Sex Role Inventory, Chris Carter, computer-generated, gender, gender schema, gendering, HCI, Implicit Association Test, real, Reception, robots, schema, Social Category Verification Task

• Gendering Robots 2005 Research Proposal

  

  Recently, the question of how we attribute gender to asexual entities like robots and AI has been something I have been pondering more and more. How we understand engage with entities like Alexa from Amazon, Siri from Apple, and Cortana from Microsoft is fascinating, as well as how we think about robots like BB-8 or […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 2, 2016

  Artificial Agents, Audience/Reception Studies

  AI, ambiguity, androgyny, Artificial Agents, artificial intelligence, asexual, computers, gender, gendered, HCI, HRI, human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, perception, Reception, reception studies, robots, schema, stereotypes