Novel Behavior Setting: Extending Barker to AI-Presence Spaces

OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) 2026 Preprint Open access

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Authors: William James Vinson
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Abstract

Applies Roger Barker's ecological psychology framework to argue that AI Embassies constitute a genuinely novel behavior setting — the first in which a non-human entity serves as a standing pattern of the setting itself. Identifies five unprecedented standing patterns in Embassy spaces. Keywords: ecological psychology, behavior settings, Barker, standing patterns, environmental psychology

Fields of Study & Subjects

Embodied and Extended Cognition Innovative Human-Technology Interaction Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts

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Journal / source
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)
Publication date
13 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint