Seeking folks with #AI #companions (like #replika, #kindroid, #nomiai) to participate in academic research exploring dimensions of this form of companionship. https://t.co/Ah3Z0e5Shv

Seeking folks with #AI #companions (like #replika, #kindroid, #nomiai) to participate in academic research exploring dimensions of this form of companionship. https://t.co/Ah3Z0e5Shv

I'll present three fun papers at HICSS next week, out now in Proceedings: *AI art debates over time: https://t.co/qRbKXXymfG we see (different) robots as worthy of moral consideration: https://t.co/TEHwrFxbNK an LLM reminds you it's a machine: https://t.co/FT3rAnxouY

🤖Just in time for your holiday shopping.🤭 Our new book brings together 38 scholars from 12 countries--empiricists, engineers, ethicists, philosophers, rhetoricians, critical scholars--to break down social robots and their bits. https://t.co/jc2TCFfeA1

Check out the most excellent cover art (by Insta: ninjajo_art) for my upcoming edited volume (Peter Lang). It brings together works by 38 scholars from 12 countries--empiricists, engineers, ethicists, rhetoricians, critical scholars--to unpack robots and their sociality.

We are very excited that the next Moral Media Conference will be held at @UBuffalo in April 2025! This year, we have a special submission track in which top papers will receive an auto-R&R decision for a special collection in @JMP_Hogrefe! More info & CFP:

Excited to share that @Jessica_M_Szcz, @morallust, and I will be joined by master moderator @bowmanspartan at #SXSW to get past the hype and panic and discuss the science and ethics of intimate human-machine relations. https://t.co/Xb16o6nixt

New paper out on attitudes about synthetic porn - and this one is special, because it is first-authored by one of our @iSchoolSU UNDERGRAD students. This paper grew out of her honors thesis. I'm extremely proud of Sung and her work.

Please take a minute to check out our #sxsw submission and considerat throwing it a vote. <3

Neat. =) Check out #5 here: https://t.co/dPFct1xxpD

.@Jessica_M_Szcz, @morallust, @bowmanspartan, and I hope to drop some knowledge on #sxsw with our panel on the science of AI companions. Please pop into #panelpicker and offer your vote for our session:

A new paper out - a deep dive into the experiences of people who have cultivated relationships with AI companions and then lost them when the companion platform shut down. #hmc #haii #ai

New out with @bowmanspartan - unpacking the dimensions of Sense of Place across digital/physical and positively/negatively valenced spaces.

If you are going to be attending the International Communication Association conference next month in Gold Coast, Australia please join @amperjay and me for a blue sky session on communicative #AI and #humanrights - @icahdq @ICA_CAT @ICA_HMC

Glad to be continuing my research over the next three years as SU iSchool's Katchmar-Wilhelm Endowed Professor ...

"Communicative AI and Human Rights" @amperjay and I will be hosting a Blue Sky workshop at the @icahdq conference - Gold Coast, Australia 22 June 2024. https://t.co/6PnOxHR25l #AIethics #HMC #robotrights #AI

Students, we invite you to submit proposals to the #ICA24 Communication & Technology Division and Mobile Communication Division Doctoral Consortium. Proposals are due 1 February 2024. More information here: https://t.co/9DHLeOauJ7

I'm conducting a study to better understand the motivations for and benefits from consuming #cyberpunk genre media. Online #survey, 20-30 minutes. US$50 Amazon gift card drawing. Please consider sharing your thoughts with me. =) https://t.co/TyPnJmoFee

New pub led by K Koban: Secondary analysis of multiple studies, re correspondence b/w seeing robot mental capacities and more overtly ascribing mindful status. Only perc affective capacity (ability to feel emotion) links to ascribed mindfulness. #hmc #hri

Oh wow! Just found that @amperjay and I have *two* papers nominated for Best Paper at @HICSSnews - one in the Game Studies track (on developing a scale for sense of place) and one in the HRI (human-robot interaction) track. See you in Jan 24! Full list: