HCI 9 (Agency)

• Humans are already expert at social interaction
• - Already know the ‘language’ -> effortless communication
• - Feel competent working in this domain, reduces anxiety

Can grab attention, seem more fun

• Provides emotional engagement
• -‘Affective’ computing

when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" refers to the dip in a graph of the comfort level of humans as a function of a robot's human likeness