TY - GEN
T1 - The lonely raccoon at the ball
T2 - 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014
AU - Bardzell, Jeffrey
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
AU - Zhang, Guo
AU - Pace, Tyler
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Designing for sociable systems requires, among other abilities, a sensitivity to the meanings, structures, and nuances of technology-mediated experiences that are simultaneously felt by users to be intimate and also social. Such a sensitivity is not easily acquired, and design researchers have recommended the use of social theories to guide designers' readings of technology-mediated social experiences. We use philosopher Michel Foucault's theory of identity (and social power, discourse, sexuality, creativity, and style) known as "the care of the self," as a scaffold with which to produce a sensitive interpretation of the intimacy (and expert social creative) practices of adult users of the virtual world Second Life (SL). This reading sheds light on several skilled and creative intimacy practices in SL. It also offers a philosophically grounded hermeneutic strategy for designers interested in analyzing intimate experiences.
AB - Designing for sociable systems requires, among other abilities, a sensitivity to the meanings, structures, and nuances of technology-mediated experiences that are simultaneously felt by users to be intimate and also social. Such a sensitivity is not easily acquired, and design researchers have recommended the use of social theories to guide designers' readings of technology-mediated social experiences. We use philosopher Michel Foucault's theory of identity (and social power, discourse, sexuality, creativity, and style) known as "the care of the self," as a scaffold with which to produce a sensitive interpretation of the intimacy (and expert social creative) practices of adult users of the virtual world Second Life (SL). This reading sheds light on several skilled and creative intimacy practices in SL. It also offers a philosophically grounded hermeneutic strategy for designers interested in analyzing intimate experiences.
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U2 - 10.1145/2556288.2557127
DO - 10.1145/2556288.2557127
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84900426895
SN - 9781450324731
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 3943
EP - 3952
BT - CHI 2014
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 26 April 2014 through 1 May 2014
ER -