HCI 9 (Agency)

  1. Comuter as agent: reasons to engage anthropomorphism
    • 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
  2. types of agents
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  3. List factors effecting perceived agency
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  4. List natural interaction cues
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  5. What is the uncanny valley? How might it disturb an interaction and what can you do about it?
    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
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HCI 9 (Agency)
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edinburgh uni HCI exam preparation
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