Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Anthroponorphism and Anti-Anthroponorphism

Guadagno et al (2007)
Behaviorial realism: act and feel like being there
Agency: people think they are interacting with human when they are using computer

Nass & Moon (2000)
Anthropomorphism (拟人论)--assignment of human traits and characteristics to computers
  • Over-use of human social categories, eg. gender
  • Over-learned social behaviors, g. g. politeness
  • Premature cognitive development
  • Why?
  • --Computers use words for outpput
  • --Interactivity
  • --Filling traditionality human roles

Rejecting anthropomorphism

  • Computers are not objects, but peers in social interaction
  • People are unawere (and consciously reject) their social behavior towards computers
  • People respond similarly to computer as they do if a person was on the other side of the computer
  • Question to discuss: What characteristics of computers leads people to follow human-human social rules? Why?

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