Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Full Blog: Media Equation

Discussion


Part 3 was also interesting as it discussed a computer’s perceived personality which was a novel idea to me. It was neat to read about how even a simple trait like dominance and submission could have such a profound impact on the user. As the researchers note, these findings also back the findings described in the other two papers about how people respond socially to a computer.
Part 1 was quite fun to read. In particular about how people would give intimate comments about computers.  I really enjoyed reading about the studies described and how weird we can sometimes be when presented in front of a computers.

I thought the paper in Part 2 was a good paper to read after the one in part 1.It went in further detail and explored the studies of part 1. Doing this validated what we read in the first part. In hindsight, it is simple to interact with a computer the way we do with people. However, some people can get carried away while interacting with their computers, and in that case I believe that person is exagerating.

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