Reimagining the Avatar Dream: Modeling Social Identity in Digital Media

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作者
Harrell, D. Fox [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Lim, Chong-U [3 ]
机构
[1] MIT, Digital Media, Comparat Media Studies Program, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] MIT, Digital Media, Comp Sci & Artificial Intelligence Lab, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[3] MIT, Imaginat Computat & Express Lab, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1145/3098342
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
COMPUTER SCIENCE HAS long been intertwined with society's technological dreams. The dream of automated homes relates to ubiquitous computing, just as the dream of sentient machines relates to artificial intelligence (AI). Another of society's dreams could be called the "Avatar Dream," a culturally shared vision of a future in which, through the computer, people can become whomever or whatever we want to be. Our focus is not, however, on simply developing the technologies that can support the Avatar Dream. We instead argue for the need to reimagine the Avatar Dream where the potential social and cultural impacts
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页码:50 / 61
页数:12
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