Dr DUNN III Max Shaw
Postdoctoral Fellow
- FG325
- +852 3400 2058
- max-shaw.dunniii@polyu.edu.hk
ORCID IDResearch Overview
My research interests lie broadly within the fields of linguistics, human-AI interaction, and robots in healthcare. With robotic and AI technology progressing rapidly, people are increasingly interacting with AI and robots using human language, and this technology is increasingly making consequential impacts in sensitive fields such as healthcare. Currently I am examining how people perceive robots when making moral decisions in situations involving healthcare dilemmas, as well as examining how speech differs when directed towards robots/AI compared to humans.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- MA Psychology and Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh
- PhD Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Teaching Areas
- Statistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Research methods and design
- Natural language processing
- Programming for statistics
Research Interests
Research Output
- Cai, Z. G., Dunn, M. S., & Branigan. H. P. (acceptance in principle). How do speakers tailor lexical choices according to their interlocutor’s accent? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
- Dunn, M. S. & Cai, Z. G. (under review). Linguistic Alignment of Redundancy Usage in Human-Human and Human-Computer Interaction.
- Dunn, M. S. & Friginal, E. (in prep). Redundancy Alignment Increases L2 Output: Comparisons in Human-Human and Human-AI Interaction.
- Dunn, M. S., Cai, Z. G., Branigan, H. P., & Pickering, M. J. (in prep). Culture and language nativeness affect perspective taking in language production.
- Dunn, M. S. & Occhipinti, S. (in prep). Examining Uncanny Valley Effects in Patient Autonomy Dilemmas in Healthcare.
- Dunn, M. S. & Cai, Z. G. (2023). Word length affects language production in (non)predictive contexts but not language comprehension. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia.
- Dunn, M. S. & Cai, Z. G. (2023). Examining Linguistic Alignment in Higher-Order Structures. Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Conference.
- Dunn, M. S. & Diaz, M. (2023). Evaluating ChatGPT on linguistic knowledge of English. The 21st Asia TEFL International Conference.
- Dunn, M. S. & Cai, Z. G. (2023). Linguistic Alignment of Redundancy Usage and Language Instruction Applications. Okinawa Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching Summer Symposium.
- Dunn, M. S. & Cai, Z. G. (2022). Examining Pragmatic Behaviour and Alignment in Human Directed Versus Computer Directed Speech. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing.
- Dunn, M. S. & Cai, Z. G. (2022). Redundancy Usage Prompts Longer Utterances: Applications in Language Teaching. Okinawa Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching Summer Symposium.
- Dunn, M. S. & Cai, Z. G. (2022). Examining Maxim of Quantity Differences in Human Directed Versus Computer Directed Speech. 9th Experimental Pragmatics Conference.
- Dunn, M. S., Luo, Y. Z., & Cai, Z. G. (2022). Accent modulates lexical item selection and production. The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
- Dunn, M. S. & Cai, Z. G. (2022). Semantic Alignment in Human and Computer Speech: A Word Association Study. Psycholinguistics in Flanders.
- Luo, Y. Z., Dunn, M. S. & Cai, Z. G. (2021). The Syntactic Representation of Small Clauses: Evidence from Structural Priming. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing.
- Dunn, M. S., Cai, Z. G., Xu, Z., Branigan, H. P., & Pickering, M. J. (2021). Culture, collectivism, and second language use affect perspective taking in language production. The 34th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
- Dunn, M. S., Cai, Z. G., Xu, Z., Branigan, H. P., & Pickering, M. J. (2020). Perspective taking in language production in collectivist and individualist cultures. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing.
