{"id":632,"date":"2015-02-19T04:22:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T04:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=632"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:07:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:07:33","slug":"assignment-1-fictional-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 1 – Fictional Character"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it came to conducting an experiment that required a fictional character to be the launch pad of your exercise, it took some research and role-playing in order to illustrate an illusion as if the character was real. The purpose of Exercise #3<\/a> was to interview a fictional character and design a way to project content online in which displayed the character\u2019s interests and personalities. Overall, it felt like putting on a small digital \u201cpuppet show\u201d for a virtual audience to see. The interviewer was the puppeteer where he or she incorporated information from an interview as if they it was the performance and a social network platform was the stage.<\/p>\n

Fred is an energetic science geek and comic book fanatic that studied at a university in the fictional city, San Fransokyo. From the interview, the various questions were categorized in a way to simply ask the interviewee a little information about himself. For example, \u201cWhat\u2019s your occupation?\u201d or \u201cDo you still go to school?\u201d These two questions are examples that helped keep the interview flowing smoothing.<\/p>\n

With the interview as a source of guidance, establishing at least one social network account could form a pathway for the character to become alive. In other words, the experimenter used his or her subject to interact with the world, in this case, the Internet. For example, Twitter would provide a smooth connection when using IFTTT recipes. The following recipes that were used to illustrate Fred were helpful to showcase his interests and personalities. Mainly his Twitter page dealt with online shopping for monster action figures and technology from Best Buy or eBay to news alerts or discussions about superheroes from reddit.<\/p>\n

In spite of concluding this experiment to be fun, there were several elements that taught others how significant it was when it came to developing \u201crobotic\u201d accounts in order to illustrate an illusion on how any form of artificial intelligent can magically use APIs; application programming interfaces. From Sherry Turkle\u2019s book, Alone Together<\/em>, in her introduction, she focused on the robotic movement of when, where, and how will human and robots interact with one another. Turke stated how \u201cRobots have become a twenty-first-century deus ex machina.\u201d (Turke, 9). If robots could be another \u201cgodly machine,\u201d social networks that connected with any devices; computers or smartphone, could be another AI too. It\u2019s like personifying a device with human qualities. Similar to how Turke reflected objects to have human qualities and the content to be treated as things. (10). For instance, the object was Fred\u2019s Twitter page and content were the incoming tweets with IFTTT recipes displaying his interests are things.<\/p>\n

Work Cited:<\/p>\n

Turke, Sherry. “Introduction.” In Alone Together. 1st ed. Basic Books, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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