While traditionally researchers have focused on making robotics more user-friendly from a humanperspective, a new theory has begun to take shape in which the human makes decisions based on how arobot would. The following study examines the concept of technomorphism which is the attribution oftechnological features and characteristics to humans. Because there is very little empirical or theoreticalresearch performed in this area, researchers set out to formally define technomorphism as well as create ascale to measure a person’s propensity to use a technomorphic schema. The findings from this work shouldhelp fuel the desire of others in the field to think about the potential influences of technomorphism duringthe design and implementation of new devices as well as in how we technology may influence how weperceive each other.
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