Feeling your data: Touch and making sense of personal digital data

Lupton, Deborah

doi:10.1177/1461444817717515

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“…A variety of emotions we experience are "constructed" from a domain general mechanism of conceptualization (meaning making) [36][37][38][39][40]. In this regard, sensory engagements are the very foundation of our experiences and meaning-making [2]. Haptic sense is special in this process as it occurs in the entire body surface.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Interactive Plants: Multisensory Visual-Tactile Interaction Enhances Emotional Experience

2018

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Using a multisensory interface system, we examined how people’s emotional experiences change as their tactile sense (touching a plant) was augmented with visual sense (“seeing” their touch). Our system (the Interactive Plant system) senses the electrical capacitance of the human body and visualizes users’ tactile information on a flat screen (when the touch is gentle, the program draws small and thin roots around the pot; when the touch is more harsh or abrupt, big and thick roots are displayed). We contrasted this multimodal combination (touch + vision) with a unimodal interface (touch only or watch only) and measured the impact of the multimodal interaction on participants’ emotion. We found significant emotional gains in the multimodal interaction. Participants’ self-reported positive affect, joviality, attentiveness and self-assurance increased dramatically in multimodal interaction relative to unimodal interaction; participants’ electrodermal activity (EDA) increased in the multimodal condition, suggesting that our plant-based multisensory visual-tactile interaction raised arousal. We suggest that plant-based tactile interfaces are advantageous for emotion generation because haptic perception is by nature embodied and emotional.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…Sensory engagements are the very foundation of our experience. Among many different sensory experiences, haptic perception is immediate, direct and private [2,3]. Skin and muscle mechanoreceptors and thermoreceptors are distributed all over the body surface, enabling perception of texture, forces, motion, vibration and temperature [4].…”

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Interactive Plants: Multisensory Visual-Tactile Interaction Enhances Emotional Experience

2018

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“…However, scholars also have the positive view about the datafication and digitalisation where new information integrates to the old ones and keeps the picture moving (e.g. Lupton, 2016Lupton, . 2017Michael & Lupton, 2015;Tanweer, Fiore-Gartland, & Aragon, 2016).…”

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The politics of data and reality in interdisciplinary social psychology

Sinha¹

2020

Preprint

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This article draws attention to the meaning of data and reality in social psychology, where everything is in the process, and one complements the other. Since social psychological data matters, data handling and interpretations in terms of cause-effect nexus, best descriptions and claiming of human subjectivities become a vital part of the advancement of social psychology. Social psychological enterprise is a political field where the role of structure and power give meaning to the data, and hence construct the reality. The current article discusses on the politics of data and power and how subjects of social psychology are not data in itself but active data processor. The observer perspective implied to understand others’, if does not cater to the need of justice, the data is oppressive in itself. Keyword: cause-effect, data, human nature, interdisciplinarity, reality, social psychology

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“…A large body of qualitative research has explored the complex ways in which people negotiate and engage with digital technologies and the data generated through them (Beer and Burrows, 2013;Couldry and Hepp, 2016). As part of this stream of research, scholars have examined how the designs, architectures and affordances of digital devices -social media platforms in particular -shape users' engagement with and understandings of these technologies (Kaun & Stiernstedt, 2014;Lupton, 2015;Bivens & Haimson, 2016;Lupton, 2017;Bucher & Helmond, 2018). Importantly, studies have also pointed to the specific political economy in which users engage with digital technologies and in particular the role of corporations in promoting notions of a 'social' Web and of platforms as 'neutral' technical infrastructures facilitating social connections while downplaying the ways in which personal data is turned into commodities and users subject to ubiquitous profiling and targeted advertising (Gillespie, 2010;van Dijck, 2013;Fuchs, 2014).…”

Section: Digital Technology and Data In Social Researchmentioning

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Rethinking social media for qualitative research: The use of Facebook Activity Logs and Search History in interview settings

Gangneux

2019

The Sociological Review

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Following calls to rethink the repertoires of social research and take advantage of the new possibilities opened by digital data and devices, this article discusses the opportunities and challenges of using Facebook Activity Logs (FAL) and Search History (FSH) as digital probes during interviews. Drawing on empirical data, the article outlines the value of using social media features in qualitative research with regard to generating thick data and encouraging people to reflect upon the range of everyday practices captured by the platforms. This article argues, however, that to use social media features and data in interview settings researchers need to carefully identify and examine the different forms of liveliness generated by their use and the ways in which liveliness mediates and affects the research data and the situation of the interview itself. The article contends that critically engaging with the liveliness generated by these types of probes in interview settings will allow researchers to better discern how digital platforms and data can inform social enquiry while simultaneously forming a part of how we know social lives and practices.

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Feeling your data: Touch and making sense of personal digital data

Cited by 138 publications

References 52 publications

Interactive Plants: Multisensory Visual-Tactile Interaction Enhances Emotional Experience

Interactive Plants: Multisensory Visual-Tactile Interaction Enhances Emotional Experience

The politics of data and reality in interdisciplinary social psychology

Rethinking social media for qualitative research: The use of Facebook Activity Logs and Search History in interview settings

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