Robot Personalities and Human Interaction

  Introduction: Luckily, there’s an obvious point of entry for the paper, the initial Genuine People Personality passage in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Your paper must begin with it. When writing about a text with a long name: After providing the full name of the text, you can switch to an abbreviation—“(hereafter, HHGTTG)” or “(hereafter, H2G2).” You can also go with Hitchhiker. Search online to see if there’s a common way to abbreviate the title you're working with. Your introduction needs to culminate in a thesis, which is, again, an arguable position. (Advancing an actual argument that someone could disagree with remains a problem in our class’s essays.) Your thesis needs to answer two questions: 1) How do Marvin’s and Wall-E’s personalities shape their interactions with humans? 2) How might books, such as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and movies, such as Wall-E, help condition audiences to expect personalities from machines? Conclude your introduction with an essay map, setting out the order of topics you will discuss in the paper. Background: Using at least two of the articles from your research, talk about the importance of a robot’s personality in human-robot interaction. If your research didn't turn up two useful articles, then, I'm sorry, but get back to searching. Primary Analysis: Now you tackle the first question in your thesis. Though Marvin and Wall-E may have very different personalities, how do their personalities facilitate their interactions with the human characters they encounter? It makes sense to separate your discussion of each character—say, a paragraph for each. Broader Application/Conclusion:If popular depictions show robots with personalities, and research suggests the importance of robots having personalities to help facilitate future human-robot interaction, then how might popular depictions of robots in books, movies, and other media help pave the way to a future of human-robot coexistence?