id: 01973158
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an: 01973158
au: du Boulay, Benedict; Luckin, Rosemary
ti: The plausibility problem: An initial analysis.
so: Beynon, Meurig (ed.) et al., Cognitive technology: instruments of mind. 4th
    international conference, CT 2001, Coventry, GB, August 6-8, 2001.
    Proceedings. Berlin: Springer. Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2117, 289-300
    (2001).
py: 2001
pu: Berlin: Springer
la: EN
cc: I.2.0
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li: http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2117/21170289.htm
ab: Summary: Many interactive systems in everyday use carry out roles that are
    also performed ‒ or have previously been performed ‒ by human
    beings. Our expectations of how such systems will and, more
    importantly, should, behave is tempered both by our experience of how
    humans normally perform in those roles and by our experience and
    beliefs about what it is possible and reasonable for machines to do.
    So, an important factor underpinning the acceptability of such systems
    is the plausibility with which the role they are performing is viewed
    by their users. We identify three kinds of potential plausibility
    issue, depending on whether (i) the system is seen by its users to be a
    machine acting in its own right, or (ii) the machine is seen to be a
    proxy, either acting on behalf of a human or providing a channel of
    communication to a human, or (iii) the status of the machine is unclear
    between the first two cases.
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