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 HCI, product interaction, ubiquitous computing, haptic interaction, interactive installation, information visualization, immersive
experience, storytelling.
 Traveling, photography, stop-motion

An idea worth spreading

One World - One University

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Braille Phone, Float Weight, Interactive storytelling, Emotions and technology, Evaluation and Innovation, Observation and Life

Chungi, Road Trips, Fear of time, Jats

People don't know that I'm good at

I am so-bad-that-its-good at: Singing

I am good at being really lazy, sleeping and day dreaming.

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  A comment on Conversation: Should an interface have an emotional connect with a user?

  Jun 27 2011: Sorry for not answering the comments individually in the interest of taking the debate forward. But thanks everyone, specially Atilla, for the thoughts. Its really good to understand so many perspectives.
  
  The apprehensions, specially about artificial emotions, are the first thing that comes to mind. Its gross to visualize a machine with emotions.
  
  But, can there be some positives as well?
  
  To take an actual example in a parallel field. Are the Khan Academy tutorials much more fun just because they talk to users (children) in their language or more because they are not as cold as others in their methods. A certain level of warmth has changed the way children react to being taught online.
  
  Again, its all very contextual. But would it be "cool" to have a bit more "warm" interactions.. or we need to reject the idea altogether...
  
  To think of it in terms of logic, computers (/machines) are actually built on logic, and if emotions follow logic they become fake. And thats what makes us grossed out about emotional machines?

• A comment on Conversation: Should an interface have an emotional connect with a user?

  Jun 22 2011: Say we juxtapose human - machine interaction with a few others like possibly human - nature interaction, human - animals interaction, we get a few dissimilar categories that mainly covers the interactions we have (apart from human-human obviously).
  
  Not that we care about each and every random tree on a street, or a street dog, or possibly any other object... but we do get a sense of connect and a possible set of emotions when we have to interact with these entities. We might get angry, sad, happy or apathetic amongst a lot of other reactions, but theres a set of these emotions. And if these interactions happen repeatedly with a particular entity, it starts to become a relationship.
  
  Is it so in case of human - machine scenarios as well? The set of emotions are lesser in these scenarios, and hence the relationship is more transient. And hence the alienation creeps in?
  
  Questions about efficiency, contextual application and others are very well placed. But, the field itself seems to be so less explored that there's a lot of speculation in all thats being said, including my own posts as well.

• A reply on Conversation: Should an interface have an emotional connect with a user?

  Jun 22 2011: might not, in future: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDFellowsTalks#p/a/D1168357F41739A0/0/F2ZQU07UJXA