Between
object and
being.
Our research investigates the psychological, organizational, and social implications of interacting with humanlike technologies. These artificial persons – anthropomorphic robots, chatbots, digital avatars, and other social AI agents – are increasingly occupying a new ontological category in our collective consciousness, somewhere between inanimate objects and living beings.
RAP Lab · Artificial Persons
HRI research notes
My First EEG Pilot: From Gel to Graphs
A one-participant pilot to check that an OpenBCI EEG cap and a Biopac Senstream ring record valid data, and what the data showed. The setup I…
Start With the Question, Not the Scanner: Phase 1 of a NeuroIS Study
Most NeuroIS studies are won or lost before anyone puts on an EEG cap. The deciding moment is the first phase, when you choose the question.…
What Is NeuroIS? One Definition and Three Examples
When a new research field appears, one of the first things its founders need is a shared answer to a simple question: what is this field,…
Putting TAM in the Scanner: What Neuroscience Adds to Technology Acceptance Research
When a theory’s creator looks inside the brain Fred Davis did something unusual with his own most famous idea. In 1989 he introduced the Technology Acceptance…
Building Better Systems with the Brain in Mind: Neuroscience in Design Science Research
Neuroscience is not only for explaining behaviour Most talk about NeuroIS, the use of brain and body measurements in Information Systems (IS) research, is about explaining…
The NeuroIS Toolkit: A Beginner’s Guide to the Tools That Measure How People Experience Technology
By Chinonso Anyaehie · October 26, 2026 Why your survey is missing half the story Ask people why they adopted an app, and they will give…
How to Create a Furhat AI Creator Character
A complete, step-by-step guide, built from a real working session: creating a character of the author on a physical Furhat robot, from first login to a…
Furhat Setup & First Conversation
A step-by-step guide for a complete beginner: set up the physical Furhat robot and the Virtual Furhat, run your first Python scripts, and hold a real…
Furhat Setup & First Conversation
A step-by-step guide for a complete beginner: set up the physical Furhat robot and the Virtual Furhat, run your first Python scripts, and hold a real…
How to Record Body Signals Properly: A Practical Guide
Why a body sensor is not a lie detector A sensor gives you a number, and a number looks like proof. But a skin conductance reading…
Why Your EEG Keeps Railing, and How to Get a Perfect Connection
Ok, finally I documenting my first, second and third experience trying to use the EEG. It wasn’t a success but I learnt a lot and this…
PsychoPy Beginner Tutorial
Build a word recognition experiment step by step PsychoPy lets you present material to participants, collect their answers, and record response times. This tutorial walks you…
Designing Robots People Want to Interact With
What human robot interaction research teaches us about expectations, trust and today’s humanoids How does a pile of motors, sensors and plastic become something people want…
From Unboxing to Brainwaves: A Beginner’s Guide to the OpenBCI GUI
The OpenBCI GUI is a free program that connects to an OpenBCI board, such as the Cyton, the Cyton with Daisy, or the Ganglion, and turns…
How to Connect an EEG Cap to the OpenBCI Cyton + Daisy Boards
Introduction You need three kinds of connections to get brain signals from an EEG cap into the OpenBCI GUI: a ground, a reference, and one cable…
The OpenBCI Cyton + Daisy Kit: What Each Piece Does
Reference guide for the Neurophysiological Play demo The full kit If you are looking for a more elaborate guide, I have hosted it on my subdomain…
Human Robot Interaction (HRI) Research
I started HRIresearcher.com because of how hard it was for me to find information about the HRI field for my research. I tried using AI, but…
Before the First Participant: Building an EEG Research Toolkit from Scratch
A few weeks into my PhD in Information Systems at McMaster’s DeGroote School of Business, I’ve learned something that no methods textbook quite prepared me for:…