Abstract

Objects have been playing a crucial role as a medium of people’s interpersonal relationships and communication for a long time. Though the nature and types of objects evolved over time, their natural association shows presence of a strong interaction between them. Human-object interaction is, however, not studied widely despite having much research on relationships between two individuals. Keeping that idea in mind, this study examines human-object interaction, an extension of parasocial interaction, for a robust understanding on how the interaction develops and progresses between a person and an object over time. Findings of the analysis include that frequent use of and visiting an object create a one-way interaction of users or visitors with that object, and the human-object parasocial interaction evolves in phases.