Chad Edwards
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3844201 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chad Edwards |
| PRENOMES | Chad |
| SOBRENOME | Edwards |
| ASSINATURA | EDWARDS C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1053-6349 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Social Robots and the Dialectics of Presence and Absence
Social robots function as embodied social media, structuring interaction by simultaneously acting as social agents and mediating technologies. This study examines how 103 young adult participants engaged with zoomorphic social robots in initial encounters, revealing dialectical tensions between presence and absence, connection and disconnection, and realism and artificiality. Drawing from relational dialectics theory (RDT) and semiotics, we frame…
How scientists study innovations on the background of a systematic review in an emerging field of research
This study investigates the interdisciplinary approach scientists took to study Amazon’s Alexa in the initial phase of its diffusion, based on a systematic review of research spanning six years (2017–2022). We examined the scope and diversity of the first authors and their methodological strategies across 180 selected studies from fields like communication, information science, health, and engineering. The findings reveal a robust interdisciplina…
Technological affordances, low-power AI, and climate justice among the Ogiek in Kenya’s Mau forest
In regions with unreliable electricity and limited Internet access, low- power AI tools offer scalable solutions for low-bandwidth environments. In Kenya’s Mau Forest, AI-generated SMS messages on low-power feature phones offer possibilities for advancing climate justice for Ogiek Indigenous people. Through interviews, focus group discussions, and direct observation, the study examined how low-power AI SMS systems can be integrated with Indigenou…
Making sense of the role of ChatGPT in education
This article investigates the diffusion and adoption of ChatGPT among college students from a multinational convenience sample, informed by the scholarly literature on the diffusion and progressive appropriation of ChatGPT by students and teachers within the education sector and the strategies adopted by academic institutions. We applied a figurational approach to this study, offering two theses that try to understand the societal meaning of Chat…
AI and human generation of classroom content
When it comes to controversial topics in higher education, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the spotlight lately. Discourse among faculty and students can be found in no shortage, but rarely is anyone focused on how it may impact how we perceive those who employ it rather than how it will change the system as we know it. This study examined adult learners’ perceptions of class instructors who incorporate AI-generated content within lectures…
The Perturbing Mediatization of Voice-based Virtual Assistants
This study examines the role of voice-based assistants (VBAs), specifically Alexa, in the mediatization paradigm framework. The authors hypothesize that emerging technologies such as chatbots and VBAs intensify the process of online meta-reintermediation of news. Three research questions were investigated through a questionnaire administered to 655 university students in the US and Italy: Do participants try to get news from Alexa? Are participan…
What HMC Teaches Us About Authenticity
This paper delves into what the application of authenticity to Human-Machine Communication (HMC) can teach us about authenticity and us as HMC researchers and as a com- munity. Inspired by the 2023 pre-conference “HMC: Authenticity in communicating with machines,” two central questions guide the discussion: How does HMC contribute to our understanding of authentic communication with machines? And how can the concept of authenticity contribute to …
Credibility and altered communication styles of AI graders in the classroom
When in doubt, lay it out
Do People Perceive Alexa as Gendered? A Cross-Cultural Study of People’s Perceptions, Expectations, and Desires of Alexa
Mainly, the scholarly debate on Alexa has focused on sexist/anti-woman gender representations in the everyday life of many families, on a cluster of themes such as privacy, insecurity, and trust, and on the world of education and health. This paper takes another stance and explores via online survey methodology how university student respondents in two countries (the United States, n = 333; and Italy, n = 322) perceive Alexa’s image and gender, w…
Human-Machine Communication Scholarship Trends
Despite a relatively short history, the modern-day study of communication has grown into multiple subfields. To better understand the relationship between Human-Machine Communication (HMC) research and traditional communication science, this study examines the published scholarship in 28 communication-specific journals from 2011–2021 focused on human-machine communication (HMC). Findings suggest limited prior emphasis of HMC research within the 2…
Is Alexa female, male, or neutral? A cross-national and cross-gender comparison of perceptions of Alexa's gender and status as a communicator
A Robot, Meteorologist, and Amateur Forecaster Walk into A Bar
