Nathan G. Freier
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nathan G. Freier is involved.
Articles
2007 What is a Human? Toward psychological benchmarks in the field of human–robot interaction Psychological Benchmarks of Human–Robot Interaction, Kahn, Jr., Peter H. and Karl F. MacDorman (eds.), pp. 363–390 | Article
In this paper, we move toward offering psychological benchmarks to measure success in building increasingly humanlike robots. By psychological benchmarks we mean categories of interaction that capture conceptually fundamental aspects of human life, specified abstractly enough to resist their… read more
2006 Robotic pets in the lives of preschool children Interaction Studies 7:3, pp. 405–436 | Article
This study examined preschool children’s reasoning about and behavioral interactions with one of the most advanced robotic pets currently on the retail market, Sony’s robotic dog AIBO. Eighty children, equally divided between two age groups, 34–50 months and 58–74 months, participated in… read more

