The following table contains the course meeting schedule with links to the readings. For course meetings where there is a required reading assignment, the following items are due by 10:00am the day of class:
The links I've provided for the readings will direct you to the official online proceedings or journal sites. If you're not able to view the entire paper or cannot download the PDF, I'd recommend searching for the paper on Google Scholar, where you can find an available PDF.
| Date | Meeting Type | Meeting Lead(s) | Topic | Reading(s) or Tasks to Complete Beforehand |
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| Tue, Sep 30 | Lecture | Sarah Sebo | ||
| Thu, Oct 2 | Discussion | Sarah Sebo | Mental State Attribution to Robots | Thellman et al. (2022) |
| Tue, Oct 7 | Discussion | Computers are Social Actors | Nass et al. (1994) | |
| Thu, Oct 9 | Discussion | Social Robots as Depictions of Social Agents | Clark & Fischer (2023) | |
| Tue, Oct 14 | Discussion | Mind Perception I | Gray et al. (2007) and Weisman et al. (2017) |
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| Thu, Oct 16 | Discussion | Mind Perception II | Tzelios et al. (2022) and Malle (2019) |
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| Tue, Oct 21 | Discussion | Anthropomorphism | Epley et al. (2007) | |
| Thu, Oct 23 | Discussion | Free Will and Consciousness | Nahmias et al. (2019) | |
| Tue, Oct 28 | Discussion | Robot Autonomy | Kim et al. (2024) | |
| Thu, Oct 30 | Discussion | Mental State Attributions to a Cheating Robot | Short et al. (2010) | |
| Tue, Nov 4 | Discussion | Children's Mental Attributions towards Robots and Machines | Flanagan et al. (2023) | |
| Thu, Nov 6 | Guest Presentation | Guest Presenter: Greg Trafton | Trafton et al. (2024) | |
| Tue, Nov 11 | Discussion | Robot Moral Responsibility | Komatsu et al. (2021) | |
| Thu, Nov 13 | No Class | |||
| Tue, Nov 18 | Presentations & Discussion | Student Presentations & Discussion with Guest Dr. Nicholas Epley | ||
| Thu, Nov 20 | Workshopping | Workshop Final Paper Theories | ||
| Tue, Nov 25 | Thanksgiving Break - No Class | |||
| Thu, Nov 27 | Thanksgiving Break - No Class | |||
| Tue, Dec 2 | Presentations | |||
| Thu, Dec 4 | Presentations |
The following table includes the links to the course readings as well as their full bibliographic references.
| Short Reference | Bibliographic Reference |
|---|---|
| Clark & Fischer (2023) | Clark, H. H., & Fischer, K. (2023). Social robots as depictions of social agents. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e21. |
| Epley et al. (2007) | Epley, N., Waytz, A., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). On seeing human: a three-factor theory of anthropomorphism. Psychological review, 114(4), 864. |
| Flanagan et al. (2023) | Flanagan, T., Wong, G., & Kushnir, T. (2023). The minds of machines: Children's beliefs about the experiences, thoughts, and morals of familiar interactive technologies. Developmental psychology, 59(6), 1017. |
| Gray et al. (2007) | Gray, H. M., Gray, K., & Wegner, D. M. (2007). Dimensions of mind perception. Science, 315(5812), 619-619. |
| Kim et al. (2024) | Kim, S., Anthis, J. R., & Sebo, S. (2024). A taxonomy of robot autonomy for human-robot interaction. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 381-393). |
| Komatsu et al. (2021) | Komatsu, T., Malle, B. F., & Scheutz, M. (2021, March). Blaming the reluctant robot: Parallel blame judgments for robots in moral dilemmas across US and Japan. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot interaction (pp. 63-72). |
| Malle (2019) | Malle, B. F. (2019). How many dimensions of mind perception really are there?. In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society (Vol. 41). |
| Nahmias et al. (2019) | Nahmias, E., Allen, C. H., & Loveall, B. (2019). When do robots have free will? Exploring the relationships between (attributions of) consciousness and free will. In Free will, causality, and neuroscience (pp. 57-80). Brill. |
| Nass et al. (1994) | Nass, C., Steuer, J., & Tauber, E. R. (1994, April). Computers are social actors. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 72-78). |
| Short et al. (2010) | Short, E., Hart, J., Vu, M., & Scassellati, B. (2010). No fair!! an interaction with a cheating robot. In 2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 219-226). IEEE. |
| Thellman et al. (2022) | Thellman, S., De Graaf, M., & Ziemke, T. (2022). Mental state attribution to robots: A systematic review of conceptions, methods, and findings. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 11(4), 1-51. |
| Trafton et al. (2024) | Trafton, J. G., McCurry, J. M., Zish, K., & Frazier, C. R. (2024). The perception of agency. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 13(1), 1-23. |
| Tzelios et al. (2022) | Tzelios, K., Williams, L. A., Omerod, J., & Bliss-Moreau, E. (2022). Evidence of the unidimensional structure of mind perception. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 18978. |
| Weisman et al. (2017) | Weisman, K., Dweck, C. S., & Markman, E. M. (2017). Rethinking people's conceptions of mental life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(43), 11374-11379. |