TY - GEN
T1 - Designing (for) desire
T2 - 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design, NordiCHI 2012
AU - Kannabiran, Gopinaath
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
AU - Bardzell, Jeffrey
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This work builds upon recent work investigating erotic life and HCI, taking seriously the influences of interaction de-sign on our sexual wellbeing. In the present work, we critically analyze the ways that system design choices and emergent social behavior constitute an erotic social media platform and its concomitant expressions of desire. The site is called I Just Made Love, and it is used to share people's "love making" experience with others. We draw from continental cultural theory to analyze how the system and its users form arrangements of agency, which in turn lead to particular configurations of performed sexual desire. Based on our analysis, we argue that technosexuality is not just about using technology to fulfill an existing desire, but rather that novel forms of sexual desire come into practice because of particular constellations of design choices and social behaviors.
AB - This work builds upon recent work investigating erotic life and HCI, taking seriously the influences of interaction de-sign on our sexual wellbeing. In the present work, we critically analyze the ways that system design choices and emergent social behavior constitute an erotic social media platform and its concomitant expressions of desire. The site is called I Just Made Love, and it is used to share people's "love making" experience with others. We draw from continental cultural theory to analyze how the system and its users form arrangements of agency, which in turn lead to particular configurations of performed sexual desire. Based on our analysis, we argue that technosexuality is not just about using technology to fulfill an existing desire, but rather that novel forms of sexual desire come into practice because of particular constellations of design choices and social behaviors.
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U2 - 10.1145/2399016.2399116
DO - 10.1145/2399016.2399116
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871552639
SN - 9781450314824
T3 - NordiCHI 2012: Making Sense Through Design - Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
SP - 655
EP - 664
BT - NordiCHI 2012
Y2 - 14 October 2012 through 17 October 2012
ER -