HRI Researcher is a practical blog about human-robot interaction research. I started it because information about the field was hard to find when I began my own research, so I write down what I learn as I go.
The research behind it 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.
Posts are written from the Research on Artificial Persons (RAP) Lab at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business.