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Research and Insights: Explicating Cues: A Typology for Understanding Emerging Media Technologies

People use cues every day, like social cues or nonverbal cues, to communicate. But how are these cues — relative to Siri, Alexa, social robots, or the myriad hybrid computer and artificial intelligence technologies — being developed? How would a self-driving car, for example, understand sarcasm and do they have a sense of humor?

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication Assistant Professor in Emerging Media Kun Xu explored the ways in which scholars are interpreting cues when they analyze innovations that use human-computer interaction (HCI) and human-machine communication (HMC).

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Posted: February 7, 2020
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