RE: [Air-l] Question about computer/Internet surveys/experiments in a class

Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves out of Stanford University do some interesting work on how humans will sometimes treat computers as people, or at least machines with a personality. Not sure if this is too far afield, but they have some interesting work out there, and some pretty neat experiments. Clifford Nass's bio page is at http://www.stanford.edu/~nass/