When Pinocchio becomes a real boy: Capability and felicity in AI and interactive depictions.

Journal: The Behavioral and brain sciences
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Abstract

Clark and Fischer analyze social robots as depictions, presenting characters that people can interact with in social settings. Unlike other types of depictions, the props for social robot depictions depend on emerging interactive technologies. This raises questions about how such depictions depict: They conflate character and prop in ways that delight, confuse, mistreat, and may become ordinary human-technology interactions.

Authors

  • John M Carroll
    College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA jmcarroll@psu.edu; https://jcarroll.ist.psu.edu.