A work · 1996 ·

The device that was given a face

A keyring-sized screen with a creature on it that needed feeding, cleaning and attention, and a person who needed it to do the same.

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A title plate for The device that was given a face: the name, the year and a mark drawn from the entry. It is not a photograph.

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The strongest available case for the animate shelf, because the mind is unmistakably attributed to something that has none. The creature cannot want anything; every appearance of wanting is the rule set producing a state that looks like one. The attachment is nonetheless real and lasts, and the interesting question is not whether people know this but why knowing it does not help.

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1950 1950-1999 · 1996 1999

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needs-sourceObserved attachment and care behaviour toward the virtual pet, and its decline on discontinuation.Barsh, L., et al. (2006). Tamagotchi virtual pets. CHI '06: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 687-692.

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