Projective Anthropomorphism as a Dialogue with Ourselves

Anthropomorphism as a pervasive design concept for a robotic assistant

CORA is a robotic assistant whose task is to collaborate with a human operator on simple manipulation or handling tasks. Its sensory channels comprising vision, audition, haptics, and force sensing are used to extract perceptual information about speech, gestures and gaze of the operator, and object recognition. The anthropomorphic robot arm makes goaldirected movements to pick up and hand-over...

To see ourselves as others see us

There is enormous scope to learn lessons from health systems in other countries. The challenge is to learn the right lessons. The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research offers an important new platform where researchers and policy makers from different countries can come together to understand each other and share their experiences.This is a commentary on http://www.ijhpr.org/content/1/1/1/

Anthropomorphism Revisited

The MIT scientist Donald Griffin, widely-recognized for his experimental confirmation that bats use echo location in tracking insects and avoiding obstacles in the dark (Griffin, 1958/1974), later wrote widely defending the view that other animals are consciously aware and intelligent, like humans (Griffin, 1976, 2001). Based on the assumption that an example of possible human-like cleverness i...

Ourselves

Anthropomorphism – a Multi-Layered Phenomenon

Anthropomorphism is a way of making sense of complex behavior in the world around us. It is not one process, but involves several – quite independent – levels, e.g., primitive psychology, folk-psychology, social stereotypes and emotional anthropomorphism. This paper explores psychological and anthropological research into the different layers in order to better understand anthropomorphic proces...