A Nine-Item Questionnaire for Measuring the Social Disfordance of Mediated Social Touch Technologies

Mejia, Kenya; Yarosh, Svetlana

doi:10.1145/3134712

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“…Creepiness when using mediated touch [12,17,25,37,56] also featured highly in the literature. These papers are considered less relevant to the current paper as the users' perception of unease when using mediated touch was previously defined as disfordance by Mejia and Yarosh [46] and can be measured with a validated scale. In contrast, our aim is to capture the concept of creepiness for a larger class of artefacts, while building on the lessons learnt from previous research.…”

Section: Creepy Technologiesmentioning

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Creepy Technology:What Is It and How Do You Measure It?

Woźniak

Karolus

Läng

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Interactive technologies are getting closer to our bodies and permeate the infrastructure of our homes. While such technologies offer many benefits, they can also cause an initial feeling of unease in users. It is important for Human-Computer Interaction to manage first impressions and avoid designing technologies that appear creepy. To that end, we developed the Perceived Creepiness of Technology Scale (PCTS), which measures how creepy a technology appears to a user in an initial encounter with a new artefact. The scale was developed based on past work on creepiness and a set of ten focus groups conducted with users from diverse backgrounds. We followed a structured process of analytically developing and validating the scale. The PCTS is designed to enable designers and researchers to quickly compare interactive technologies and ensure that they do not design technologies that produce initial feelings of creepiness in users. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → HCI design and evaluation methods.

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Section: Creepy Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creepy Technology:What Is It and How Do You Measure It?

Woźniak

Karolus

Läng

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…We conducted factor analysis using a varimax rotation, in which we replicated the approach by Mejia and Yarosh [17]. We then used visual inspection of screen plots to determine the optimal number of factors.…”

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“…We believe that recruiting additional participants and conducting the CFA enabled us to reinforce the reliability of TSRI, even though we recognise this is not a standard approach in developing scales for HCI (eg. [12,17,26] did not apply this method).…”

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“…We then used this data to perform exploratory factor analysis and item reduction. Since there is a lacking consensus over expected local sample size standards, we aimed for a sample size of 100-200 participants, in line with the development and validation of other scales in HCI [16,17,28].…”

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“…The average age of participants was M = 34.1 (SD = 10.2) with 62 of participants identifying as female, 113 as male and 1 participant as non-binary. We recruited a sample size within the expected range, exceeding the ones used for development of related scales in recent studies in HCI [17,26,31]. Moreover, our recruitment approach enabled us to reach diverse participant group of various cultural and professional backgrounds, providing more holistic insight than for samples based on student cohorts [2,11].…”

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The Development and Validation of the Technology-Supported Reflection Inventory

Bentvelzen

Niess

Woźniak

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Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Refection is an often addressed design goal in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. An increasing number of artefacts for refection have been developed in recent years. However, evaluating if and how an interactive technology helps a user refect is still complex. This makes it difcult to compare artefacts (or prototypes) for refection, impeding future design eforts. To address this issue, we developed the Technology-Supported Refection Inventory (TSRI), which is a scale that evaluates how efectively a system supports refection. We frst created a list of possible scale items based on past work in defning refection. The items were then reviewed by experts. Next, we performed exploratory factor analysis to reduce the scale to its fnal length of nine items. Subsequently, we confrmed test-retest validity of our instrument, as well as its construct validity. The TSRI enables researchers and practitioners to compare prototypes designed to support refection. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing; HCI design and evaluation methods.

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SqueezeBands

Yarosh

Mejia

Unver

et al. 2017

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Mediated social touch technologies aim to transmit the sense of touch between two or more physically distributed partners. Previous work in CSCW has focused mostly on vibrotactile actuation, though there is also significant recent interest in exploring a wider variety of haptic actuation modalities. In this paper, we explore Shape Memory Alloys as a novel means for constriction and heat activation. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach by implementing the SqueezeBands system, which augments social gestures over videochat with haptic actuation. We describe an evaluation of the system with 57 pairs of participants, collaborating on tasks either high or low emotional salience. Our results demonstrate that SqueezeBands encourage greater and more diverse demonstrations of touch and that they may be particularly appropriate for easing mental and physical demand in high emotion tasks. We end with a discussion of the opportunities and challenges in leveraging Shape Memory Alloy actuation for mediated social touch.

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A Nine-Item Questionnaire for Measuring the Social Disfordance of Mediated Social Touch Technologies

Cited by 10 publications

References 44 publications

Creepy Technology:What Is It and How Do You Measure It?

Creepy Technology:What Is It and How Do You Measure It?

The Development and Validation of the Technology-Supported Reflection Inventory

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