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In the near future, our life will normally be surrounded with fairly complicated artifacts, enabled by the autonomous robot and brain–machine interface technologies. In this paper, we argue that what we call the responsibility flaw problem and the inappropriate use problem need to be overcome in order for us to benefit from complicated artifacts. In order to solve these problems, we propose an approach to endowing artifacts with an ability of socially communicating with other agents based on the artifact-as-a-half-mirror metaphor. The idea is to have future artifacts behave according to the hybrid intention composed of the owner’s intention and the social rules. We outline the approach and discuss its feasibility together with preliminary work.
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It should be noted that we are not claiming that computer users should be happy with the current operating systems. On the contrary, we claim that the operating systems need to be continuously improved, but the user needs to understand that computers are quite complex artifacts and the interface design is essentially a hard problem.
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Nishida, T., Nishida, R. Socializing artifacts as a half mirror of the mind. AI & Soc 21, 549–566 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-007-0107-4
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