Affect: from information to interaction Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:466506, abstract = {While affective computing explicitly challenges the primacy of rationality in cognitivist accounts of human activity, at a deeper level it relies on and reproduces the same information-processing model of cognition. In affective computing, affect is often seen as another kind of information - discrete units or states internal to an individual that can be transmitted in a loss-free manner from people to computational systems and back. Drawing on cultural, social, and interactional critiques of cognition which have arisen in HCI, we introduce and explore an alternative model of emotion as interaction: dynamic, culturally mediated, and socially constructed and experienced. This model leads to new goals for the design and evaluation of affective systems - instead of sensing and transmitting emotion, systems should support human users in understanding, interpreting, and experiencing emotion in its full complexity and ambiguity.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Boehner, Kirsten and DePaula, Rog\'{e}rio and Dourish, Paul and Sengers, Phoebe}, booktitle = {CC '05: Proceedings of the 4th decennial conference on Critical computing}, citeulike-article-id = {466506}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1094570}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1094562.1094570}, comment = {Abstract: While affective computing explicitly challenges the primacy of rationality in cognitivist accounts of human activity, at a deeper level it relies on and reproduces the same information-processing model of cognition. In affective computing, affect is often seen as another kind of information - discrete units or states internal to an individual that can be transmitted in a loss-free manner from people to computational systems and back. Drawing on cultural, social, and interactional critiques of cognition which have arisen in HCI, we introduce and explore an alternative model of emotion as interaction: dynamic, culturally mediated, and socially constructed and experienced. This model leads to new goals for the design and evaluation of affective systems - instead of sensing and transmitting emotion, systems should support human users in understanding, interpreting, and experiencing emotion in its full complexity and ambiguity.}, doi = {10.1145/1094562.1094570}, isbn = {1-59593-203-8}, keywords = {affectivecomputing, design, emotion, methodology}, location = {Aarhus, Denmark}, pages = {59--68}, posted-at = {2006-01-16 22:52:30}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Affect: from information to interaction}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1094562.1094570}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:466506 L3 - citeulike-article-id:466506 N2 - While affective computing explicitly challenges the primacy of rationality in cognitivist accounts of human activity, at a deeper level it relies on and reproduces the same information-processing model of cognition. In affective computing, affect is often seen as another kind of information - discrete units or states internal to an individual that can be transmitted in a loss-free manner from people to computational systems and back. Drawing on cultural, social, and interactional critiques of cognition which have arisen in HCI, we introduce and explore an alternative model of emotion as interaction: dynamic, culturally mediated, and socially constructed and experienced. This model leads to new goals for the design and evaluation of affective systems - instead of sensing and transmitting emotion, systems should support human users in understanding, interpreting, and experiencing emotion in its full complexity and ambiguity. CY - Aarhus, Denmark SN - 1-59593-203-8 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 68 TI - Affect: from information to interaction PB - ACM T2 - CC '05: Proceedings of the 4th decennial conference on Critical computing SP - 59 KW - affectivecomputing KW - design KW - emotion KW - methodology N1 - Abstract: While affective computing explicitly challenges the primacy of rationality in cognitivist accounts of human activity, at a deeper level it relies on and reproduces the same information-processing model of cognition. In affective computing, affect is often seen as another kind of information - discrete units or states internal to an individual that can be transmitted in a loss-free manner from people to computational systems and back. Drawing on cultural, social, and interactional critiques of cognition which have arisen in HCI, we introduce and explore an alternative model of emotion as interaction: dynamic, culturally mediated, and socially constructed and experienced. This model leads to new goals for the design and evaluation of affective systems - instead of sensing and transmitting emotion, systems should support human users in understanding, interpreting, and experiencing emotion in its full complexity and ambiguity. AU - Boehner, Kirsten AU - DePaula, Rogério AU - Dourish, Paul AU - Sengers, Phoebe PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1094562.1094570 ER -