- The Moral Accountability of a Personified Agent
Explores whether people are willing to attribute moral accountability to an interactive chat agent. Considers issues of design with respect to the agent's level of moral reasoning and ability to explicate its understanding of moral obligations.
- Children's Attributions of Moral Standing to Personified Technologies
Investigating the impact of technology design on how children conceptualize social and moral interactions between humans and personified technology. Addresses the questions of whether and how children generalize their knowledge of social and moral interactions amongst humans to interactions amongst humans and technology.
social, emotional, &
ethical design
children's technology design, social and moral development, social robots, embodied agents,
personified technology, human flourishing, value sensitive design, contemplative computing