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Character Computing

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Personalization plays an important role in human–computer interaction. A vast body of work has been directed into establishing research fields aiming to provide adaptive and personalized experience, e.g., Affective Computing and Adaptive Systems. However, current digital systems are largely blind to users’ character and traits. Systems that adapt to users’ character show great potential for augmenting character and for creating novel user experiences. This chapter presents possible indicators of users’ character from the HCI literature, discussing possibilities of recognizing and expressing character. Additionally, this chapter gives insights about potential application domains that might benefit from Character Computing as an emerging field. Lastly, this chapter discusses potential concerns, being as any fields, while Character Computing might open up interaction opportunities, it raises concerns from the various perspective from interaction concerns to privacy and ethical concerns.

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Acknowledgements

This work is inspired by the work done in the Usable Security and Privacy Institute in the Bundeswehr University, Munich.

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    Yomna Abdelrahman

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    Yomna Abdelrahman

  3. German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

    Slim Abdennadher

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Abdelrahman, Y. (2020). Character Computing and HCI. In: El Bolock, A., Abdelrahman, Y., Abdennadher, S. (eds) Character Computing. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15954-2_5

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