Stanford CHIMe Lab

07/06/2011

07/06/2011

Looks like our social media research is needed more than ever! Zuckerberg confirms Facebook now has 750 million users http://tcrn.ch/p01wDq

We initially reported that Facebook had reached 750 million users, but today, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the social network had reached the milestone. Zuck added that sharing is growing at an

07/06/2011

video: Using robots to help victims of disaster | An interview with Clifford Nass http://j.mp/nVMgt3

Clifford Nass investigates how to make rescue robots more "user-friendly"

06/23/2011

The human brain has not evolved quickly enough to assimilate to twentieth-century technology.

06/23/2011

Interactions with computers, television & new media are identical to real social relationships & to the navigation of real physical spaces.

06/23/2011

People are "voice-activated": we respond to voice technologies as we respond to actual people & behave as we would in any social situation.

06/23/2011

Interactive voice technologies can readily & effectively tap into the automatic responses all speech--whether from human or machine--evokes.

06/23/2011

We will even do favors for technology that has been "nice" to us. All without even realizing it.

06/23/2011

We will "protect" a computer's feelings and feel flattered by a brown-nosing piece of software.

06/23/2011

Our brains can't fundamentally distinguish between interacting with people and interacting with devices.

06/23/2011

Misery loves company... but only if the company is miserable, too.

06/23/2011

Team-building exercises don't build teams - but the right T-shirt can.