Privacy-Openness Game in Virtual Life: The Game is a Premise for a Computer Supported Virtual Life

Author

Kim, Hee-Cheol

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Inje Univ. Gimhae, Gyeong-Nam, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

4-6 June 2012

Firstpage

173

Lastpage

174

Abstract

Computers are not merely data-processing devices. They are an unlimited vast world that enables virtual life. This paper maintains that humans are paradoxical beings who want private and secret life on one hand, and make their thoughts and actions public and open on the other hand. Coining the notion of the Privacy-Openness (PO) game that humans play, this paper reveals that such paradoxical desire is a crucial momentum for computer-supported virtual life, and that the PO game is an indispensible premise for virtual life. It also discusses the relationship between the PO game and freedom which is a major source from which virtual life begins.

Keywords

artificial life; computer games; data privacy; human computer interaction; virtual reality; PO game; computer supported virtual life; human computer interaction; paradoxical desire; privacy-openness game; Computers; Educational institutions; Games; Human computer interaction; Humans; Privacy; Psychology; freedom; human computer interaction; openness; privacy; virtual world;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer, Consumer and Control (IS3C), 2012 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taichung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0767-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IS3C.2012.52

Filename

6228275