“The ‘Chinese Room’：Humans’ Emotional Projections Onto Machines” presented by Xie

• Aoyun Xie

• Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia

The misuse of concepts such as machine learning and artificial intelligence referring to characteristics of machines and systems impacts the ways we emotionally relate to these non-human entities. This paper presents the artist’s explorations in the design of a multimedia device — “The Chinse Room” (2023-2024) inviting the audience to meditate on the emotional projections and psychological relationships that arise between humans and non-human entities. The artist explores how these emotional projections often transcend the actual characteristics of the machines, emanating instead from the deep-seated expectations and human ego. Interacting with the device, the audience is influenced to think and feel deeply about the emotions that emerge from the human self during human-computer interaction, and ultimately revealing the complex nature of this symbiotic relationship.

• Machine Learning
• artificial intelligence
• Emotional Projections onto Machines
• deep-seated expectations and human ego
• human-computer interaction
• understanding room
• Human and Non-human Agents, and Ecologies of Place

• Short Paper