Re: [IxDA Discuss] Anthropomorphic representation of service/system

[John Gilman]

It's easy to do this sort of thing badly.  Even done well its value
is generally transient.  That said, I think some good ideas can be
gleaned from Joshua Porter's slidedeck
http://bokardo.com/archives/designing-for-social-traction-slide-deck/
starting at slide 78.  Note, that Joshua is discussing the use of this
approach in the context of teaching new users how to use the system. 
As an ongoing interface the approach becomes annoying really fast,
even if you don't use an animated paperclip.  


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[IxDA Discuss] Anthropomorphic representation of service/system

[Anders Leander]

I'm currently working on a system which will filter information for
its users and was thinking an anthropomorphic representation of the
filtering AI might be a good idea to let the user relate to how it
all works.

Does anyone know of any good examples of this? The only use of it I
can think of is Clippy from Word...and that's not something you want
to bring up on your side of an argument. Although I think the idea was
basically a good one, it was just poorly executed.

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