The current study examines qualitative responses from participants about their opinions on a weather forecast delivered by a professional meteorologist, an amateur meteorologist, and a social robot standing in for a meteorologist. Through thematic analyses, this study identified that people evaluated each weather forecast agent’s performance based on two major criteria: message factors and messenger factors. Two themes emerged from the category o…
The influence of agent and message type on perceptions of social support in human-machine communication
In this study, we investigated the differences in perceived competence, credibility, and social presence within socially supportive interactions (emotional or instrumental) using human, AI, and social robot actors. We further differentiated our findings by actor and type of support and found that participants thought the human and social robot differed in terms of competence but did not rate them differently on impressions of support. Our finding…
Interpersonal impressions of a social robot versus human in the context of performance evaluations
Extending previous research on the Computers Are Social Actors paradigm and the human-to-human interaction script, this study examines the interpersonal impressions of a social robot evaluator versus a human evaluator in a performance evaluation context. A between-subjects experiment was conducted to measure participants’ impressions of the credibility, task and social attractiveness, and social presence of a social robot or a human evaluator of …
“They’re always wrong anyway”
Weather-related communication lends itself well to various styles of delivery and medium. Yet, new communication technologies have changed information consumption in this domain and created changes for broadcast media. Some new media platforms allow the participation of nonprofessional (amateur) agents, whereas others, such as social robotics or chatbots, allow for the removal of a human-element entirely. As these platforms further proliferate in…
Feeling for Our Robot Overlords
Human-to-human scripting accounts for a user’s tendency in human-robot interactions (HRI) to utilize scripts just as they would if talking to another person. Can a robot’s emotional verbal expression, however, impact perceptions and further elicit human-to-human scripting? The present study examines the effects of a robot’s emotional expression of joy and sorrow on participant perceptions of anthropomorphism, animacy, likability, perceived intell…
A Bot and a Smile
Artificially intelligent (AI) agents increasingly occupy roles once served by humans in computer-mediated communication (CMC). Technological affordances like emoji give interactants (humans or bots) the ability to partially overcome the limited nonverbal information in CMC. However, despite the growth of chatbots as conversational partners, few CMC and human-machine communication (HMC) studies have explored how bots’ use of emoji impact perceptio…
I-It, I-Thou, I-Robot
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more common and capable interaction partners (human-machine communication; HMC), understanding how people perceive and interact with them becomes increasingly important to study. This essay argues that one important avenue for this study is the application of relevant interpersonal and computer-mediated communication (CMC) theories. The paper suggests that these theories are relevant because the…
Presidential Spotlight
M. Chad McBride, immediate past president of the Central States Communication Association and Chad Edwards, past executive director share thoughts about helping navigate CSCA through troubling times whether it was the pandemic of 2020 or the dire situation the organization was in related to our nonprofit and organizational status. The aim of this address is that it might serve to help future leaders of CSCA through tough times and provide hope du…
The Social Pragmatics of Communication with Social Robots
I-It, I-Thou, I-Robot
Evaluations of an artificial intelligence instructor's voice
Initial expectations, interactions, and beyond with social robots
Social Presence on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a social networking site dedicated to making business connections for the purposes of building a professional network and sharing employment opportunities. Social networking sites (SNS) have allowed more content to be user-generated, making it increasingly difficult for users to assess credibility of information regarding source, message, and medium. Like other social media sites, LinkedIn provides information about a user that viewer…
Initial Interaction Expectations with Robots
As social robotics becomes more utilized and routine in everyday situations, individuals will be interacting with social robots in a variety of contexts. Centered on the use of human-to-human interaction scripts, the current study hypothesized that individuals would be more uncertain, have less liking and anticipate less social presence when they are told that they will be interacting with a social robot as opposed to another person. Additionally…
Initial expectations, interactions, and beyond with social robots
Computer-Mediated Word-of-Mouth Communication on RateMyProfessors.com
