@amperjay

Prof at @iSchoolSU. Researching human-machine communication and media, especially mind, morality, trust in social AI/robots. @amperjay@hci.social 🤖🐶 🖥️🍷✈️

Syracuse, NY
Joined August 2009
Jaime Banks retweeted
Seeking folks with #AI #companions (like #replika, #kindroid, #nomiai) to participate in academic research exploring dimensions of this form of companionship. syracuseuniversity.qualtrics…
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Seeking folks with #AI #companions (like #replika, #kindroid, #nomiai) to participate in academic research exploring dimensions of this form of companionship. syracuseuniversity.qualtrics…
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I'll present three fun papers at HICSS next week, out now in Proceedings: *AI art debates over time: hdl.handle.net/10125/108904*… we see (different) robots as worthy of moral consideration: hdl.handle.net/10125/108906*… an LLM reminds you it's a machine: hdl.handle.net/10125/109120
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🤖Just in time for your holiday shopping.🤭 Our new book brings together 38 scholars from 12 countries--empiricists, engineers, ethicists, philosophers, rhetoricians, critical scholars--to break down social robots and their bits. a.co/d/cv7DOwu
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Check out the most excellent cover art (by Insta: ninjajo_art) for my upcoming edited volume (Peter Lang). It brings together works by 38 scholars from 12 countries--empiricists, engineers, ethicists, rhetoricians, critical scholars--to unpack robots and their sociality.
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We are very excited that the next Moral Media Conference will be held at @UBuffalo in April 2025! This year, we have a special submission track in which top papers will receive an auto-R&R decision for a special collection in @JMP_Hogrefe! More info & CFP: moralmedia.org/annual-meetin…
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Please take a minute to check out our #sxsw submission and considerat throwing it a vote. <3
.@Jessica_M_Szcz, @morallust, @bowmanspartan, and I hope to drop some knowledge on #sxsw with our panel on the science of AI companions. Please pop into #panelpicker and offer your vote for our session: panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/15…
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Neat. =) Check out #5 here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Trending in #SocialPsychology: ooir.org/index.php?field=Psy… 1) Correcting Misperceptions of Fundamental Differences Between U.S. Republicans & 2) Online Signals of Extremist Mobilization 3) Upward & Downward Prosocial Influence Across Levels of a Social Hierarchy 4) Financial Mindfulness: A Scale 5) Deletion, departure, death: Experiences of AI companion loss (@josoperrel)
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.@Jessica_M_Szcz, @morallust, @bowmanspartan, and I hope to drop some knowledge on #sxsw with our panel on the science of AI companions. Please pop into #panelpicker and offer your vote for our session: panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/15…
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New out with @bowmanspartan - unpacking the dimensions of Sense of Place across digital/physical and positively/negatively valenced spaces. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jOyQ…
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If you are going to be attending the International Communication Association conference next month in Gold Coast, Australia please join @amperjay and me for a blue sky session on communicative #AI and #humanrights - @icahdq @ICA_CAT @ICA_HMC
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Glad to be continuing my research over the next three years as SU iSchool's Katchmar-Wilhelm Endowed Professor ...
iSchool Associate Professor Jaime Banks has been selected as this year’s Katchmar-Wilhelm Endowed Professor. For the next three years, she will be researching companionship, cognition and characters. Read the full story here: bit.ly/3UxPGSk
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"Communicative AI and Human Rights" @amperjay and I will be hosting a Blue Sky workshop at the @icahdq conference - Gold Coast, Australia 22 June 2024. icahdq.org/mpage/ica24 #AIethics #HMC #robotrights #AI
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Students, we invite you to submit proposals to the #ICA24 Communication & Technology Division and Mobile Communication Division Doctoral Consortium. Proposals are due 1 February 2024. More information here: buff.ly/48U410A
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I'm conducting a study to better understand the motivations for and benefits from consuming #cyberpunk genre media. Online #survey, 20-30 minutes. US$50 Amazon gift card drawing. Please consider sharing your thoughts with me. =) syracuseuniversity.qualtrics…
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New pub led by K Koban: Secondary analysis of multiple studies, re correspondence b/w seeing robot mental capacities and more overtly ascribing mindful status. Only perc affective capacity (ability to feel emotion) links to ascribed mindfulness. #hmc #hri bit.ly/chbmind
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Oh wow! Just found that @amperjay and I have *two* papers nominated for Best Paper at @HICSSnews - one in the Game Studies track (on developing a scale for sense of place) and one in the HRI (human-robot interaction) track. See you in Jan 24! Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets… – at Colorado, USA
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