Between
object and
being.
Our research investigates the psychological, organizational, and social implications of interacting with humanlike technologies. These artificial persons – anthropomorphic robots, chatbots, digital avatars, and other social AI agents – are increasingly occupying a new ontological category in our collective consciousness, somewhere between inanimate objects and living beings.
RAP Lab · Artificial Persons
HRI research notes
Furhat Setup & First Conversation
A step-by-step guide for a complete beginner: set up the physical Furhat robot and the Virtual Furhat, run your first Python scripts, and hold a real…
Furhat Setup & First Conversation
A step-by-step guide for a complete beginner: set up the physical Furhat robot and the Virtual Furhat, run your first Python scripts, and hold a real…
How to Record Body Signals Properly: A Practical Guide
Why a body sensor is not a lie detector A sensor gives you a number, and a number looks like proof. But a skin conductance reading…
Why Your EEG Keeps Railing, and How to Get a Perfect Connection
Ok, finally I documenting my first, second and third experience trying to use the EEG. It wasn’t a success but I learnt a lot and this…
PsychoPy Beginner Tutorial
Build a word recognition experiment step by step PsychoPy lets you present material to participants, collect their answers, and record response times. This tutorial walks you…
Designing Robots People Want to Interact With
What human robot interaction research teaches us about expectations, trust and today’s humanoids How does a pile of motors, sensors and plastic become something people want…
From Unboxing to Brainwaves: A Beginner’s Guide to the OpenBCI GUI
The OpenBCI GUI is a free program that connects to an OpenBCI board, such as the Cyton, the Cyton with Daisy, or the Ganglion, and turns…
How to Connect an EEG Cap to the OpenBCI Cyton + Daisy Boards
Introduction You need three kinds of connections to get brain signals from an EEG cap into the OpenBCI GUI: a ground, a reference, and one cable…
The OpenBCI Cyton + Daisy Kit: What Each Piece Does
Reference guide for the Neurophysiological Play demo The full kit If you are looking for a more elaborate guide, I have hosted it on my subdomain…
Human Robot Interaction (HRI) Research
I started HRIresearcher.com because of how hard it was for me to find information about the HRI field for my research. I tried using AI, but…
Before the First Participant: Building an EEG Research Toolkit from Scratch
A few weeks into my PhD in Information Systems at McMaster’s DeGroote School of Business, I’ve learned something that no methods textbook quite prepared me for:…