Using Cultural Probes to Explore Mediated Intimacy

Kjeldskov, Jesper; Gibbs, Martin; Vetere, Frank; Howard, Steve; Pedell, Sonja; Mecoles, Karen; Bunyan, Marcus

doi:10.3127/ajis.v11i2.128

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“…These communities often have different ideas of what 'design' actually is and who does it. Vetting Wolf and her colleagues [36], as well as Jonas Löwgren [22] (who they quote), support this assertion, distinguishing between "engineering design" and "creative design". Engineering design is formalised, 'objective' and often defined in lexical terms whereas creative design explores a 'design space' through subjective involvement by the designer and "a tight interplay between problem setting and problem solving" [22] often through the use of real artefacts such as sketches and models.…”

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“…Vetting Wolf and her colleagues [36], as well as Jonas Löwgren [22] (who they quote), support this assertion, distinguishing between "engineering design" and "creative design". Engineering design is formalised, 'objective' and often defined in lexical terms whereas creative design explores a 'design space' through subjective involvement by the designer and "a tight interplay between problem setting and problem solving" [22] often through the use of real artefacts such as sketches and models. Vetting Wolf and her colleagues [36] also describe how both schools of design involve rigour and that rigour in creative design is "a repeatable process, of a consensual standard of quality, in use by a professional community of practice."…”

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confidence: 60%

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Graham

Rouncefield

Gibbs

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Proceedings of the 19th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Entertaining User Interfaces

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Cultural probes', since first being proposed and described by Bill Gaver and his colleagues, have been adapted and appropriated for a range of purposes within a variety of technology projects. In this paper we critically review different uses of Probes and discuss common aspects of different Probe variants. We also present and critique some of the debate around Probes through describing the detail of their use in two studies: The Digital Care Project (Lancaster University) and The Mediating Intimacy Project (University of Melbourne). We then reorient the discussion around Probes towards how probes work: both as interpretative fodder for social scientists and as a resource for 'designers'. Finally we discuss new possible directions for Probes as an approach and some of the challenges confronting Probes as an approach.

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Section: Some Initial Concernssupporting

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Section: Some Initial Concernssupporting

confidence: 60%

How probes work

Graham

Rouncefield

Gibbs

et al. 2007

Proceedings of the 19th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Entertaining User Interfaces

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“…We drew on the results of our interviews, our reflections, and on others' exploratory work [e.g. 40,31] to develop the concept of a minimal intimate object, which uses the minimal bandwidth possible, one bit, to communicate intimacy.…”

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“…In this effort, reflection-in-action provides a ground for uniting theory and practice; whereas theory presents a view of the world in general principles and abstract problem spaces, practice involves both building within these generalities and breaking them down. The everyday imagination and improvisation emphasis of reflection-in-action suggests why it has been taken up extensively in HCI and CSCW both as a guide for designers [15,31] and as a template for the types of activities a collaborative system should support. [28,41].…”

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Reflective design

Sengers¹,

Boehner²,

David³

et al. 2005

Proceedings of the 4th Decennial Conference on Critical Computing: Between Sense and Sensibility

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As computing moves into every aspect of our daily lives, the values and assumptions that underlie our technical practices may unwittingly be propagated throughout our culture.Drawing on existing critical approaches in computing, we argue that reflection on unconscious values embedded in computing and the practices that it supports can and should be a core principle of technology design. Building on a growing body of work in critical computing, reflective design combines analysis of the ways in which technologies reflect and perpetuate unconscious cultural assumptions, with design, building, and evaluation of new computing devices that reflect alternative possibilities. We illustrate this approach through two design case studies.

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“…Humans have an important social and personal need to feel connected in order to maintain their interpersonal relationships (Kjeldskov et al 2004). A large part of their interpersonal communication is emotional rather than factual (Kjeldskov et al 2004). …”

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Social Touch in Humanâ€“Computer Interaction

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Toet²

2015

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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Touch is our primary non-verbal communication channel for conveying intimate emotions and as such essential for our physical and emotional wellbeing. In our digital age, human social interaction is often mediated. However, even though there is increasing evidence that mediated touch affords affective communication, current communication systems (such as videoconferencing) still do not support communication through the sense of touch. As a result, mediated communication does not provide the intense affective experience of co-located communication. The need for ICT mediated or generated touch as an intuitive way of social communication is even further emphasized by the growing interest in the use of touch-enabled agents and robots for healthcare, teaching, and telepresence applications. Here, we review the important role of social touch in our daily life and the available evidence that affective touch can be mediated reliably between humans and between humans and digital agents. We base our observations on evidence from psychology, computer science, sociology, and neuroscience with focus on the first two. Our review shows that mediated affective touch can modulate physiological responses, increase trust and affection, help to establish bonds between humans and avatars or robots, and initiate pro-social behavior. We argue that ICT mediated or generated social touch can (a) intensify the perceived social presence of remote communication partners and (b) enable computer systems to more effectively convey affective information. However, this research field on the crossroads of ICT and psychology is still embryonic and we identify several topics that can help to mature the field in the following areas: establishing an overarching theoretical framework, employing better research methodologies, developing basic social touch building blocks, and solving specific ICT challenges.

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Using Cultural Probes to Explore Mediated Intimacy

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