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The Art of Creating Subjective Reality: An Analysis of Japanese Digital Pets.
- Source :
- Leonardo; 2001, Vol. 34 Issue 4, p299-302, 4p, 2 Black and White Photographs
- Publication Year :
- 2001
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Abstract
- A variety of digital pets can be found in Japan, from virtual pets on palm-top game screens to physical entertainment robots. They are success ful because they succeed in promoting a s ense of reality in users' minds. While visual reality is a familiar element of realism, a subjective sense of reality can also prove effective. By designing interaction in a mode that takes users' psychology into account, such a sense of reality can be enhanced, especially when a user perceives an independent personality in his/her digital pet. Japanese traditional culture, which allows treating animals on an equal basis with human beings, is behind this psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- VIRTUAL pets
ARTIFICIAL life
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0024094X
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Leonardo
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 5328854
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1162/00240940152549203