[Air-l] suggestions?

[Christian Nelson]

Hi Denise:
I know what you're saying. But one of the interesting thing about 
Reeves and Nass's research, for me anyway, is that they show we will 
quite robustly personify even "dumb monitors"--things that are 
seemingly very un-human.
Cheers,
Christian

On Oct 3, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Denise N. Rall wrote:

> Well done, Christian!
>
> Hope to see you at an AoIR conference soon.
>
> It did occur to me (despite "talking too much") that
> the disease model functions more sufficiently when the
> device is perceived as human or human-like.
>
> Reeves, B. and C. Nass (1996). The media equation: How
> people treat computers, television, and new media like
> real people and places. Cambridge, MA, CLSI
> Publications, Cambridge University Press.
>
> I feel sure that Nass/Reeves has said something about
> this more recently.
> 	
> There was some research on telephone addiction but now
> I can't find it. Here's one on television:
> Sundar, L. and S. Sundar (2002). "Television addiction
> - is no mere metaphor." Scientific American February.
>
> refers to paper:
> Lang, A. (2000). "The limited capacity model of
> mediated message processing." Journal of Communication
> 50(1): 46-70.
> 	
> Cheers, Denise
>
>
> 	
>
> Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis submitted, School of Environ. Science,
> Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA
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