Sociable Tabletop Companions at "Dinner Party"
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This paper describes the challenges and processes of developing a sociable interface and presents the implementation of one sociable interface, Dinner Party, in which a participant interacts with virtual creatures while dining alone. This paper explains how mundane objects can be sociable interfaces that interact with humans on a psychological level.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011