Batya Friedman

List of John Benjamins publications for which Batya Friedman plays a role.

Articles

Kahn, Jr., Peter H., Hiroshi Ishiguro, Batya Friedman, Takayuki Kanda, Nathan G. Freier, Rachel L. Severson and Jessica Miller 2007 What is a Human? Toward psychological benchmarks in the field of human–robot interaction Psychological Benchmarks of Human–Robot Interaction, Kahn, Jr., Peter H. and Karl F. MacDorman (eds.), pp. 363–390 | Article

In this paper, we move toward offering psychological benchmarks to measure success in building increasingly humanlike robots. By psychological benchmarks we mean categories of interaction that capture conceptually fundamental aspects of human life, specified abstractly enough to resist their… read more

Kahn, Jr., Peter H., Batya Friedman, Deanne R. Pérez-Granados and Nathan G. Freier 2006 Robotic pets in the lives of preschool children Interaction Studies 7:3, pp. 405–436 | Article

This study examined preschool children’s reasoning about and behavioral interactions with one of the most advanced robotic pets currently on the retail market, Sony’s robotic dog AIBO. Eighty children, equally divided between two age groups, 34–50 months and 58–74 months, participated in… read more