Building a Stronger CASA: Extending the Computers Are Social Actors Paradigm

Blobulous: Computers As Social Actors

Public interaction experiences are becoming ubiquitous recently, however, interaction is usually limited to broadcasting and the actual experience not very rich. Especially social connectedness and bonding are important aspects of public interaction that are often overlooked. This paper reports on research investigating how a publicly displayed application can improve social connectedness by ac...

Wang Proceedings of the CASA – Computers as Social

A public information system with an Embodied Conversational Agent is evaluated in a laboratory setting concerning Social Actorship, Social Acceptance, perceived Control, Pragmatic Quality and Hedonic Qualities. Results show a positive experience for Pragmatic Quality and Control, but negative ratings for Social Acceptance. Differentiating these various aspects of User Experience has proven to b...

Disappearing Computers, Social Actors and Embodied Agents

Presently, there are user interfaces that allow multimodal interactions. Many existing research and prototype systems introduced embodied agents, assuming that they allow a more natural conversation or dialogue between user and computer. Here we will first take a look at how in general people react to computers. We will look at some of the theories, in particular the CASA (“Computers Are Social...

Identity Perception of Computers as Social Actors

Modules whose direct summands are FI-extending

‎A module $M$ is called FI-extending if every fully invariant submodule of $M$ is essential in a direct summand of $M$‎. ‎It is not known whether a direct summand of an FI-extending module is also FI-extending‎. ‎In this study‎, ‎it is given some answers to the question that under what conditions a direct summand of an FI-extending module is an FI-extending module?