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Computing Bodies Gender Codes and Anthropomorphic Design at the Human-Computer Interface

:	Claude Draude
:	Computing Bodies Gender Codes and Anthropomorphic Design at the Human-Computer Interface
:	Springer VS
:	9783658186609
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:	CHF 57.00
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:	Medien, Kommunikation
:	English

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Claude Draude analyzes embodied software agents - interface solutions that are designed to talk back and give emotional feedback - from a gender and media studies perspective. She addresses technological and sociocultural concepts in their interplay of shifting the boundary between what is considered as human and what as machine. The author discusses the technological realization of specific personality models that define the design of embodied software agents - emotion and gaze models, in particular. Finally, she explores these models in their broader cultural context by relating them to the prominent topic of the Turing test and the notion of the Uncanny Valley.

Prof. Dr. Claude Draude is head of the department for Gender/Diversity in Informatics Systems (GeDIS) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering/Computing at the University of Kassel, Germany.

	Contents	6
	Figures	8
	Introduction	9
	A Personal Assistant	9
	Notes on Research Material and Approach	14
	1.The Interface	22
	1.1. Reconsidering the Interface	22
	1.2. Human-Computer Interface: Bridging the Gap – Establishing the Gap	28
	1.3. The Embodied Agent Interface	37
	1.3.1. Interface Metaphors	37
	1.3.2. New Functionality, New Look: The Embodied Agent Interface	40
	1.3.3. The Spark of Life	45
	2.Reflections	52
	2.1. Mirrors and Windows: Amplifying the Imaginary	52
	2.1.1. The Changing Role of the Screen	52
	2.1.2. Entering a Mathematical Wonderland	55
	2.2.	55
	2.2.	55
	73	55
	2.2.1. The Interface as a Place of Sign/Signal Mediating	75
	2.2.2. Principles of New Media Objects	82
	2.3. Between Science and Fiction	87
	2.3.1. Boundary Objects	87
	2.3.2. Narrations	93
	3.Realizing the Agent Interface	102
	3.1. The Return of the Body	102
	3.1.1. Addressing the Body	102
	3.1.2. Bodies in Action	111
	3.1.3. Agency: Embodiment and the Ability to Act	118
	3.1.4. The Gender Generator	125
	3.2. “Once more with feeling”: The Role of Emotions	131
	3.2.1. The Computer as Affective Device	131
	3.2.2. “The Agent that Walked Out of the Display…”	139
	3.2.3. The OCC Model of Emotion	145
	3.2.4. Alternative Approaches to Emotion	150
	3.3.	150
	3.3.	150
	159	150
	3.3.1. Beyond the Screen	159
	3.3.2. Gaze Behavior in Embodied Conversational Agents	166
	3.3.3. The Object Stares Back? Summing Up Thoughts on Gaze	173
	4. Passing as Human	180
	4.1. Uncanny Doppelgängers	180
	4.1.1. The Uncanny Valley	180
	4.1.2. Doubles	184
	4.2. Counting as Machine – Counting as Human: Rereading the Turing Test	187
	4.2.1. The Gender Imitation Game	187
	4.2.2. Ambiguous Positions at Peril: The Case of Olimpia and the Virtual Human	191
	Appendix	200
	Bibliography	202