@inproceedings{fraser-etal-2019-feel,
title = "How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on {T}witter before and after hitch{BOT}{'}s destruction",
author = "Fraser, Kathleen C. and
Zeller, Frauke and
Smith, David Harris and
Mohammad, Saif and
Rudzicz, Frank",
editor = "Balahur, Alexandra and
Klinger, Roman and
Hoste, Veronique and
Strapparava, Carlo and
De Clercq, Orphee",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis",
month = jun,
year = "2019",
address = "Minneapolis, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-1308",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-1308",
pages = "62--71",
abstract = "In 2014, a chatty but immobile robot called hitchBOT set out to hitchhike across Canada. It similarly made its way across Germany and the Netherlands, and had begun a trip across the USA when it was destroyed by vandals. In this work, we analyze the emotions and sentiments associated with words in tweets posted before and after hitchBOT{'}s destruction to answer two questions: Were there any differences in the emotions expressed across the different countries visited by hitchBOT? And how did the public react to the demise of hitchBOT? Our analyses indicate that while there were few cross-cultural differences in sentiment towards hitchBOT, there was a significant negative emotional reaction to its destruction, suggesting that people had formed an emotional connection with hitchBOT and perceived its destruction as morally wrong. We discuss potential implications of anthropomorphism and emotional attachment to robots from the perspective of robot ethics.",
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%A Fraser, Kathleen C.
%A Zeller, Frauke
%A Smith, David Harris
%A Mohammad, Saif
%A Rudzicz, Frank
%Y Balahur, Alexandra
%Y Klinger, Roman
%Y Hoste, Veronique
%Y Strapparava, Carlo
%Y De Clercq, Orphee
%S Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
%D 2019
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Minneapolis, USA
%F fraser-etal-2019-feel
%X In 2014, a chatty but immobile robot called hitchBOT set out to hitchhike across Canada. It similarly made its way across Germany and the Netherlands, and had begun a trip across the USA when it was destroyed by vandals. In this work, we analyze the emotions and sentiments associated with words in tweets posted before and after hitchBOT’s destruction to answer two questions: Were there any differences in the emotions expressed across the different countries visited by hitchBOT? And how did the public react to the demise of hitchBOT? Our analyses indicate that while there were few cross-cultural differences in sentiment towards hitchBOT, there was a significant negative emotional reaction to its destruction, suggesting that people had formed an emotional connection with hitchBOT and perceived its destruction as morally wrong. We discuss potential implications of anthropomorphism and emotional attachment to robots from the perspective of robot ethics.
%R 10.18653/v1/W19-1308
%U https://aclanthology.org/W19-1308
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-1308
%P 62-71
Markdown (Informal)
[How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT’s destruction](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1308) (Fraser et al., WASSA 2019)
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