Sherry Turkle
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sherry Turkle plays a role.
Articles
2010 In good company? On the threshold of robotic Companions Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 3–10 | Article
Most contributors to this volume believe that only technical matters stand between where we are now and a time when robots will be our Companions and teachers. Robots need to expand their domains of understanding, and if those domains should be emotional, well, that will be a technical matter as… read more
2007 Authenticity in the age of digital companions Psychological Benchmarks of Human–Robot Interaction, Kahn, Jr., Peter H. and Karl F. MacDorman (eds.), pp. 501–517 | Article
The first generation of children to grow up with electronic toys and games saw computers as our “nearest neighbors.” They spoke of computers as rational machines and of people as emotional machines, a fragile formulation destined to be challenged. By the mid-1990s, computational creatures,… read more