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Error messages are only temporary events for an AI. It just | Error messages are only temporary events for an AI. It just takes some time to heal. | ||
'''Maaike, Mark-Jan, Eurico''' | '''Maaike, Mark-Jan, Eurico''' | ||
Revision as of 13:58, 8 September 2015
Wednesday 5 August 2015, 10:00-17:00
Workshop by Daniël van der Velden, Metahaven.
Example Firefox error message: 'Well, this is embarrassing.' Emotional? Technology has a way to talk to us when it's not working.
Kinds of error messages:
- Pop-ups
- Small Mac messages
- Error-message
- Access denied > tangible messages
Error message: technology saying something about itself not working "There is an increasing friendliness in error messages" "Crafted message"
Programmer leaving a 'trace' of himself with error messages. Use of emoji to compensate defaults > twitter replies NS Emoji as friendly agent that brings the bad message
Design error messages in a conceptual way. What is the psychology of an error message? How does the interface falls in love with us? (Film ‘Her' 2013 falling in love with an AI)
Groups Error messages
Selby, Anja, James
Card to James’ mother Facebook awkward situation. ‘Hot dish’ Postcard notification “Oops - You are receiving this card because of an issue that occurred on Facebook :(“
Flaminia, Vincent, Vicky
Designing an error message for an Artificial Intelligence Error messages are only temporary events for an AI. It just takes some time to heal.
Maaike, Mark-Jan, Eurico
Basil, Lucian, Michaela
Scott, Jona, Jurriaan
Storyboard ‘soap series’ from error messages. Future: speculative error messages: Error messages become more and more infantile and have a certain character to it. Brainstorm: Personalities: Mood, gender, insult, apologising, positive, negative, polite