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Isabel Pedersen

Publications and source records attributed to Isabel Pedersen.

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arXiv2025

Defining a classification system for augmentation technology in socio-technical terms

This short paper provides a means to classify augmentation technologies to reconceptualize them as sociotechnical, discursive and rhetorical phenomena, rather than only through technological classifications. It identifies a set of value systems that constitute augmentation technologies within discourses, namely, the intent to enhance, automate, and build efficiency. This short paper makes a contribution to digital literacy surrounding augmentation technology emergence, as well as the more specific area of AI literacy, which can help identify unintended consequences implied at the design stages of these technologies.

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arXiv2025

Design strategies for empathetic AI robots for older adults

Emulating empathy in human-robot interaction is a key component for achieving satisfying social, trustworthy, and ethical robot interaction with older people. Following comments from older adult study participants, the article uses humanities methods to identify a gap in defining empathetic robot care activities. It provides a design focus to mitigate it. Current human-robot designs, to a certain extent, neglect to include empathy as a theorized design pathway. Using one digital humanities research collection on humanoid robots, it contributes an empathetic care vocabulary as a design pathway for a productive underlying foundation for designing Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) that aim to support older people's goals of aging-in-place. Using rhetorical theory, this paper defines the socio-cultural expectations for convincing empathetic relationships.

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arXiv2025

Agency, Affordances, and Enculturation of Augmentation Technologies

Augmentation technologies are undergoing a process of enculturation due to many factors, one being the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), or what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) terms the AI wave or AI boom. Chapter 3 focuses critical attention on the hyped assumption that sophisticated, emergent, and embodied augmentation technologies will improve lives, literacy, cultures, arts, economies, and social contexts. The chapter begins by discussing the problem of ambiguity with AI terminology, which it aids with a description of the WIPO Categorization of AI Technologies Scheme. It then draws on media and communication studies to explore concepts such as agents, agency, power, and agentive relationships between humans and robots. The chapter focuses on the development of non-human agents in industry as a critical factor in the rise of augmentation technologies. It looks at how marketing communication enculturates future users to adopt and adapt to the technology. Scholars are charting the significant ways that people are drawn further into commercial digital landscapes, such as the Metaverse concept, in post-internet society. It concludes by examining recent claims concerning the Metaverse and augmented reality.

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arXiv2025

Generative AI Adoption in Postsecondary Education, AI Hype, and ChatGPT's Launch

The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into postsecondary education and many other sectors resulted in a global reckoning with this new technology. This paper contributes to the study of the multifaceted influence of generative AI, with a particular focus on OpenAI's ChatGPT within academic settings during the first six months after the release in three specific ways. First, it scrutinizes the rise of ChatGPT as a transformative event construed through a study of mainstream discourses exhibiting AI hype. Second, it discusses the perceived implications of generative AI for writing, teaching, and learning through the lens of critical discourse analysis and critical AI studies. Third, it encourages the necessity for best practices in the adoption of generative AI technologies in education.

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