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Abstract

Open Questions:

• optical character recognition / computer vision interface. (natural interface)
• optical mark reader (Scantron!)
• automated response / grading.
• are the results and the test stored in the same system? If so, that seems like a bit of a foregone conclusion.
• what does the user/viewer contribute? explore their own responses to questions while simultaneously learning the test, driving the computer
• engaging external circuits of meaning: sending tests into testing services. taking the SAT. hiring a therapist. getting an official diagnosis.
• exploring tests as cultural artifacts -- (for instance the 599 question MMPI)
  • implicit values
• physical form.
  • getting it off of the screen!
  • other modalities of response. sound? lights? motion? achievement certificates?

Timeline

• Approach essential conceptual concerns through practical experimentation.
  • closed/open systems?
  • Emergent behavior--does the system evolve towards something? Is it goal-driven? If so, what are the goals.
  • Alternately, is the system simply playing out closed possibilities. (Every Icon).
  • Documentary/emulative behavior--does it record some trace of the viewer's/user's actions? Do they shape the emerging personality?

References

• Autopoesis, autpoetic systems. second-order cybernetics. Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela.
• Kelly Dobson. Blendie. Machine Therapy. attachments between people and machines.
• Helicopter parents. parent warez. The Parent Bay (TPB).
• Tests:
  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
  • Beck Depression Inventory.
  • Beck Hopelessness Scale.
  • Weschsler Adult Intelligence Scale-revised. (WAIS R)
  • Weschsler Intelligence Scale for Children-revised. (WISC R)
• Tests in the News:
  • SAT question on Jersey Shore/Snooki.
  • Tiger Mother.