Julie Carpenter, Ph.D.

ORCID: 0000-0001-7519-6026 · Name appears as both J. Carpenter and J. Hillan.

Books

• Carpenter, J. (2025). The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze. London: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.
• Carpenter, J. (2016). Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

Book Chapters

• Carpenter, J. (2025). Asimov Cocktail. In Roboexotica: Beautiful Failure. Museumsquartier/Vienna, AT: edition mono/monochrom.
• Carpenter, J. (2023). Emotional Intimacy and the Idea of Cheating in Committed Human-Human Relationships With a Robot. In Gender in AI and robotics, pp. 77–92. Princeton, NJ: Springer.
• Carpenter, J. (2021). Robots As Solace and the Valence of Loneliness. In The Lovemakers. London: Goldsmiths Press.
• Carpenter, J. (2020). Kill Switch: The Evolution of Road Rage in An Increasingly AI Car Culture. In Living with Robots: Emerging Issues on the Psychological and Social Implications of Robotics. Part of DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-815367-3.00004-9. Amsterdam, NL: Elsevier.
• Carpenter, J. (2017). Deus Sex Machina: : Loving Robot Sex Workers and the Allure of an Insincere Kiss. In Robot Sex: Social, Legal and Ethical Implications. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Carpenter, J. (2013). Just Doesn't Look Right: Exploring the Impact of Humanoid Robot Integration Into Explosive Ordnance Disposal Teams. In R. Luppicini (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society, pp. 609-636. Hershey, PA: IGI Publishing.

Peer-reviewed journals

• Carpenter, J. (2026). Human–AI Relationships as Designed Relationality: A Sociotechnical Model. AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication.Queensland, AU: Springer Nature Journal. DOI: 10.1007/s00146-026-02908-y.
• Carpenter, J. et al. (2009). Gender Representation in Humanoid Robots for Domestic Use. International Journal of Social Robotics, 1(3), 261–265.
• Reichenbach, J., Bartneck, C., & Carpenter, J. (2008). The Carrot and the Stick: The Role of Praise and Punishment in Human–Robot Interaction. Interaction Studies, 9(2), 179–203.

Conference proceedings

• Carpenter, J. (2009). Why Send the Terminator To Do R2D2's job? Designing Androids As Rhetorical Phenomena. In Proceedings of HCI 2009. Cambridge, UK.
• Carpenter, J. et al. (2008). Invisible Machinery in Function, Not Form: User Expectations of a Domestic Humanoid Robot. In Proceedings of 6th Conference on Design and Emotion. Hong Kong, China.
• Reichenbach, J., Bartneck, C., & Carpenter, J. (2006). Well Done Robot! The Importance of Praise and Presence in Human–Robot Collaboration. Proceedings of the RO–MAN 2006, The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Hatfield, UK, pp. 86–90.

Nonacademic

• Carpenter, J. (2019, XXVI.6 November-December). Why Project Q is More Than the World's First Nonbinary Voice for Technology. In ACM Interactions, 56.
• Carpenter, J. (2016, May 23). Shaping the Future of War: The Important Questions. Review of two books: Christopher Coker's Future War; August Cole & P.W. Singer's Ghost Fleet.. LA Review of Books.
• Carpenter, J. (2014, December). The Existential Robot. In Issues, "Privacy and Surveillance," 108. Australia: Control Publishing. ISSN: 0819-8101.

• From Use to Attachment: AI as Social Systems (2026, May). In AI Symposium 2026. California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo, CA. [Keynote].
• Shared Agency: Insights From Human-Robot Interaction Research on Trust, Labor, and Accountability with AI. Global Network for Science and Diplomacy. (2025, November).
• Trust, Attachment, and Everyday Relationships with AI. Oregon State University: Corvallis, OR. (2025, October)
• Code, Command, and Consequences: Ethics in the Age of Autonomous Weapons. Santa Clara University: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. (2025, November)
• AI in Love. (2025, February). Policy Horizons Canada: Ottawa, Ontario.
• Humans + Robots: Dream Machines. TEDxEAL. Odense, Syddanmark: Denmark. (2016)
• Dark Patterns and the Ethics of Robot Design. UX Week: San Francisco. (2018). Hyatt Regency: San Francisco, CA.
• I, AI. (2021). Haus der Elektronischen Künste: Basel, Switzerland. [Keynote].

2× Lighthouse3 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics (2019, 2020)

For Project Q (with VICE-Copenhagen, VIRTUE-Worldwide, Copenhagen Pride, EqualAI):