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The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships
The Man Who Lied to His Laptop What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships
Author: Clifford Nass, Corina Yen
Lying to a laptop so we don't hurt its feelings; yelling at a GPS in frustration; feeling flattered by random praise from a computer-people act strangely around artificial intelligence. — Stranger still that how we act around computers is so similar to how we act towards other people, and that we can learn a lot about human interaction from how w...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781596594616
ISBN-10: 1596594616
Publication Date: 10/29/2010
Edition: Unabridged
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Publisher: Your Coach In A Box
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Basically, people interact with machines in ways that mirror the ways that they would interact with other people. I was hoping for a book about UI design, but this book is really a standard psychology book, only all of the experiments are performed using machines as the researchers' secret conspirator rather than using a human.
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