[alife] Program: Agent abuse: The darker side of human computer interaction

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             CALL FOR PARTICIPATION & PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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“Abuse: the darker side of human-computer interaction”
An INTERACT 2005 Workshop
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Date: Monday, September 12 (Full day)
Location: Rome, Italy
Early registration deadline: 27 June 2005
Web-site: www.agentabuse.org

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further information available at www.agentabuse.org
or e-mail antonella.de-angeli at manchester.ac.uk


Preliminary program
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** Section 1: ABUSE in context: The power game **

Bernard Geoghegan "The code of computers: Military discourse in
computer and cultural theory"

Chris Atkinson "A Structurantion interpretation of a case study in
which an information technology is culturally rejected"

Massimo Zancanaro & Chiara Leonardi "A trouble shared is a trouble
halved: Disruptive and self-help patterns of usage for co-located
interfaces"

Antonella De Angeli & Rollo Carpenter "Stupid computer! Abuse & social
identities"


** coffee break **


** Section 2 - ABUSE & the cyberworld: Relationship of the virtual and
the real **

Alan Dix et al. “Dark Lancaster”

Mark Blythe & Mark Jones "There’s something about email: Technological
and cultural interventions in the problem of inadvertent or casual
rudeness in email"

Radana Divinova "Cybersex as a form of computer mediated communication”

Warren Blumenfeld “Cyberbulling: A New Variation on An Old Theme


**lunch **


** Section 3 - ABUSE & virtual agents: the unfriendly user **

Christoph Bartneck et al. “Robot Abuse – A Limitation of the Media Equation”

Tatsuya Nomura “Narratives and therapeutic conversational agents: Their
principle problems”

Sheryl Branham “Notes on developing strategies for handling customer abuse
of ECAs”

Peter Wallis “Robust Normative Systems: What happens when they fail?”


** coffee break **


** Discussion 1: “Negative emotions in HCI: role and coping strategies”
chaired by Nadia Berthouze & Antonella De Angeli


** Discussion 2: “Conclusion and research roadmap definition”
chaired by Sheryl Branham & Peter Wallis


** workshop dinner **