Making touch analog: The prospects and perils of a haptic media studies

Parisi, David; Archer, Jason

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“…It is important to note that habit automaticity is a necessary but not determining condition causing compulsive or addictive behaviors, as many other factors play an essential role in shaping the path to pathology (Wood and Rünger, 2016). Smartphone technologies give primacy to haptics (i.e., making touch an analog of seeing and hearing) (Parisi and Archer, 2017), a feature that is particularly malleable to the design and implantation of habit-forming interfaces and apps (Stawarz et al, 2015). Our research findings have imparted numerous temporal, locale-based and context-derived behavioral tendencies of smartphone use among the students.…”

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Smartphone Use and Psychological Well-Being Among College Students in China: A Qualitative Assessment

Cheng

Tai

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Background: Problematic smartphone use is widespread, and college-age youth faces an especially high risk of its associated consequences. While a promising body of research has emerged in recent years in this area, the domination of quantitative inquiries can be fruitfully and conceptually complemented by perspectives informed through qualitative research. Toward that end, this study aimed to interrogate the myriad behavioral, attitudinal, and psychological tendencies as a side effect of college students’ engagement with the smartphone in their everyday lived experience through in-depth interviews.Methods: We recruited 70 participants from seven college campuses hailing from different geographic regions in China, and conducted semi-structured in-depth virtual interviews via WeChat in November and December 2020. Subjective experiences, personal narratives and individual perceptions in the context of routine interaction with the smartphone were thematically analyzed through a reiterative process in an effort to detect prevailing threads and recurring subthemes.Results: The smartphone has established a pervasive presence in college students’ everyday life. Time-based use characteristics generated a typology of four distinct user groups: hypo-connected antagonists, balanced majority, hyper-connected enthusiasts, and indulgent zealots. Habitual usage falls on predictable patterns matched onto temporal, locale-based and contextual cues and triggers. Students’ dependency relationships with the smartphone have both functional and emotional dimensions, as prominently manifested in occasions of detachment from the device. Self-regulatory effort in monitoring and limiting use is significantly impacted by mental focus and personal goal setting. Perspectives from our qualitative data suggest the need for taking into account a variety of contextual cues and situational factors in dissecting psychological and emotional outcomes of smartphone use and abuse.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smartphone Use and Psychological Well-Being Among College Students in China: A Qualitative Assessment

Cheng

Tai

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…If visual communication design wants to occupy a place in the field of novel technology and achieve practical and effective development, it must carry out deep thinking through the comprehensive collection of effective data from various parties, statistics, and induction of various characteristics of novel technology [29]. In consideration of this actual situation, visual communication designers can publish some of their own works on the network, so that the audience can appreciate their works on the network platform.…”

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Symbolic Model of New Media Art Expression Based on Artificial Intelligence Big Data

Lee¹

2022

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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With the rapid development of China’s economy and the continuous optimization and improvement of Internet information technology, a new thing, new media, has emerged. On this basis, a kind of artistic behavior of creating, carrying, spreading, and appreciating is also called new media art. New media art has developed for a long time in foreign countries, but its development and popularization are relatively late in China, and it is still in a stage of improvement. As far as visual communication design is concerned, the emergence and development of new media have strongly promoted the development of its work and the dissemination of various works. Developing visual communication design based on new media art has become a key issue for all visual communication designers. Nowadays, deep learning is widely used in different fields in different ways, and image art representation is a hot research field in computer vision. Therefore, this paper mainly studies and analyzes the symbolism of new media art expression forms and proposes a new media art symbolism model based on artificial intelligence big data. In order to provide a method of real-time representation of art images, the deep learning method is used to model the artistic expression of images, and spatial reorganization of content features and style features is carried out. This paper designs simulation experiments to verify the effectiveness of the model, which can provide some help for the development and improvement of new media art in China. We compared the results of our model with a number of other models to test its effectiveness. We achieved a matching accuracy of 98.4% which is higher than or equal to the results of the existing models.

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“…In this connection, and naturally perhaps in this age of touch screens, pressure sensors and track pads, recent scholarship has tended to gravitate towards telling (pre)histories of haptic ‘media’ – tracing out that particular regime, if you will, of vibro- and electrotactility, its laboratory origins and lineages and the ways the senses of touch thus became embroiled, eventually, with questions of signal transduction, communication, interactivity, sensory substitution and so on (e.g. Mills, 2011; Parisi, 2018; Parisi and Archer, 2017; Plotnick, 2017). As David Parisi puts it, touch’s 19th-century (and ongoing) ‘enclosure in the lab’ had lasting consequences, shaping conceptions of ‘the haptic’ (and haptic interfaces) to this day (2018: 17).…”

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Primordial Haptics, 1925–1935: Hands, Tools and the Psychotechnics of Prehistory

Städler

2021

Body & Society

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‘Psychotechnics’, Weimar Germany’s science du jour, typically is framed as a symptom of ‘technological media’ – obscuring the persistent significance of ‘dexterity’, ‘skill’ and ‘manual labour’ at the time. More broadly, there is a tendency to construe ‘the haptic’ as predominantly a casualty of modernity: skilled hands replaced by conveyor belts; skilled hands defended by the rearguard actions of arts-and-crafts movements; skilled hands destroyed by industrialized warfare. Drawing on contemporary investigations into the ‘organ of touch’, this essay aims to complicate this picture by reconstructing the proto-ergonomic project of Friedrich Herig, a German engineer, amateur prehistorian and expert on craft labour who rose to distinction in the 1920s as a designer of ‘ideal’ hand tools. Herig’s eclectic sources of inspiration reveal that matters of ‘touch’, far from obsolete, were intimately bound up with matters of tools – their design, uses and putative origins – and thus, with matters of (manual) labour.

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Making touch analog: The prospects and perils of a haptic media studies

Cited by 10 publications

References 53 publications

Smartphone Use and Psychological Well-Being Among College Students in China: A Qualitative Assessment

Smartphone Use and Psychological Well-Being Among College Students in China: A Qualitative Assessment

Symbolic Model of New Media Art Expression Based on Artificial Intelligence Big Data

Primordial Haptics, 1925–1935: Hands, Tools and the Psychotechnics of Prehistory

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