AI love it, AI hate it
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AI love it, AI hate it

Artificial Intelligence is about to become a commodity like electricity and internet. It will pervade our working and living environments, and reside in home equipment. It will be able to evolve in the local and personal context of the end user. Sufficiently advanced and locally evolved AI will develop behaviours that could be characterised with personality traits. It would be even better if AI designers would deliberately implement personality traits in their designs. This would enable people to relate to the AI in a more effective and more natural way. People project human-like personalities and emotions on animals and even dead objects anyway, so why not design for that? It would surely make the co-habitation of humans and computers more natural.

The impact of AI personality on human-technology relations is an innovation theme at Fontys ICT. Two examples are given. In HealthBots, the effect of tone of voice on the human-computer dialogue was studied. At the Dutch Design Week, FHICT presented De Dingen De Baas, an exploration of the interaction with smart objects with extreme characters. At first sight people hated it, but then some started wondering. Might they love it after all?

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Mark de Graaf Professor Fontys ICT
Mark de Graaf

About Mark

Mark de Graaf studied Physics at the Eindhoven University of technology and did a Ph.D. in plasma physics. After a two year post-doc in aerospatial research in Paris he made a career switch to (often ICT based) educational innovation. He became one of the founders of the educationally very innovative Industrial Design department at the TU/e. He specialized in the interaction of people with complex systems, and in playful interactions in human-computer interaction.

Currently he is professor Interaction Design at Fontys ICT. His research focuses on the relation between the homo sapiens that through evolution was optimally equipped to be a hunter-gatherer and the very complex high-tech environment man has shaped. With his research he aims to contribute to a more humane future in which humans and technology live together on a more equal foot.

He strongly believes in the integration of research and education.