1. Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Alone Together :
Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Book Trailer
Houston Baptist University
Spring 2014
EDUC 5306
Dr. Dawn Wilson
presented by
Dez Monique Johnson
Darcelle Lofton
Yolanda Plear
Lorena Hobdari

2. click the “video camera”to view this TED Talk by Sherry Turkle

3. Alone Together Summation
A wake-up call from a cyber-expert:
our use of technology
is fueling disturbing levels of
isolation, leaving us incapable
of distinguishing between true
human connection and digital
communication.

4. Are we too “connected” to our electronic devices?

5. ELIZA Eliza is a computer “therapist”. Turkle is concerned that people
want to confide in a machine with their deepest thoughts.
Is it ok to trust a machine with life decisions?

6. Robotic Pets Turkle uses a lot of children and elders as
test subjects. She discovers that the
more “life-like” a device is, the more
popular it is.

9. Growing up Tethered
There are infinite chances to type and retype and edit and undo before an or Instant Message is sent, each time possibly allowing the author to sound more confident or upfront than they actually are in real life. However, as stated in the chapter, this is only an illusion of privacy.

10. Life with Robots
The idea of being able to go inside the mind of a human to transfer feelings and program them at just the right timing into the robot’s responses, so that the human using the robot as a companion does not feel as though the relationship is one sided and cold. The robots created go from having just sounds that respond, to speech, to actual movements in their facial features and sometimes going as far as to develop personalities.

11. Are you a cyborg?
We are all cyborgs now as we are constantly connected through technology somewhere in our lives.

12. References
Images
tamagotchi].Retrieved April 26, 2014, from URL (amazon.com)
[lady with tamagotchis]. Retrieved April 26, 2014, from URL (huffingtonpost.com)
[girl with furbies]. Retrieved April 26, 2014, from URL (diytrade.com)
[purple furby]. Retrieved April 26, 2014, from URL (info.roosterbank.com)
[zhu-zhu pets] . Retrieved April 26, 2014, from URL (thepartyanimalblog.org)
[boy with AIBO pet]. Retrieved April 26, 2014, from URL (en.wikipedia.org)
[kids with AIBO pet]. Retrieved April 26, 2014, from URL (nbc.news.com)

13. References
Videos