WIS5018

Human-Technology (Media) Interaction

Department of Interaction Science
Sungkyunkwan University
Fall Semester 2017
Young June Sah
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Name
Educational background
Research interests
Past research experience
Personal stuff
Course overview
Psychological, cognitive consequence of media technology use
Four domains of media technologies: Technologies as
Social agents
Manipulable interfaces
Environments
Communication channels
Social agents
Social agents
Social agents
Social agents
WK2: Computers-are-social-actors (CASA) paradigm
Social agents
WK3: Underlying mechanisms in CASA
Social agents
WK4: More issues in CASA research
Impact of anthropomorphic cues (Dehn & Van Mulken, 2000)
Uncanny valley (Gray & Wegner, 2012)
Course overview
Four domains of media technologies: Technologies as
Social agents
Manipulable interfaces
Environments
Communication channels
Manipulable interfaces
Manipulable interfaces
Manipulable interfaces
Manipulable interfaces
WK5: Direct manipulation
Manipulable interfaces
WK6: Affordance
Manipulable interfaces
WK7: Cognitive reformation
Selective attention
Habituation
Automatic responses to media technologies
Course overview
Four domains of media technologies: Technologies as
Social agents
Manipulable interfaces
Environments
Communication channels
Environments
Environments
Environments
WK8: Embodiment; homuncular flexibility
Environments
WK9: Avatar; self-perception and priming
Environments
WK10: Mind perception and mirror neuron
Course overview
Four domains of media technologies: Technologies as
Social agents
Manipulable interfaces
Environments
Communication channels
Communication channels
Communication channels
Communication channels
Communication channels
Communication channels
WK11: Cue-filtered-out, cue-filtered-in
Communication channels
WK12: Deindividuation on the Net
Communication channels
WK13: Network vs. membership in social media
Communication channels
WK14: Online behaviors
Course structure
Small talk on recent technologies (students presentation, 5 min)
1-1.5 hour lecture on mandatory readings
Break
Optional reading discussion (students presentation, 15 min)
Assignment and grading
Weekly reaction papers (20%), due by 9 AM every Thursday
Article presentations (15% + 15%), recommended to meet with me
before the presentation
Technology presentation (10%), slides submitted by 9 AM on your
presentation date.
Term paper (5% + 30% + 5% = 40%):
A two-page prospectus, due by Oct 26.
A final paper, due by Dec 12.
In-class presentation (< 15 min).