Interactive Art: Digital Entities and the Audience Experience

Giving computers the ability to communicate in a humanlike manner is a major area of research in robotics and artificial intelligence. Examples include humanoid robots, chatbots and embodied conversational agents that interact with humans using natural conversation. As human-computer interface designers strive to make computers more user-friendly, we are increasingly seeing the computer take on a humanlike personality in the form of digital entities and simulated virtual personas, offering new and seductive possibilities for encounters between humans and digital others.