Digital touch for remote personal communication: An emergent sociotechnical imaginary

Jewitt, Carey; Mackley, Kerstin Leder; Price, Sara

doi:10.1177/1461444819894304

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“…Additional characteristics found to be important were synchronicity and symmetry. When looking at the data, the participants indicated that the message having a shared meaning was important corresponding to findings of Jewitt et al (2019). According to the participants' responses, this is something that can be more easily achieved with devices that operate symmetrically (i.e., with the same input and output).…”

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Exploring views on affective haptic devices in times of COVID-19

Askari

Huisman²,

Haans³

et al. 2022

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Affective haptic devices (AHDs) are communication technologies utilizing the sense of touch, and include mediated social touch (MST), symbolic haptic messaging, and awareness systems that, for example, let one feel another person's heartbeat. The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent social distancing measures have led to a reemphasis of the importance of social touch, and many people have experienced firsthand what it is like to miss touching loved ones. This offers an excellent opportunity to study people's intention to use AHDs. For this purpose, a survey study (n = 277) was conducted combining qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods. Touch deprivation, resulting from not being able to touch a loved one, was associated with intention to use AHDs: the more deprived an individual, the higher his or her intention to use AHDs. Technology readiness and touch aversion did not affect intention to use AHDs. AHDs for symbolic messaging gained higher interest than MST and awareness devices, and long-distance relationships were seen as the most likely scenario for using AHDs. Bi-directionality, synchronicity, and symmetry were regarded as important features for providing shared meaning and a sense of connectedness. Reviewability, multimodality, and actuation type were also deemed important. Limitations of the study and implications for the design of AHDs are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Exploring views on affective haptic devices in times of COVID-19

Askari

Huisman²,

Haans³

et al. 2022

Front. Comput. Sci.

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“…Historically and theoretically we have learned much about smell (e.g., Classen et al, 1994) and touch (e.g., Paterson, 2007). More recently, several innovative research teams (e.g., Jewitt et al, 2021;Verbeek and van Campen, 2013), are opening up smell and touch research with exciting multimodal experiments, pushing for more odorous and more tactile scholarship, including in teaching, documentation, and dissemination.…”

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Tangled, tangy, microbial threads: Textural methods for rendering past, present, and future sensory memories

Harris

2021

Multimodality & Society

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How to render sensory memory? In this article, I speculate on the possibilities of textural methods which attend closely to textile forms, specifically embroidery, as a way to explore this enduring question in multimodal research. To open up concerns about bodily relations between humans, as well as the more-than-human bodies we share worlds with, this article focuses on sensory memory fragments of encounters with the microbial conglomerations of sourdough bread starter. I offer three bubbling, sour-sweet texts: 1) an archived auto-ethnographic account of learning how to make a sourdough starter; 2) a social-media inspired piece on the sticky home archives of quarantine; and 3) a future speculative citizen science project. These fragments co-exist with microbes I have embroidered on ancient linens. From the tangy strings of sourdough histories, and the tangled threads in cloth I draw concrete methodological suggestions for new directions in textural research projects, such as material fieldnotes and crafted data. In doing so, I join other authors in this special issue in the call for multimodal forms of ethnographic storytelling about sensory memory, in this case one that attends not only to messy entanglements with bodies but also their textural, material, layered histories extending into the depth of their surfaces.

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“…In recent years, the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries gained intellectual traction, giving rise to several studies dedicated to the examination of technology-based innovations across countries and political regimes: energy production and remote sensing in the United States (Lawrence, 2020; Smith and Tidwell, 2016), smart cities and multinational corporations (Sadowski and Bendor, 2019) as well as digital touch and bioenergy (Jewitt et al, 2021; Levidow and Raman, 2020) in the United Kingdom, Internet in Russia (Keidiia, 2019), autonomous driving in Germany (Graf and Sonnberger, 2020), family farming in Argentina (Goulet, 2020) and food security in Sweden (Eriksson et al, 2020), just to mention some of the most recent endeavours.…”

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Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Vicente

Dias-Trindade

2021

Public Underst Sci

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In recent years, a Fourth Industrial Revolution emerged in public discourse as a narrative of exceptional societal disruption. At the core of this conceptual construct, led by the World Economic Forum, rests a sociotechnical imaginary of future essentialism, based on the revolutionary potential of digital, biological and physical innovations. This article addresses the lack of studies assessing the dynamics between the institutionalisation and the public performance of the Fourth Industrial Revolution concept through news media. We present the results of a quantitative content analysis of how the topic has been covered (frames, sources, tone) by the Portuguese national circulation press (2013–2020). This exploratory case study informs a proposal for an epistemic and methodological articulation between the theoretical frameworks of sociotechnical imaginaries and of media framing.

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Digital touch for remote personal communication: An emergent sociotechnical imaginary

Cited by 25 publications

References 40 publications

Exploring views on affective haptic devices in times of COVID-19

Exploring views on affective haptic devices in times of COVID-19

Tangled, tangy, microbial threads: Textural methods for rendering past, present, and future sensory memories

Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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