To Believe in Siri

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-126
Author(s):  
Simone Natale
Keyword(s):  
Illusion Of Control ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
Networked Computing ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Actual Control ◽  
The Web

AI voice assistants are based on software that enters into dialogue with users through speech in order to provide replies to the users’ queries or execute tasks such as sending emails, searching on the web, or turning on a lamp. Every assistant is represented as an individual character or persona (e.g., “Siri” or “Alexa”) that despite being nonhuman can be imagined and interacted with as such. Focusing on the cases of Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant, this chapter argues that voice assistants activate an ambivalent relationship with users, giving them the illusion of control in their interactions with the assistants while at the same time withdrawing them from actual control over the computing systems that lie behind these interfaces. The chapter illustrates how this is made possible at the interface level by mechanisms of projection that expect users to contribute to the construction of the assistant as a persona, and how this construction ultimately conceals the networked computing systems administered by the powerful corporations who developed these tools.

Grid Computing

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Ileana Dumitru
Keyword(s):  
Grid Computing ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Computing Technologies ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Web

To calculate the potential impact of grid on the enterprise, one just needs to look back a decade or so ago. Those who remember how LANs developed in company years before the Web was born can easily get a picture of how Grid Computing in corporations may change in the years to come. In the early days of the Internet, there was a strong opposition to linking computers together in a network. Ultimately, however, the Internet has become a ubiquitous tool, and many experts predict the same outcome for Grid Computing on the enterprise. There are still concerns to consider and obstacles to be overcome, but the momentum behind corporate Grid Computing is quickly gathering pace. The integration of Grid Computing technologies into enterprise computing systems can provide a much richer range of possibilities. This integration should provide enhanced capabilities and interoperability to meet current virtual organization demands.

Policy-based management of networked computing systems

2005 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Agrawal ◽  
Kang-Won Lee ◽  
J. Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Computing Systems ◽  
Policy Based Management ◽  
Networked Computing

Dog Ownership: A Complex Web?

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deena B. Case
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Effects ◽  
Comprehensive Model ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Pet Ownership ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Dog Ownership ◽  
Human Animal Bond ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The Web

Current interest in pets and their therapeutic effects has created a need for comprehensive model of pet ownership. Although Kling and Scacchi's (1982) web model was designed to explain organizational computing systems, it makes a useful metaphor for dog ownership. The web model considers the resource to be an ensemble of equipment, applications and techniques, with costs and benefits only partially identifiable. A complex infrastructure is necessary to support the resource. Both resource and infrastructure are social objects, highly charged with meaning. Points from the web model were compared with examples from human-animal bond literature and the author's experience.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF THE INTEGRATED INDICATOR OF BROWSER FINGERPRINTING IN THE PROBLEM OF ADAPTIVE AUTHENTICATION OF ACCESS SUBJECTS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.А. Саломатин ◽  
А.Ю. Исхаков
Keyword(s):  
User Authentication ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Web Space ◽  
The Web

В статье предлагается подход к аутентификации пользователя в веб-пространстве с помощью сравнения интегрированных показателей отпечатков браузера. Интегрированный показатель вычисляется дифференцированно в зависимости от класса защищаемой системы, имеющихся факторов аутентификации и аппаратных характеристик вычислительных систем, используемых субъектами доступа. Также в статье рассмотрены группы идентифицирующих пользователя статичных и поведенческих признаков, приведены параметры, рассчитываемые с помощью JavaScript библиотеки Fingerprint.js. Проведенный эксперимент подтвердил успешное применение предложенного подхода для нескольких наборов отпечатков браузера, полученных экспериментально. This article presents an approach to user authentication in the web space by comparing the integrated metrics of browser fingerprints. The integrated indicator is calculated differentially depending on the class of the protected system, the available authentication factors and the hardware characteristics of the computing systems used by the access subjects. The experiment carried out confirmed the successful application of the method for a specific practically obtained set of browser fingerprints.

Database in Computing Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 185-190
Author(s):  
W. Brett McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Digital Computer ◽  
Database Management ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Data Description ◽  
The Core ◽  
Big Ideas ◽  
The Common ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
The Web

“Big ideas” drive the disciplines. In biology, the insights of Darwin generated evolutionary theory. In chemistry, Mendeleev’s vision of the organization of elements predicted subsequent discoveries. In computing, the database and associated database management systems (DBMS) are one of the “big ideas”. The database was conceptually possible prior to the development of the computer, but it was the digital computer that made the database the common tool it is today. The core idea of the database is distinguishing between the data description and the data itself. Among other things, this idea makes the Web possible and has made manageable new fields for discovery, such as modeling the human genome.

Does Choice Cause an Illusion of Control?

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Joowon Klusowski ◽  
Deborah A. Small ◽  
Joseph P. Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Effects ◽  
Illusion Of Control ◽  
Actual Control

Previous research suggests that choice causes an illusion of control—that it makes people feel more likely to achieve preferable outcomes, even when they are selecting among options that are functionally identical (e.g., lottery tickets with an identical chance of winning). This research has been widely accepted as evidence that choice can have significant welfare effects, even when it confers no actual control. In this article, we report the results of 17 experiments that examined whether choice truly causes an illusion of control ( N = 10,825 online and laboratory participants). We found that choice rarely makes people feel more likely to achieve preferable outcomes—unless it makes the preferable outcomes actually more likely—and when it does, it is not because choice causes an illusion but because choice reflects some participants’ preexisting (illusory) beliefs that the functionally identical options are not identical. Overall, choice does not seem to cause an illusion of control.

Database in Computing Systems

2009 ◽  
pp. 205-211
Author(s):  
W. Brett McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Digital Computer ◽  
Database Management ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Data Description ◽  
The Core ◽  
Big Ideas ◽  
The Common ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
The Web

“Big ideas” drive the disciplines. In biology, the insights of Darwin generated evolutionary theory. In chemistry, Mendeleev’s vision of the organization of elements predicted subsequent discoveries. In computing, the database and associated database management systems (DBMS) are one of the “big ideas”. The database was conceptually possible prior to the development of the computer, but it was the digital computer that made the database the common tool it is today. The core idea of the database is distinguishing between the data description and the data itself. Among other things, this idea makes the Web possible and has made manageable new fields for discovery, such as modeling the human genome.

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