Human Interaction With Nature and Technological Systems Lab
(The HINTS Lab)



A Nature Language [top]

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Severson, R. L., & Ruckert, J. H. (2009). The human relation with nature and technological nature. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 37-42.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Severson, R. L. (2008). Environmental education. In F. C. Power, R. J. Nuzzi, D. Narvaez, D. K. Lapsley, & T. C. Hunt (Eds.), Moral education: A handbook (Vol. 1, pp. 166-167). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2007). The child's enviromental amnesia – It's ours. Children, Youth and Environments, 17(2), 199-207.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2006). Nature and moral development. In M. Killen & J. G. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (pp. 461-480). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

  • Reprinted (2007) (abridged): Self & Society, 34, pp. 27-38.
  • reprinted (2006): New Therapist, 4, pp. 14-25.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2005). Encountering the other. Children, Youth, and Environments. 15(2), 392-397.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2005). Death in the hills. Children, Youth, and Environments, 15(1), 354-357.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Alexander, I. S., Freier, N. G., & Collett, S. L. (2005). The distant gardener: What conversations in the Telegarden reveal about human-telerobotic interaction. Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication(RO-MAN ’05) (pp. 13-18). Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Kellert, S. R. (2002). (Eds.) Children and nature: Psychological, sociocultural, and evolutionary investigations. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Kahn, P. H. Jr. (1997). Developmental psychology and the biophilia hypothesis: Children's affiliation with nature. Developmental Review, 17, 1-61.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (1994). Resolving environmental disputes: Litigation, mediation, and the courting of ethical community. Environmental Values, 3, 211-228.

HRI: Robot Pets [top]

Melson, G. F., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Beck, A. M., & Friedman, B. (in press). Robotic pets in human lives: Implications for the human-animal bond and for human relationships with personified technologies. Journal of Social Issues.

Melson, G. F., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Beck, A. M., Friedman, B., Roberts, T., Garrett, E., & Gill, B. T. (2009). Children's behavior toward and understanding of robotic and living dogs. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 30, 92-102.

Stanton, C. M., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Severson, R. L., Ruckert, J. H., & Gill, B. T. (2008). Robotic animals might aid in the social development of children with autism. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (pp. 271-278). New York, NY: ACM Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Perez-Granados, D. R., & Freier, N. G. (2006). Robotic pets in the lives of preschool children. Interaction Studies: Social Behavior and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 7, 405-436.

Melson, G. F., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Beck, A. M., Friedman, B., Roberts, T., & Garrett, E. (2005). Robots as dogs? – Children’s interactions with the robotic dog AIBO and a live Australian Shepherd. Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1649-1652). New York, NY: ACM Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2004). Review of G. Melson's "Why the Wild Things Are: Animals in the Lives of Children." Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 9, 45-46.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Perez-Granados, D. R., & Freier, N. G. (2004). Robotic pets in the lives of preschool children. Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1449-1452). New York, NY: ACM Press. [Includes video figure.]

Friedman, B., Kahn, P. H., Jr., and Hagman, J. (2003). Hardware companions?: What online AIBO discussion forums reveal about the human-robotic relationship. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 273 – 280). New York, NY: ACM Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Freier, N., & Severson, R. (2003). Coding manual for children’s interactions with AIBO, the robotic dog – The preschool study (UW CSE Technical Report 03-04-03). Seattle: University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Available online at: ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/tr/2003/04/UW-CSE-03-04-03.pdf

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., and Hagman, J. (2002). "I care about him as a pal": Conceptions of robotic pets in online AIBO discussion forums. Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 632-633). New York, NY: ACM Press.

HRI: Humanoid Robots [top]

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Freier, N. G., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Ruckert, J. H., Severson, R. L., et al. (2008). Design patterns for sociality in human-robot interaction. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (pp. 97-104). New York, NY: ACM Press.

Friedman, B., & Kahn, P. H., Jr. (in press). Human values, ethics, and design. In J. A. Jacko & A. Sears (Eds.), The Human-computer interaction handbook. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (Revised and updated chapter from the 2003 edition.)

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Ishiguro, H., Friedman, B., Kanda, T., Freier, N. G., Severson, R. L., & Miller, J. (2007). What is a human? – Toward psychological benchmarks in the field of human-robot interaction. Interaction Studies: Social Behavior and Communication in Biological and Artificial systems, 8(3), 363-390.

Kahn, P.H., Jr., & MacDorman, K. (2007) (Eds.). Special Issue on Psychological Benchmarks of Human-Robot Interaction. Interaction Studies: Social Behavior and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 8(3). (Includes an Introduction by MacDorman & Kahn.)

