Are We Becoming Super-Human Cyborgs? Examination of Technomorphism and the Creation of a Technomorphic Tendencies Scale

摘要

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