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“It's the computer's fault”: reasoning about computers as moral agents

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
Conference companion on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Denver, Colorado, United States

Pages: 226 - 227

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-755-3

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Batya Friedman

Mathematics and Computer Science, Colby College, Waterville, ME

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Clifford Nass , Jonathan Steuer , Ellen R. Tauber, Computers are social actors, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: celebrating interdependence, p.72-78, April 24-28, 1994, Boston, Massachusetts, United States [doi>10.1145/191666.191703]
	2	Janet H. Walker , Lee Sproull , R. Subramani, Using a human face in an interface, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: celebrating interdependence, p.85-91, April 24-28, 1994, Boston, Massachusetts, United States [doi>10.1145/191666.191708]

CITED BY 8

	Peter H. Kahn, Jr. , Batya Friedman , Jennifer Hagman, "I care about him as a pal": conceptions of robotic pets in online AIBO discussion forums, CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 20-25, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
	Batya Friedman , Helen Nissenbaum, User autonomy: who should control what and when?, Conference companion on Human factors in computing systems: common ground, p.433, April 13-18, 1996, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
	Carson Reynolds , Rosalind Picard, Affective sensors, privacy, and ethical contracts, CHI '04 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria
	Batya Friedman , Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Human values, ethics, and design, The human-computer interaction handbook: fundamentals, evolving technologies and emerging applications, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, NJ, 2002
	Sonia Chiasson , Carl Gutwin, Testing the media equation with children, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 02-07, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA
	Batya Friedman , Peter H. Kahn, Jr. , Jennifer Hagman, Hardware companions?: what online AIBO discussion forums reveal about the human-robotic relationship, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 05-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
	Alexander Serenko, Are interface agents scapegoats? Attributions of responsibility in human-agent interaction, Interacting with Computers, v.19 n.2, p.293-303, March, 2007
	Nathan G. Freier , Elia J. Nelson , Amanda Rotondo , Wai Kay Kong, The moral accountability of a personified agent: young adults' conceptions, Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 04-09, 2009, Boston, MA, USA