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Mediating Intimacy: Designing Technologies to Support Strong-Tie Relationships
- in: Proceedings of CHI 2005, ACM Press, 2005
, 2005
"... Intimacy is a crucial element of domestic life, and many interactive technologies designed for other purposes have been appropriated for use within intimate relationships. However, there is a deficit in current understandings of how technologies are used within intimate relationships, and how to des ..."
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Intimacy is a crucial element of domestic life, and many interactive technologies designed for other purposes have been appropriated for use within intimate relationships. However, there is a deficit in current understandings of how technologies are used within intimate relationships, and how to design technologies to support intimate acts. In this paper we report on work that has addressed these deficits. We used cultural probes and contextual interviews and other ethnographically informed techniques to investigate how interactive technologies are used within intimate relationships. From this empirical work we generated a thematic understanding of intimacy and the use of interactional technologies to support intimate acts. We used this understanding to inform the design of intimate technologies. A selection of our design concepts is also presented. Author Keywords
Using Cultural Probes to Explore Mediated Intimacy
- Australian Journal of Information Systems
"... Intimacy is a crucial element of domestic life that has received insufficient attention from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers despite their rapidly growing interest in the design of interactive technologies for domestic use. Intimate acts differ from other activities, and there are unexp ..."
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Intimacy is a crucial element of domestic life that has received insufficient attention from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers despite their rapidly growing interest in the design of interactive technologies for domestic use. Intimate acts differ from other activities, and there are unexplored opportunities to develop interactive technologies to support these acts. This paper presents the first phase of a two-part study exploring the potential of interactive technologies to support intimate relationships. We contribute to this uncharted domain of HCI research a literature review of concepts useful in understanding intimacy and methods for its investigation. We conclude with preliminary results and suggestive design ideas for interactive technologies intended to support intimacy.
A Foundation for Emotional Expressivity
- In Proceedings of DUX 2005
, 2005
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Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Copyright © 2005 AIGA | The professional association for design. To express emotions to others in mobile text messaging in our view require designs that can both capture some of the ambiguity and subtleness that characterizes emotional interaction and keep the media specific qualities. Through the use of a body movement analysis and a dimensional model of emotion experiences, we arrived at a design for a mobile messaging service, eMoto. The service makes use of the sub-symbolic expressions; colors, shapes and animations, for expressing emotions in an open-ended way. Here we present the design process and a user study of those expressions, where the results show that the use of these sub-symbolic expressions can work as a foundation to use as a creative tool, but still allowing for the communication to be situated. The inspiration taken from body movements proved to be very useful as a design input. It was also reflected in the way our subjects described the expressions.
Hapticat: Exploration of Affective Touch
- in Proc. of 7th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '05
, 2005
"... This paper describes the Hapticat, a device we developed to study affect through touch. Though intentionally not highly zoomorphic, the device borrows behaviors from pets and the rich manner in which they haptically communicate with humans. The Hapticat has four degrees of freedom to express itself: ..."
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This paper describes the Hapticat, a device we developed to study affect through touch. Though intentionally not highly zoomorphic, the device borrows behaviors from pets and the rich manner in which they haptically communicate with humans. The Hapticat has four degrees of freedom to express itself: a pair of ear-like appendages, a breathing mechanism, a purring mechanism, and a warming element. Combinations of levels for these controls are used to define the five active haptic responses: playing dead, asleep, content, happy, and upset. In the paper we present the design considerations and implementation details of the device. We also detail a preliminary observational study where participants interacted with the Hapticat through touch. To compare the effects of haptic feedback, the device presented either active haptic renderings or none at all. Participants reported which of the five responses they believed the Hapticat rendered, as well as their degree of affect to the device. We observed that participants ’ expectations of the device’s response to various haptic stimuli correlated with our mappings. We also observed that participants were able to reasonably recognize three of the five response renderings, while having difficulty discriminating between happy and content states. Finally, we found that participants registered a broader range of affect when active haptic renderings were applied as compared to when none were presented.
Mediated intimacy in families: Understanding the relation between children and parents
- In Proceedings of International Conference for Interaction Design and Children
, 2006
"... Mediating intimacy between children and their parents is still limited investigated and at the same time, we find that, emerging technologies are about to change and affect the way we interact with each other. In this paper, we report from an empirical study where we investigated the social interact ..."
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Mediating intimacy between children and their parents is still limited investigated and at the same time, we find that, emerging technologies are about to change and affect the way we interact with each other. In this paper, we report from an empirical study where we investigated the social interaction phenomena that unfold between children and their parents. We used cultural probes and contextual interviews to investigate the intimate acts between children and parents in three families. Our findings show that the intimate act between children and parents share a number of similarities with other types of intimate relations such as strong-tie intimacy (couples cohabiting). However, we also identified several issues of intimacy unique to the special relation between children and their parents. These unique acts of intimacy propose challenges when designing technologies for mediated intimacy in families. Author Keywords Children, parents, cultural probes, mediated intimacy
Beyond talk, beyond sound: Emotional expression and the future of mobile connectivity
- Mobile Communication in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic View, Frank & Timme (2006
"... The chapters in this book are testament to the range of possibilities enabled by current communications technologies. Our own interest in this is reflected in ar-ticles and books that we have written that report on the use of various technolo-gies, whether it be SMS (Harper et al., 2005) or fully du ..."
