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
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.