ICS 131: Social Analysis of Computerization

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ICS 131 Social Analysis of Computerization

• Lecture 18
• Social Relationships

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Quiz 3

• Please write a multiple choice or short-answer
  question that relates to any of the topics of
  this class, and write an answer to your own
  question. You should spend about half the time
  writing the question, and half the time writing
  the answer.
• Note Selected questions may be included on the
  final exam.

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Key Idea

• Humans may form social relationships through
  computational systems. Can humans also form
  social relationships with computational
  systems? Can computational systems form social
  relationships with each other?

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Three Kinds of Relationships
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• 1) Machine-Machine
• (e.g., multi-robot systems)
• 2) Human-Machine
• (e.g., human-computer interaction)
• 3) Human-Human
• (e.g., computer-mediated communication
  technologies)

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Human
Human
Machine
Machine
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Human-Human Relationships

• Online communities
• Email
• Chat
• Talking about technology

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My Research Groups Encounter with Second Life
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Health Benefits of Relationships

• Social Support
• Hutchworld
• Asynchronous vs. Synchronous?
• 2D vs. 3D?

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Human-Machine Relationships

• Can this be a real relationship, or is it
  unrequited?
• Does a human-machine relationship require
  artificial intelligence?

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Reeves Nass

• Politeness study

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Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis

• Human level intelligence not for learning about
  objects, but for learning about social webs.
• Byrne Whiten, 1988

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From Real to Artificial

• Intelligence Social Relationships
• AI Synthetic Social Relationships

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Machine Machine Relationships

• Multi-Agent Systems
• Multi-robot Systems

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AlphaWolf

• Interactive Installation
• Exhibitions
• Beall Center
• SIGGRAPH
• GDC
• Ars Electronica
• ZKM Future Cinema

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AlphaWolf Video

• Scientific
• American
• Frontiers
• Oct 22, 2002

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AlphaWolfSocial Relationships

• Emotion, Perception, Learning
• Unique ID emotional tag confidence
• Context-Specific Emotional Memory
• Create, Apply, Revise
• Tomlinson, 2002

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Context Preservation

• Neighborhoods
• Social Relationships
• Stereotypes
• Cohen, Riolo Axelrod, 1999

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Stories, and what they suggest for computational
systems
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Topic for Discussion

• Tell a story about social relationships from your
  own life and describe what skills a computer
  would need to have in order to enact a similar
  scenario.
• Discuss with neighbors - 5 minutes.

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Todays discussants are...

• come on down front!

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Social Relationship

• A learned and remembered construct by which one
  entity keeps track of its interaction history
  with another entity, and which affects its
  current and future interactions with that entity.

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