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The chapters in this book are testament to the range of possibilities enabled by current communications technologies. Our own interest in this is reflected in ar-ticles and books that we have written that report on the use of various technolo-gies, whether it be SMS (Harper et al., 2005) or fully duplex mobile telephony (Brown et al., 2001). In this chapter, we want to take a different view: a view not on what communication technologies have done and do, but a view on what they might do when designed in novel ways. More particularly, in this chapter, we would like to explain why it is that, in the Socio-Digital Systems Group in Mi-crosoft Research in Cambridge, England, we have set up a programme of inquir-ies into what we are calling New Communications Genre. This is a long-term programme where we hope to invent and demonstrate the value of a variety of new ways of communicating, of expressing and being in touch. Background Why would we want to do this? After all, aren’t there too many communications channels already? Do we want to simply push more technologies on to people
Eroticism and the night: Sensual, rhythmic and risky design
"... Grendel attacks only after the fires go out; Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness explores darkness in the shadows of the jungle, darkness of skin, the unintelligibility of “uncivilized ” people, the darkness of the human soul when removed from all the familiar social structures that support it. ..."
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Grendel attacks only after the fires go out; Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness explores darkness in the shadows of the jungle, darkness of skin, the unintelligibility of “uncivilized ” people, the darkness of the human soul when removed from all the familiar social structures that support it. Women are told (as a form of social regulation) not to walk alone after dark, because who know what dodgy characters could be out there? “Dark ” is used synonymously with “evil ” sometimes, as in the phrase “dark magic.” Just as darkness renders the world less visible and less knowable, it renders us less graspable to the world as well. In contrast to films of the noir genre, Christopher Nolan’s 2002 remake of Insomnia reveals the main character’s guilt in the bright light of 24-hour daytime. The metaphor is powerful, yet also more than a metaphor. After seeing the movie, a friend who had spent some months in Antarctica described his own depression and paranoia, brought on by the constant day and lack of daily rhythms of light and dark. Other stories lurk behind the dominant stories of the darkness as fearful and unknown, stories in which the brightness of day can become unbearable, where the dark is comforting, where our own invisibility is freeing. The night impedes vision, but we have other senses. It’s the negative space around the workday, but we can reverse the figure and ground of that daily rhythm. It can be risky, but also provide opportunity. What would we design if, inspired by a positive consideration of the night, we designed for the sensuality of the dark, the
Designing Technologies for
, 2014
"... If you have ever used your phone while on a date to send a text message, or snapped a picture with a friend to upload to Facebook, or cut a sentence down to 140 characters to broadcast on Twitter, you may agree with some leading Social Scientists that technology is changing the way we relate with on ..."
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If you have ever used your phone while on a date to send a text message, or snapped a picture with a friend to upload to Facebook, or cut a sentence down to 140 characters to broadcast on Twitter, you may agree with some leading Social Scientists that technology is changing the way we relate with one another. Our interactions through technology seem to be getting increasingly short with less sophisticated language. More and more, our thoughts are broadcast to everyone instead of intended for someone special. Yet, there is something profoundly human and central to our development that is neglected in these interchanges. Close human relationships––with families, significant others, friends––need complex, intimate, ongoing conversations in order to create and maintain empathic connectivity. In these types of conversations, individuals become part of one another, defined by each other. Together, they change, they grow, they find meaning in life. This is, in essence, what I call Empathic Communication. Until now, this concern has been largely neglected in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, a community of researchers and technology designers who are arguably best
Probing the Potential of Non-Verbal Group Communication
, 2009
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Abstract Using Cultural Probes to Explore Mediated Intimacy
"... Intimacy is a crucial element of domestic life that has received insufficient attention from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers despite their rapidly growing interest in the design of interactive technologies for domestic use. Intimate acts differ from other activities, and there are unexp ..."
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Intimacy is a crucial element of domestic life that has received insufficient attention from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers despite their rapidly growing interest in the design of interactive technologies for domestic use. Intimate acts differ from other activities, and there are unexplored opportunities to develop interactive technologies to support these acts. This paper presents the first phase of a two-part study exploring the potential of interactive technologies to support intimate relationships. We contribute to this uncharted domain of HCI research a literature review of concepts useful in understanding intimacy and methods for its investigation. We conclude with preliminary results and suggestive design ideas for interactive technologies intended to support intimacy.
