Extrapersonal communication

Communication

Communication is:• the exchange of thoughts,

messages, or information; • a process whereby information

is channeled and imparted by a sender to a receiver via some medium. The receiver then decodes the message and gives the sender a feedback;

• a social interaction through messages.

The word ‘communication’ is derived from the Latin

verb communicare, which means "to share" or

"to make common"

Types of communicationThere are following types of communication:• Intra-personal Communication - talking to ourselves; • Interpersonal communication occurs between two people, and both parties act

simultaneously as a transmitting and as a receiving party;• Extrapersonal communication; • Group communication refers to communication between 3 or more individuals.

People belong to groups to satisfy needs that they cannot meet satisfy on their own. • Mass communication is the process by which a person, group of people, or large

organization creates a message and transmits it through some type of medium to a large, anonymous, heterogeneous audience.

Extrapersonal communication

Extra Personal Communication is that way of communication in which a human interacts with other species. Communication between human beings and non-human entities is extra personal communication. Types of extrapersonal communications: - Communication with animals;- Communication with plants;- Communication with machines/robots;

Communication with animals• In everyday life, we

communicate with animals, we train them and they react according to our instructions and commands. For example, house dogs, horses, cats and monkeys etc.

Communication with plants

• In everyday life, sometime we find some persons, who have the habit of talking at with plants. Certain plants react to our touch, for example, touch-me-not plant (mimosa pudica).

Human-Robot Communication

• Due to the technical progress there is new type of communication – human-robot communication.

• Modern technology has replaced many humans; robots are doing of the jobs which used to be done by humans.

• Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines. It is about designing machines that can think. Researchers also aim at introducing an emotional aspect into them.

Voice assistants

• Today, we know systems of artificial intelligence (voice assistant), such as Siri, Google and Cortana. They operate on the basis of principle: person the first asks a question, and then the voice assistant answers.

Now artificial intelligence can play computer games with you as the human player!

• Scientists at Carnegie University - Mellon Guillaume Lample and Devendra Singh Chaplot created a system of artificial intelligence and taught it to play video games, to play in the truest sense of the word. New artificial intelligence do not rely on a pre-defined ways and scripts, as it happens with all bots in games. They navigate in the virtual space, use the interface elements and controls, examine the levels and gameplay mechanics. If in the modern video game artificial intelligence is "inside" the game and fully programmed, then the newly created AI is "out" of the game and knows the inner workings of the game world as the human player.

Robot-secretary• Today there are robots-secretary that

greet guests, smile, shake hands.• In Nanyang technological University,

Singapore, robot Nadine works as a secretary. She recalls already came visitors and continue the conversation with them. Unlike many other robots, Nadine shows emotions and self; she's a humanoid and she looks very natural in statics, but the movement and expression makes you feel the difference.

Some difficulties of communication between people and robots

• Inflate expectations and subsequent disappointment. We want the robot to know everything.

• The second difficulty of communication between people and robots is that we want the robot was similar to us. People want robots to have an opinion about anything. We want the robot to experienced emotions (scary, happy, jealous). It should be noted that we would like to see a robot that does not just behaves as a person, but looks like human.

Conclusion

Extrapersonal communication is inevitable and, in some case, indispensable type of communication by which human can meet his needs. Of course, extrapersonal cannot fully satisfy our need in conversation. Usually we do not have satisfying feedback from this kind of communication. However, such kind of communication may help us in some life cases. For example, we can ask the dog to bring something for us, or we can receive the information that we need from some kind of robots. Thus, this type of communication can be relatively useful.

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