<div dir="ltr">I feel the same way about this as I do about human terrain studies. Is this really a good direction to be going? What is the expected outcome for humans of human-robot interaction?<div><br></div><div>Sorry, due to a long career in tech as a linguistic anthropologist, I am on the Facebook feeds of a lot of Singularity, cyborg and robotics people. It is all creepy and misguided.</div><div><br></div><div>Someone explain to me what the value is.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>Eleanor</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Piers Kelly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Piers.Kelly@anu.edu.au" target="_blank">Piers.Kelly@anu.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>There's some new research on human-robot communication happening at the University of Queensland: <a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/research/technology/" target="_blank">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/research/technology/</a><br><br></div>But again, the focus is mostly 'ling' with not a lot of 'anth' – perhaps an opportunity here?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Matthew Bernius <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbernius@gmail.com" target="_blank">mbernius@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Michael H. Agar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:magar@umd.edu" target="_blank">magar@umd.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Kind of an expansion on the tradition that Lucy Suchman started at Xerox Parc many moons
ago.</blockquote></div><br></span>Thanks for bringing up Lucy Suchman. While it's not necessarily Ling Anthro, Human-Machine Reconfigurations is a definite read as one of the earliest substantive works on the Anthropology of AI.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'd also recommend looking at some of Diana Forsythe's work like "New Bottles, Old Wine," which while not directly about AI, have a lot of great perspectives about how ideologies become embedded and reproduced within intellegent systems.<br><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">-----------------------------<br>Matthew Bernius<br>mBernius@gMail.com<br></div></div></div>
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