Ask Nisha Dharna Why People Hate Clippy

[Jerry]

Nisha Dharna's Undergraduate Research Academy Project was recently accepted to the 2003 Conference on Computer-Supported Social Interaction

The Paper is entitled "The Effects of Animated Characters with Human Traits on Interface Usability  and User’s Perception of Social Interactions"

Check out the paper, congratulate her, and ask her about it.

[Chris Swingler]

I was one of the unlucky people who got to be one of her guniea pigs... I wanted to throw the monitor against the wall.

But I got 20 points of extra credit out of it, so it's aaaaal good. :)

--Beanie