Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Why Machines Should Fear (23 Dec 2003) Norman argues, moreover, that machines should not only evoke emotional responses in their owners but should also in some sense feel emotions themselves. Here he parts company with many of his colleagues in human-computer interaction. "I'm not saying that we should try to copy human emotions," Norman elaborates. "But machines should have emotions for the same reason that people do: to keep them safe, make them curious and help them to learn." Autonomous robots, from vacuum cleaners to Mars explorers, need to deal with unexpected problems that cannot be solved by hard-coded algorithms, he argues. Article URL: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?SID=mail&articleID=00007A46-F8C5-1FD3-B58083414B7F0000 Read 44 more articles from Don Norman sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: America's Online Pursuits: The changing picture of who's online and what they do This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy