Touching the dematerialized

Campenhout, Lukas Desmond Elias Van; Frens, Joep; Hummels, Caroline; Standaert, Achiel; Peremans, Herbert

doi:10.1007/s00779-016-0907-y

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“…within the military or sex industry) that is ‘always on’, ‘hyper-attentive’ or ‘disciplined for tactile calls to attention, a body open to these calls to be productive at all times’ (Parisi and Farnham, 2019: 3). Alongside this focus on the temporalities of touch, the ongoing process of digital dematerialization is seen to have disengaged with and neglected the values of the physical world (bodies, artefacts and interactions) to reduce or remove touch from the communicational environment (Van Campenhout et al, 2016). Touch-based technological innovation has a significant history, and how touch technologies draw the body (often only the hand or forearm) into meaning-making, and question human–digital boundaries is a key point of critique (Parisi, 2018).…”

Section: Personal Relationships and Digital Touchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital touch for remote personal communication: An emergent sociotechnical imaginary

Jewitt

Mackley

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2019

New Media & Society

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This article makes legible emergent social imaginaries of digital touch for remote communication in personal relationships, with attention to digital touch interfaces. It draws on data from rapid prototyping research workshops with apprentice professionals embedded within digital communication. Touch is discussed with respect to four analytical themes: materiality, body, emplacement and temporality. We illustrate how participants’ past and present experiences and future visions of remote digital touch thread through these themes and weave together to form a hegemonic, emergent sociotechnical imaginary of digital touch. The article contributes to social debates within digital personal remote communication by foregrounding touch, the material and the sensorial. The article’s novel interdisciplinary framework (combining design-based rapid prototyping with a multimodal and multi-sensorial analysis within the frame of the sociotechnical imaginary) also contributes to methodology around future-facing phenomena, prior to the process of their solidification into material, political formations.

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Section: Personal Relationships and Digital Touchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital touch for remote personal communication: An emergent sociotechnical imaginary

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Mackley

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2019

New Media & Society

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“…On the one hand, materialities, including those of the body, are central to the take-up, subversion, disruption, and re-shaping of both touch and technological affordances. On the other, the ongoing process of digital dematerialization is seen to have disengaged with, and neglected the values of, the physical world (bodies, artefacts and interactions) to reduce or remove touch from the communicational environment (Van Campenhout et al 2016).…”

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Social Norms of Touch

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Mackley

et al. 2019

Human–Computer Interaction Series

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This chapter discusses social norms with attention to their significance for researching and designing digital touch communication in a global world, notably gendered and cultural touch norms. It explores how social and cultural norms shape the ways that people (and machines) touch. Touch norms are shaped, regulated and enforced through social, economic, familial and legal mechanisms, they organise our experiences and expectations. Understanding of the touch norms that people, including digital touch researchers and designers, bring to their interactions with others provides a route into understanding the sociality that shapes digital touch. We discuss the significance of these given the expectations of the user, their touch repertoires, and the social cultural role that norms play in the take up and use of mediated digital touch communication devices and systems and environments. The chapter concludes that reflexive engagement with touch norms can provide insights and inspiration for thinking about, researching and designing digital touch communication, and help to address how cultural and gendered norms of touch might be engaged with, to constrain and reproduce or open-up the meaning potentials of digital touch.

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“…This is the case with information carriers: music CDs [40], cash money [45], books, newspapers [48], maps and photographs [47]. On the other hand, function-specific digital products like pocket calculators, GPS devices, digital agendas, cameras, cell phones and alarm clocks disappear as well and become on-screen applications on smart phones and tablets [55]. We stated that dematerialization occurs when a physical object moves from the physical to the digital world.…”

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“…Our research centres on the question of how product design can do this. Starting from rich interaction [18], we established a design perspective, the third stand [55], that is intended to provide such guidance, and positioned it in the wider research area of embodied interaction [10]. In this paper, we further investigate the third stand.…”

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“…This means that the researcher, starting from his personal observations and reflections, seeks to "transform the world from its current state to a preferred state" [60]. The third stand is our preferred state, and, in previous papers [54,55], we defined its foundations through several design iterations. In this paper, we take this definition a step further.…”

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The enriching limitations of the physical world

Campenhout

Frens

Hummels

et al. 2018

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In this paper, we investigate the third stand, our perspective on embodied interaction with digital products and systems. First, we discuss its background of dematerialization, an ongoing evolution in which physical products and information carriers disappear, and become immaterial information packages and on-screen applications. We establish how dematerialization influences both design research and design practice. Next, we present a digital payment terminal that we designed in order to explore the added value of our third stand perspective. In an experiment, we compare it with an existing payment terminal. The results of the experiment reveal that the third stand terminal scores higher on hedonic values, like beauty and stimulation. The existing terminal scores higher on pragmatic values, like ease-of-use and efficiency. We position the third stand as a design approach that pleas for embodiment from a hedonic perspective, and propose to extend the argument for embodiment beyond pragmatic values. Finally, we suggest that the third stand celebrates the limitations of the physical world instead of trying to overcome them, and gives rise to specific emotional values like attentiveness, profundity and preciousness.

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Touching the dematerialized

Cited by 15 publications

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Digital touch for remote personal communication: An emergent sociotechnical imaginary

Digital touch for remote personal communication: An emergent sociotechnical imaginary

Social Norms of Touch

The enriching limitations of the physical world

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