Steampunk, Survivalism and Sex Toys: An Exploration of How and Why HCI Studies Peripheral Practices

Tanenbaum, Theresa Jean; Tanenbaum, Karen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73374-6_2

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“…This interface-centered method is inspired by Human-Computer Interaction approach (Shneiderman et al 2017), Actor-Network Theory (ANT) (Law 1999;Latour 1999aLatour , 1999bLatour , 2005 and other approaches such as Assemblage Theory (DeLanda 2006(DeLanda , 2016, and complex thought (García 2006). In the last 15 years HCI has evolved and become increasingly social and interpretative, focusing beyond the traditional user-interface (see the discussion about the different "waves" in HCI research in Bagnara and Pozzi 2016;Bødker 2015;Harrison et al 2007;Tanenbaum and Tanenbaum 2018). In this context, more than a new "wave" in HCI research, the interface-centered approach proposes a double movement: on one side, moving towards expanding the aperture of the interface concept beyond digital tools, and on the other side, towards opening an intensive interdisciplinary dialogue that involves other research experiences and theoretical constructions.…”

Section: Interface Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Books, videos and platforms: Exploring the BookTube interface

Tomasena,

Scolari

2024

The Information Society

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The publishing market has gone through deep transformations in the last few years, and the emergence of new media actors like BookTubers has increased the complexity of this system. The article proposes understanding BookTuber practices based on an interface-centered approach that goes beyond the conventional studies of the "graphic user interface". In the framework employed in the article, the "interface" is considered to be the place where different actors relate to each other and the process between them are carried out. The article also presents a map of the BookTuber interface and its tensions. This interface-centered approach, a work-in-progress, could also be applied to other practices.

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Section: Interface Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Books, videos and platforms: Exploring the BookTube interface

Tomasena,

Scolari

2024

The Information Society

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“…Sound ofers an especially fruitful line of intimate inquiry, opening questions around bodily engagement with and through connected devices. Work by Gopinaath Kannabiran, Shaowen Bardzell, Elizabeth Goodman, and others has examined the development and marketing of sex toys [6,44,56], with particular attention to the dynamics of arousal, sexual desire, and data privacy mediated by sound-based networked sensors [34,55,110]. Technology historian David Serlin, for example, examines the Enby sex toy designed for queer and non-binary users, and people with physical impairments like rheumatoid arthritis [101].…”

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confidence: 99%

Sonic Technologies of a Queer Breakup

Kinnee

Rosner

Desjardins

2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Over the past decade, the growth of voice assistants has presented new challenges within domestic life. Prior research has shown that such technologies afect users unevenly or fail to account for some relationships and domesticities entirely. Our work investigates the under-examined topic of queerness at home. Drawing on the experience of queer breakup, we describe a design inquiry and a frst-person research approach exploring two concurrent relationships in separate households both using Alexa. We explore issues of temporality, glitch, and shared accountability. We also ask critical questions with audio experiments, including: How do voice assistants diferentiate between queer voices? How should we converse with voice assistants about queerness? And are voice assistants "queer enough"? We contribute a discussion of diference, inclusion, and queer cultures of adversarial use to highlight the limitations of both everyday and professional language for describing and analyzing the particulars of queerness and interaction design. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing; • Interaction design; • Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms;

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“…Another line of research that shares communalities with the ethno-design method is the investigation of 'peripheral practices', niche, unusual, marginalized and/or highly specialized communities of practice, which may result in implications for HCI outside of that community (Tanenbaum and Tanenbaum, 2018). Rosner and Taylor (2011), for instance, studied antiquarian book restoration practices not to make book binding better or more technologically augmented.…”

Section: Mimicry Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Search for Design Elements: A New Perspective for Employing Ethnography in Human-Computer Interaction Design Research

Rapp¹

2020

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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Design ethnography has been widely used in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to understand people's everyday behaviors, in order to build technologies capable of meeting users' needs. Building on top of the recent debate on ethnography within HCI, this article proposes to employ reflexivity and theoretical pluralism to ground a new way of using design ethnography in HCI, directly envisioning novel designs during the fieldwork. Inspired by design practices like biomimicry, I describe the figure of the ethno-designer, a digital design ethnographer who dives into 'successful' virtual environments in search for insightful design patterns, with the purpose of creating new designs in other, even distant, contexts. In this perspective, the fieldwork becomes an incessant source of inspiration for identifying effective 'design elements', understanding how they work and their 'experiential effects', and producing design implications to create novel technologies across multiple application domains.

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Steampunk, Survivalism and Sex Toys: An Exploration of How and Why HCI Studies Peripheral Practices

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

Books, videos and platforms: Exploring the BookTube interface

Books, videos and platforms: Exploring the BookTube interface

Sonic Technologies of a Queer Breakup

In Search for Design Elements: A New Perspective for Employing Ethnography in Human-Computer Interaction Design Research

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