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Mar
5
2019

Jonathan Gratch

When: Tuesday, March 5, 2019
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT

Where: Swift Hall, 107, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Benjamin Dionysus   (847) 467-2035

Group: Cognitive Science Program

Category: Academic

Description:

The Media Equation revisited: Do we really treat computers like people?

Nass and Reeves argue that people respond to a computer as if they are interacting with another person. In this talk, I will illustrate that these effects are much weaker than widely supposed, and that the differences in how people treat machines is arguably more interesting that the similarities.

 

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