We examine artificial persons across workplaces, homes, healthcare, entertainment, and social environments to understand the wide-ranging impacts of humanlike technology.
Workplaces and healthcare
In professional and clinical settings, anthropomorphic agents raise distinct questions around trust, authority, and emotional labor. A robot assisting in eldercare carries different stakes than one greeting customers in a retail store.
Homes and entertainment
In more personal settings, humanlike technologies shape companionship, daily routines, and even emotional attachment. Understanding these dynamics is essential as robots and AI companions become more common in everyday life.
Why context matters
The same anthropomorphic design can produce very different effects depending on where and how it is encountered. Studying this diversity of contexts allows us to avoid one-size-fits-all conclusions and instead build nuanced, situation-specific insights.