1. One-minute papers
Big Points
Media interactions are influenced by human evolution
Humans are emotional beings, it is natural for us to express them in all our interactions.
Tradeoff between memory capacity and decay rate
Humans process information with complex, hard-wired cognitive apparatus

Questions
Are there ways to avoid media impact?
Do different media have different impacts (like different people)?
Are robots media or tools? (how do people interact with them?)
Do people in a group less likely to treat media as real life?
REJECT the implication that reactions (e.g., crying at a movie; yelling at a computer crash) imply we actually think the stimuli are real life.
What is relationship between media equation and the Turing test?
Can learning disabilities be considered glitches in the human processors?

2. MUDs and MOOs
Applications in education, collaborative work, entertainment
Can we develop library services, e.g., online reference in MOOs?

The ILNS180 MOO developed by Simon Mu and Rachelle Fuller
Demo the MOO, walk through the exercise
 How to access, connect, move, configure character
 How to enter your book annotation
 How to leave a note on the blackboard
Assignment

Next Tuesday: Meet in lab, work in MOO….half class reference librarians conduct reference interview, half clients.

Review syllabus:
Week of April 5: online in MOO Tue; speeches on Thur (Amy, Tiffany, Anh, Will)
Week of April 12: cyberspace; information design
Week of April 19: info design, ubiquitous comm
Week of April 26: Project Presentations

4.The one-minute paper
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?