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Ishiguro, H., Friedman, B., Kanda, T. (2006). What is a human? – Toward psychological benchmarks in the field of human-robot interaction. Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication(RO-MAN ’06) (pp. 364-371). Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Freier, N. G., Friedman, B., Severson, R. L. & Feldman, E. (2004). Social and moral relationships with robotic others? Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN ’04) (pp. 545-550). Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Friedman, B., & Kahn, P. H., Jr. (1992). Human agency and responsible computing: Implications for computer system design. Journal of Systems Software, 17, 7-14.

  • To be reprinted in J. Weckert (Ed.), Computer Ethics. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
  • Reprinted (under the title "The Ethics of System Design") in M.D. Ermann & M.S. Shauf (2003) (Eds.), Computers, ethics, and society: Third Edition (pp.55-63).
  • Reprinted (under the title "People are Responsible, Computers are not") in M.D. Ermann & M.S. Shauf (1997) (Eds.), Computers, ethics, and society: Second Edition.
  • Reprinted in B. Friedman (Ed.), (1997), Human Values and the Design of Computer Technology (pp. 221-235). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Experiencing Nature Through a Plasma Window [top]

Friedman, B., Freier, N. G., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Lin, P., & Sodeman, R. (2008). Office window of the future? -- Field-based analyses of a new use of a large display. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 66(6), 452-465.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Gill, B. T., Hagman, J., Severson, R. L., Freier, N. G., et al. (2008). A plasma display window? – The shifting baseline problem in a technologically-mediated natural world. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28(2), 192-199.

Friedman, B., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Hagman, J., Severson, R. L., & Gill, B. (2006). The watcher and the watched: Social judgments about privacy in a public place. Human-Computer Interaction, 21, 235-272.

Friedman, B., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Hagman, J., & Severson, R. L. (2005). Coding manual for ‘The Watcher and The Watched: Social Judgments about Privacy in a Public Place,’ (UW Information School Technical Report IS-TR-2005-07-01). Seattle, WA: University of Washington, The Information School. Available online at: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/dspace/handle/1773/2074

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Severson, R. L., & Feldman, E. N. (2005). Creativity tasks and coding system – used in the plasma display window study (UW Information School Technical Report). Seattle: University of Washington, The Information School. Available online at: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/dspace/handle/1773/2050

Friedman, B., Freier, N. G., & Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2004). Office window of the future? – Two case studies of an augmented window. Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. 1559). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery Press.

Friedman, B., Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Hagman, J. (2004). The watcher and the watched: Social judgments about privacy in a public place. Online Proceedings (“Fringe” category) of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vienna, Austria: ACM CHI Place, 2004.

Environmental Moral Reasoning [top]

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Saunders, C. D., Severson, R. L., Myers, O. E., Jr., & Gill B.T. (2008). Moral and fearful affiliations with the animal world: Children's conceptions of bats. Anthrozoos, 21, 375-386.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2003). The development of environmental moral identity. In S. Clayton & S. Opotow (Eds.), Identity and the natural environment (pp. 113-134). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2002). Children's affiliations with nature: Structure, development, and the problem of environmental generational amnesia. In P. H. Kahn, Jr. & S. R. Kellert (Eds.), Children and nature: Psychological, sociocultural, and evolutionary investigations (pp. 93-116). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Lourenço, O. (2002). Water, air, fire, and earth – A developmental study in Portugal of environmental moral reasoning. Environment and Behavior, 34, 405-430.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (1999). The human relationship with nature: development and culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.*

Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Friedman, B. (1998). On nature and environmental education: Black parents speak from the inner city. Environmental Education Research, 4, 25-39.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (1997). Children's moral and ecological reasoning about the Prince William Sound oil spill. Developmental Psychology, 33, 1091-1096.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (1997). Bayous And jungle rivers: Cross-cultural perspectives on children's environmental moral reasoning. In H. Saltzstein (Ed.), Culture as a context for moral development: New perspectives on the particular and the universal (pp. 23-36). New Directions for Child Development (W. Damon, Series Editor). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Howe, D., Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Friedman, B. (1996). Along the Rio Negro: Brazilian children's environmental views and values. Developmental Psychology, 32, 979-987.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Friedman, B. (1995). Environmental views and values of children in an inner-city Black community. Child Development, 66, 1403-1417.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (1992). Children's obligatory and discretionary moral judgments. Child Development, 63, 416-430.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (1991). Bounding the controversies: Foundational issues in the study of moral development. Human Development, 34, 325-340.