The purpose of this study was to experimentally test the influence of expectancies formed through computer-mediated word-of-mouth communication (WOM) on student learning. Increasingly, students rely on computer-mediated WOM through sites such as RateMyProfessors.com to aid in the process of information-gathering and course selection. It was hypothesized that students who received positive computer-mediated WOM about a course would demonstrate gre…
Computer-Mediated Word-of-Mouth Communication on RateMyProfessors.com
The purpose of this study was to experimentally test the influence of expectancies formed through computer-mediated word-of-mouth communication (WOM) on student learning. Increasingly, students rely on computer-mediated WOM through sites such as RateMyProfessors.com to aid in the process of information-gathering and course selection. It was hypothesized that students who received positive computer-mediated WOM about a course would demonstrate gre…
The Relationship between Students' Self-Reported Aggressive Communication and Motives to Communicate with Their Instructors
Using a convenience sample, 172 college students' (M age = 20.2 yr., SD = 2.5) motives for communicating with their instructors and their own verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness were studied using the Argumentativeness Scale, the Verbal Aggressiveness Scale, and the Student Motives to Communicate Scale. Significant negative relationships were obtained between students' self-reports of argumentativeness and the sycophantic motive and betwe…
Confirmation and Community The Relationships between Teacher Confirmation, Classroom Community, Student Motivation, and Learning
The purpose of this study is to examine sense of classroom community as a potential mediating variable in the model of teacher communicative behaviors (teacher confirmation) to the positive student outcomes of student motivation and affective learning. Two competing models were tested for model fit: the linear-sequential model and the partial-mediator model. Results indicated that while both models achieved adequate fit, the linear-sequential mod…
Is that a bot running the social media feed? Testing the differences in perceptions of communication quality for a human agent and a bot agent on Twitter
Welcoming Our Robot Overlords
Because robots and other electronic agents perform increasingly social functions, people will soon face the possibility of more frequent human–robot interactions. But what kinds of expectations do people bring with them into these potential interactions? Based on the possibility of a human-to-human interaction script, the current research hypothesized that people will be more uncertain about, anticipate less social attraction to, and expect less …
Social Presence on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a social networking site dedicated to making business connections for the purposes of building a professional network and sharing employment opportunities. Social networking sites (SNS) have allowed more content to be user-generated, making it increasingly difficult for users to assess credibility of information regarding source, message, and medium. Like other social media sites, LinkedIn provides information about a user that viewer…
Initial Interaction Expectations with Robots
As social robotics becomes more utilized and routine in everyday situations, individuals will be interacting with social robots in a variety of contexts. Centered on the use of human-to-human interaction scripts, the current study hypothesized that individuals would be more uncertain, have less liking and anticipate less social presence when they are told that they will be interacting with a social robot as opposed to another person. Additionally…
Initial expectations, interactions, and beyond with social robots
Evaluations of an artificial intelligence instructor's voice
A Bot and a Smile
Artificially intelligent (AI) agents increasingly occupy roles once served by humans in computer-mediated communication (CMC). Technological affordances like emoji give interactants (humans or bots) the ability to partially overcome the limited nonverbal information in CMC. However, despite the growth of chatbots as conversational partners, few CMC and human-machine communication (HMC) studies have explored how bots’ use of emoji impact perceptio…
I-It, I-Thou, I-Robot
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more common and capable interaction partners (human-machine communication; HMC), understanding how people perceive and interact with them becomes increasingly important to study. This essay argues that one important avenue for this study is the application of relevant interpersonal and computer-mediated communication (CMC) theories. The paper suggests that these theories are relevant because the…
Presidential Spotlight
M. Chad McBride, immediate past president of the Central States Communication Association and Chad Edwards, past executive director share thoughts about helping navigate CSCA through troubling times whether it was the pandemic of 2020 or the dire situation the organization was in related to our nonprofit and organizational status. The aim of this address is that it might serve to help future leaders of CSCA through tough times and provide hope du…
