Print Email Facebook Twitter Shift and Blend Title Shift and Blend: Understanding the hybrid character of computing artefacts on a tool-agent spectrum Author Rozendaal, M.C. (TU Delft Human Information Communication Design) van Beek, E. (TU Delft Applied Ergonomics and Design) Haselager, Pim (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Abbink, D.A. (TU Delft Human-Robot Interaction) Jonker, C.M. (TU Delft Interactive Intelligence) Date 2020 Abstract In the context of human-agent interaction, we see the emergence of computational artefacts that display hybridity because they can be experienced as tools and agents. In this paper we propose a tool-agent spectrum as an analytical lens that uses ‘intention’ as a central concept. This spectrum aims to clarify how a computational object can change from being conducive to the intentions of others (‘tool’) to appearing to have intentions of its own (‘agent’), or vice versa. We have applied this analytical lens to unravel people’s experiences in two hybrid cases; guide dogs as a living mobility aid for the visually impaired and an experimental wearable object named “BagSight” as a rudimentary artificialcounterpart. We compared both cases through the lens of a toolagent spectrum and elaborate on these results by discussing some of the principles by which computational artefacts can shift across the spectrum. We conclude by discussing the limitations of this study and provide suggestions for future work. Subject Hybridityinteraction designcomputational artefactstool-agent spectrumintention To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b84a37d4-0ee2-4a77-86b6-4ab0b4b6b031 DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3415066 Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York Embargo date 2021-05-31 ISBN 978-1-4503-8054-6 Source HAI 2020 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction Event International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (Virtual Event), 2020-11-10 → 2020-11-13, New York, NY, United States Series HAI 2020 -Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2020 M.C. Rozendaal, E. van Beek, Pim Haselager, D.A. Abbink, C.M. Jonker Files PDF Rozendaal_et_al._2020_Shi ... ectrum.pdf 939.56 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b84a37d4-0ee2-4a77-86b6-4ab0b4b6b031/datastream/OBJ/view