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Computing the unexpected
— and Unpredicted — and Deceptive — and Interesting Reflections
Computing the unexpected
— and Unpredicted — and Deceptive — and Interesting Reflections
Computing the unexpected and Unpredicted and Deceptive and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Computing the unexpected and Unpredicted and Deceptive and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Computing the unexpected and Unpredicted and Deceptive and Interesting Reflections Fifty year prediction about home computers Computing the unexpected and Unpredicted and Deceptive and Interesting Reflections
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Computing the unexpected
— and Unpredicted — and Deceptive — and Interesting Reflections
Fifty year prediction about home computers Attributed to Popular Mechanics, 1954 On display at the Smithsonian, Washington, 2000
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Computing the unexpected
— and Unpredicted — and Deceptive — and Interesting Reflections
Fifty year prediction about home computers Attributed to Popular Mechanics, 1954 On display at the Smithsonian, Washington, 2000
A full-scale mock-up of a submarine control room
https://archive.org/details/PopularMechanics1954 https://www.hoax-slayer.net/1954-home-computer-hoax/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauxtography
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Computing the unexpected
— and Unpredicted — and Deceptive — and Interesting Reflections
Unexpected and surprisingly Deceptive
Macknik et al, 2011 Foster & Keane, 2015 Kuhn, 2019
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Computing the unexpected
— and Unpredicted — and Deceptive — and Interesting Reflections
Unexpected and surprisingly Deceptive
Ortony & Partridge, 1987 Tognazzini, 2010 Figure from: Smith, Dignum & Sonenberg, 2016
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Computing the unexpected
— and Unpredicted — and Deceptive — and Interesting Reflections
Unexpected and Interesting
Data mining for useful rules of the form A → B Many possible measures of interestingness
Figure from Kirchgessner, 2016 See also Kuo, Lonie, Pearce & Sonenberg, 2014
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Computing the unexpected
— and Unpredicted — and Deceptive — and Interesting Reflections
Unexpected and Interesting
Generating interesting behaviours of synthetic characters
Images from Lim & Reeves, 2010 Macedo et al, 2019
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Computing the unexpected
— and Unpredicted — and Deceptive — and Interesting Reflections
Reflections On Computing the Unexpected
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Computing the unexpected
— and Unpredicted — and Deceptive — and Interesting Reflections
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Kuhn (2019) Experiencing the Impossible. MIT Press, 292 pp Kuo, Lonie, Pearce & Sonenberg (2014) Mining Surprising Patterns and their Explanations in Clinical Data. Applied Artificial Intelligence 28, pp 111-138 Lim & Reeves (2010) Computer agents versus avatars. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 68, pp 57-68 Macedo et al (2019) A Contrast-Based Computational Model of Surprise and Its Applications. Topics in Cognitive Science 11, pp 88-102 Macknik, Martinez-Conde & Blakeslee (2011) Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions, 291 pp Ortony & Partridge (1987) Surprisingness and Expectation Failure: What’s the Difference? IJCAI, pp 106-108 Reisenzein et al (2017) The cognitive-evolutionary model of surprise: A review of the evidence. Topics in Cognitive Science 11, pp 50-74 Smith, Dignum & Sonenberg (2016) The Construction of Impossibility: A Logic-Based Analysis
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Tognazzini (1993) Principles, Techniques, and Ethics of Stage Magic and Their Application to Human Interface Design. INTERCHI 93 pp 355-362