The Social Pragmatics of Communication with Social Robots
I-It, I-Thou, I-Robot
A Robot, Meteorologist, and Amateur Forecaster Walk into A Bar
The current study examines qualitative responses from participants about their opinions on a weather forecast delivered by a professional meteorologist, an amateur meteorologist, and a social robot standing in for a meteorologist. Through thematic analyses, this study identified that people evaluated each weather forecast agent’s performance based on two major criteria: message factors and messenger factors. Two themes emerged from the category o…
The influence of agent and message type on perceptions of social support in human-machine communication
In this study, we investigated the differences in perceived competence, credibility, and social presence within socially supportive interactions (emotional or instrumental) using human, AI, and social robot actors. We further differentiated our findings by actor and type of support and found that participants thought the human and social robot differed in terms of competence but did not rate them differently on impressions of support. Our finding…
Interpersonal impressions of a social robot versus human in the context of performance evaluations
Extending previous research on the Computers Are Social Actors paradigm and the human-to-human interaction script, this study examines the interpersonal impressions of a social robot evaluator versus a human evaluator in a performance evaluation context. A between-subjects experiment was conducted to measure participants’ impressions of the credibility, task and social attractiveness, and social presence of a social robot or a human evaluator of …
“They’re always wrong anyway”
Weather-related communication lends itself well to various styles of delivery and medium. Yet, new communication technologies have changed information consumption in this domain and created changes for broadcast media. Some new media platforms allow the participation of nonprofessional (amateur) agents, whereas others, such as social robotics or chatbots, allow for the removal of a human-element entirely. As these platforms further proliferate in…
Feeling for Our Robot Overlords
Human-to-human scripting accounts for a user’s tendency in human-robot interactions (HRI) to utilize scripts just as they would if talking to another person. Can a robot’s emotional verbal expression, however, impact perceptions and further elicit human-to-human scripting? The present study examines the effects of a robot’s emotional expression of joy and sorrow on participant perceptions of anthropomorphism, animacy, likability, perceived intell…
Do People Perceive Alexa as Gendered? A Cross-Cultural Study of People’s Perceptions, Expectations, and Desires of Alexa
Mainly, the scholarly debate on Alexa has focused on sexist/anti-woman gender representations in the everyday life of many families, on a cluster of themes such as privacy, insecurity, and trust, and on the world of education and health. This paper takes another stance and explores via online survey methodology how university student respondents in two countries (the United States, n = 333; and Italy, n = 322) perceive Alexa’s image and gender, w…
Human-Machine Communication Scholarship Trends
Despite a relatively short history, the modern-day study of communication has grown into multiple subfields. To better understand the relationship between Human-Machine Communication (HMC) research and traditional communication science, this study examines the published scholarship in 28 communication-specific journals from 2011–2021 focused on human-machine communication (HMC). Findings suggest limited prior emphasis of HMC research within the 2…
Is Alexa female, male, or neutral? A cross-national and cross-gender comparison of perceptions of Alexa's gender and status as a communicator
When in doubt, lay it out
The Perturbing Mediatization of Voice-based Virtual Assistants
This study examines the role of voice-based assistants (VBAs), specifically Alexa, in the mediatization paradigm framework. The authors hypothesize that emerging technologies such as chatbots and VBAs intensify the process of online meta-reintermediation of news. Three research questions were investigated through a questionnaire administered to 655 university students in the US and Italy: Do participants try to get news from Alexa? Are participan…
What HMC Teaches Us About Authenticity
This paper delves into what the application of authenticity to Human-Machine Communication (HMC) can teach us about authenticity and us as HMC researchers and as a com- munity. Inspired by the 2023 pre-conference “HMC: Authenticity in communicating with machines,” two central questions guide the discussion: How does HMC contribute to our understanding of authentic communication with machines? And how can the concept of authenticity contribute to …
Psychology (25 obras) · Computer Science (21 obras) · AI in Service Interactions (15 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Robot (12 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (11 obras) · Social Robot Interaction and HRI (11 obras) · Credibility (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Cognitive psychology (9 obras)