Anthropomorphic language

Animistic Concepts of Ions. From the literature, the animistic idea of ions, i.e. their personification, has been named as animistic misconception. This can be equated with the anthropomorphic language with which the wishes or preferences of ions are described. As an example, students state that electrons belong to certain atoms, or they formulate their statements regarding two atoms in such a way that an atom wants to form a bond, or an atom would like to receive an electron because it wishes to have a full outer shell. Taber continues with atoms - according to students - like to be stable, wish to be stable, prefer to be stable and indeed can be very eager to be stable [17]. Various scientists in relation to both ionic formation and ionic bonding [16,22,23], have also found such an animistic language used by students. 

We here give the reader a taste of the interesting anthropomorphic language used by early viscoelasticians and rheologists. 

You may notice that a lot of the language surrounding computer viruses sounds like language we use to discuss human illness. The moniker "virus" was given to these programs because a computer virus functions much like a human virus, and the term helped to anthropomorphize the computer a bit. Somehow, if people can think of a computer as getting "sick," it breaks down the computer phobia that many people have. 

HRI is the study of interactions between humans and robots. It is often referred as HRI by researchers. HRI is a multidisciplinary field with contributions from human-computer interaction, AI, robotics, natural language understanding, and social sciences. HRI is the means by which humans interact with robots. It typically refers to interaction with anthropomorphic robots, as opposed to UMSs which are considered by some as robots. HRI has been a topic of both science fiction and academic speculation even before any robots existed. Because HRI depends on knowledge of human communication, many aspects of HRI are continuations of human communications topics that are much older than robotics per se. 

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