Hello Dr. Burns,
I found the "Digital Apollo" article incredibly interesting. I was wondering what you thought about how the interaction of humans and machines has played into psychology research in the last few years. I've recently read countless studies where confederates in experiments are being replaced with digital avatars, or how reseach is being conducted online without experimenter interaction with their subjects, or how computers are being used to read ratio scales at a level of accuracy humans cannot achieve. There is clearly a need for computers in this work, but at what point do we switch from humans and machines interacting as they did in Apollo, to relying on computers too much to where we take the human component out of psychology? Thanks and I am looking forward to your visit,
Shannon Williams