Sherry Turkle

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sherry Turkle is involved.

Articles

Turkle, Sherry 2010 In good company? On the threshold of robotic Companions Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 3–10 | Article

Most contributors to this volume believe that only technical matters stand between where we are now and a time when robots will be our Companions and teachers. Robots need to expand their domains of understanding, and if those domains should be emotional, well, that will be a technical matter as… read more

Turkle, Sherry 2007 Authenticity in the age of digital companions Psychological Benchmarks of Human–Robot Interaction, Kahn, Jr., Peter H. and Karl F. MacDorman (eds.), pp. 501–517 | Article

The first generation of children to grow up with electronic toys and games saw computers as our “nearest neighbors.” They spoke of computers as rational machines and of people as emotional machines, a fragile formulation destined to be challenged. By the mid-1990s, computational creatures,… read more