Robot Personality & Similarity in Human-Robot Interaction

Attributing Personalities to Robots and the Implications for Teaming in HRI

As human's interactions with robots become increasingly social and intimate elements of human-human psychology come into play. In particular, personalities both a human and artificial emerge and begin to color how one understands with and interacts with the other.

Humanizing What Isn't

It is one of those curiously human things that we give life to that which has none. We so frequently project personalities on the inanimate as we have since the gods of ancient times. What then of inanimate things that play quite effectively at being human? How might we begin to understand the impact that these little homunculi have on ourselves and others?