19.294 personification and anthropomorphism in software

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:57:41 +0100

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 294.
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         Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:34:55 +0100
         From: Wendell Piez <wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com>
         Subject: Re: 19.276 personification and anthropomorphism in software

Dear Willard,

You might want to take a look at Brenda Laurel's "Computers as
Theatre" (1991) as a useful anchor-point for the consideration of the
design of applications and interfaces as the fashioning of a
mise-en-scene for a "drama" with "players".

Cheers,
Wendell

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