Class for 08.04.23~25

Class for 08.04.23~25




This class's key point is that has implications for the aesthetic, ethics and evaluation of human-computer interaction. Second, history of HCI from a tools perspective. And conversational models of the interface: the intersection of AI and HCI . And also, question for today: what problem does Weizenbaum’s ELIZA system address or solve? And then, the answer of AI.
And, the answer of Ethnomethodology. Finally, People often interact with media technologies as though the technologies were people.
Here is related ideas. One is clifford and Nash, “the media equation” Two, Freud, transference
–see also Sherry Turkle on computers as “second selves” and as “evocative objects”
Three, surrealists, “automatic writing” (recall Tristan Tzara’s “recipe”)
Finally, Mannheim/Schutz/Garfinkel, the “documentary method”

If we view objects, technologies and natural phenomenon as if they do, in fact, have goals and intentions, then we will design like an artificial intelligence researcher.

On the other hand, if we view objects, technologies and natural phenomenon as if the just look like they have goals and intentions, then we will design like a tool builder for human “users” or “operators” of our tools.

And we talked about HCI.
History of HCI as tools: people, tools, funding. And then, we talked about where does HCI meet AI. Basic design question: should the computer act like a person? Answer is agents versus “direct manipulation” e.g., Ben Schneiderman versus Pattie Maes (sigchi, 1997)

Question for today is what problem does Weizenbaum’s ELIZA system address or solve?
The artificial intelligence answer: it does (or does not) behave like a human and is therefore successful (or not successful)
The ethnomethodology answer: it is taken to be a like a person in a conversation and thus simply works like most other technologies in a social situation.

And next, we talked about Johnstone’s “algorithm”

•If the last two answers were “No,” then answer “Yes.”
•Else, if more than 20 total answers, then answer “Yes.”
•Else, if the question ends in vowel, then answer “No.”
•Else, if question ends in “Y,” then answer “Maybe.”
•Else, answer “Yes.”

And we thought ethnomethodology.
Ethnomethodology differs from other sociological perspectives in one very important respect:
Ethnomethodologists assume that social order is illusory. They believe that social life merely appears to be orderly; in reality it is potentially chaotic. For them social order is constructed in the minds of social actors as society confronts the individual as a series of sense impressions and experiences which she or he must somehow organise into a coherent pattern.


*comments*

HCI is amazing~. Surprise~
I'am interested in Johnstone’s “algorithm” Very interesting.





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