Julie Carpenter, Ph.D.

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

Books

• Carpenter, J. (2024). The naked android: Synthetic socialness and the human gaze. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.
• Carpenter, J. (2016). Culture and human-robot interaction in militarized spaces: A war story. Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

Book Chapters

• Carpenter, J. (2025). Asimov Cocktail. In Roboexotica: Beautiful Failure. 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. Springer.
• Carpenter, J. (2021). Robots as solace and the valence of loneliness. Goldsmiths Press.
• Carpenter, J. (2020). Kill switch: The evolution of road rage in an increasingly AI car culture. In Living with robots. Elsevier.
• Carpenter, J. (2017). Deus Sex Machina. In Robot Sex: Social, Legal and Ethical Implications. MIT Press.
• Carpenter, J. (2013). Just doesn't look right. In Handbook of Research on Technoself. Information Science Publishing.

Peer-reviewed journals

• Carpenter, J. (2026). Human–AI relationships as designed relationality: A sociotechnical model. AI & Society.
• 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. Interaction Studies, 9(2), 179–203.

Conference proceedings

• Carpenter, J. (2009). Why send the Terminator to do R2D2's job? HCI 2009. Cambridge, UK.
• Carpenter, J. et al. (2008). Invisible machinery in function, not form. Design and Emotion. Hong Kong.
• Reichenbach, J., Bartneck, C., & Carpenter, J. (2006). Well done robot! RO-MAN 06, 86–90.

Nonacademic

• Carpenter, J. (2019). Why Project Q is more than the world's first nonbinary voice for technology. ACM Interactions.
• Carpenter, J. (2016). Shaping the future of war. LA Review of Books.
• Carpenter, J. (2014). The existential robot. Issues, 108.

• Shared agency: Insights from HRI research on trust, labor, and accountability with AI. Global Network for Science and Diplomacy. (Nov 2025)
• Trust, attachment, and everyday relationships with AI. Oregon State University. (Oct 2025)
• Code, Command, and Consequences: Ethics in the age of autonomous weapons. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. (Nov 2025)
• AI in Love. Policy Horizons Canada. (Feb 2025)
• Humans + Robots: Dream Machines. TEDxEAL, Odense, Denmark. (2016)
• Dark patterns and the ethics of robot design. UX Week, San Francisco. (2018)
• I, AI. [keynote] Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel. (2021)

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

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