IUPUI Informatics professor co-authors highly cited research paper
June 27, 2008
Karl F. MacDorman, associate professor, Human Computer Interaction program, and his longtime research collaborator, Hiroshi Ishiguro, professor, Osaka University, Japan, have co-authored a paper that’s garnering considerable interest in the research community.
“The Uncanny Advantage of Using Androids in Cognitive and Social Science Research” is featured on the Web site ScienceWatch.com as a “fast breaking paper”. The paper received the highest increase in citations in the social science area among the top 1% of papers cited, according to Thomson Reuters.
An interview with the authors is available at the ScienceWatch Web site. The paper is available for download here.
Additionally, Prof. MacDorman's research into androids and how humans respond to them is featured on the blog of one of the Web's true star bloggers. Andrew Sullivan writes for The Atlantic, and was one of the early mainstream media types to embrace blogging. He has posted an interview/presentation featuring Karl, entitled "Why Androids Are Creepy". You can watch it here.
