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People Feel Loyalty To Computers

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 25, 2004 @04:32AM from the cognitive-dissonance-overcompensation dept.

stoobthealien writes "According to BBC News researchers have discovered that people have loyalty to specific computers because of a tendancy to associate "human attributes to them" - and I thought it was just me that speaks to my PC...."

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But they're all supposed to be equal... by LostCluster · 2004-04-25 04:35 · Score: 5, Interesting

In a college computer lab, all of the terminals in a group are supposed to be identical and interchangable. However, it seems like users are building up a trust relationship with the computer they've used sucessfully before rather than wanting to take the chance with a computer they haven't met yet. It's almost as if users are presuming that most unfamiliar computers will fail on them...
Re:More Information Is Required by LostCluster · 2004-04-25 04:42 · Score: 5, Interesting

I'd also like to see what would happen if one night the computer room was rearraged quietly. Would people go looking for their "favorite" machine, or just use the one that had inherited the favorite's location?