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Exploring the Twilight Area Between Person and Product: Anthropomophism for Dummies

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dc.contributor.editorJanssens, Liisa
dc.creatorvan Mensvoort, Koert
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-18T15:14:00Z
dc.date.available2020-02-18T15:14:00Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractAnthropomorphobia is the fear of recognising human characteristics in non-human objects. The term is a hybrid of two Greek-derived words: Anthropomorphic means ‘of human form’ and phobia means ‘fear’. Perfume bottles shaped like beautiful ladies, the Senseo coffeemaker shaped – subtle, but nonetheless – like a serving butler, and, of course, there are the robots, mowing grass, vacuuming living rooms, and even caring for elderly people with dementia. Today more and more products are designed to exhibit anthropomorphic – that is, human – behaviour. At the same time, as a consequence of increasing technological capabilities, people are being increasingly radically cultivated and turned into products. This essay explores the blurring of the boundary between people and products. My ultimate argument will be that we can use our relationship with anthropomorphobia as a guiding principle in our future evolution.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/13402
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14324
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfisbn:9789462984493
dc.relation.isPartOfdoi:https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13454
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectanthropomorphismen
dc.subjecthumanoid robotsen
dc.subjecthuman enhancementen
dc.subjectemerging technologiesen
dc.subjectethicsen
dc.subject.ddcddc:004
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.titleExploring the Twilight Area Between Person and Product: Anthropomophism for Dummiesen
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:12:29
local.source.booktitleThe Art of Ethics in the Information Society
local.source.epage100
local.source.spage95

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