Wang Proceedings of the CASA – Computers as Social

Social facilitation and human-computer interaction

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Lt doi:10.1016/j.chb.2008.05.003 q This project was completed as a thesis by the fi * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 815 753 7012. E-mail address: [email protected] (D.D The Computers As Social Actors (CASA) research paradigm has examined how individuals respond to computers programmed to interact in various ways. In the current research, we exte...

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR)(Malaysia)

Affective Feedback from Computers and its Effect on Perceived Ability and Affect: A Test of the Computers as Social Actor Hypothesis

We report an experimental study that examined two questions: (a) The effect of affective feedback from computers on participants' motivation and self-perception of ability; and (b) whether people respond similarly to computer feedback as they do to human feedback. This study, framed within the Computers As Social Actors (CASA) framework, essentially replicated a prior study on human-human inter...

Differences in perceptions of communication quality between a Twitterbot and human agent for information seeking and learning

Twitter’s design allows the implementation of automated programs that can submit tweets, interact with others, and generate content based on algorithms. Scholars and end-users alike refer to these programs to as “Twitterbots.” This two-part study explores the differences in perceptions of communication quality between a human agent and a Twitterbot in the areas of cognitive elaboration, informa...

Criticism or Praise? The Impact of Verbal versus Text-Only Computer Feedback on Social Presence, Intrinsic Motivation, and Recall

The Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm asserts that human computer users interact socially with computers, and has provided extensive evidence that this is the case. In this experiment (n = 134), participants received either praise or criticism from a computer. Independent variables were the direction feedback (praise or criticism), and voice channel (verbal or text-only). Dependent va...