ICS 131: Social Analysis of Computerization Lecture 18: Social Relationships

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.

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?

Three Kinds of Relationships 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) 2 Human Machine

Human-Human Relationships Online communities Chat Talking about technology

My Research Group’s Encounter with Second Life

Health Benefits of Relationships Social Support Hutchworld –Asynchronous vs. Synchronous? –2D vs. 3D?

Human-Machine Relationships Can this be a “real” relationship, or is it unrequited? Does a human-machine relationship require artificial intelligence?

Reeves & Nass Politeness study

Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis Human level intelligence not for learning about objects, but for learning about social webs. Byrne & Whiten, 1988

From Real to Artificial Intelligence : Social Relationships :: AI : Synthetic Social Relationships

Machine Machine Relationships Multi-Agent Systems Multi-robot Systems

AlphaWolf Interactive Installation Exhibitions: –Beall Center –SIGGRAPH –GDC –Ars Electronica –ZKM Future Cinema

AlphaWolf Video Scientific American Frontiers Oct 22, 2002

AlphaWolf: Social Relationships Emotion, Perception, Learning Unique ID + emotional tag + confidence = Context-Specific Emotional Memory Create, Apply, Revise Tomlinson, 2002

Context Preservation Neighborhoods Social Relationships Stereotypes Cohen, Riolo & Axelrod, 1999

Stories, and what they suggest for computational systems…

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.

Today’s discussants are... …come on down front!

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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