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Full Frontal Intimacy - on HCI, Design & Intimacy

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Britta Schulte,

Eva HorneckerAuthors Info & Claims

DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Pages 123 - 129

https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395889

Published: 06 July 2020 Publication History

Abstract

The HCI community increasingly expands the borders of what topics are acceptable to explore, discuss and research. Recent workshops and papers on sexuality, intimate facets of the body and other sensitive topics show that intimacy in its widest sense and its impact on people's lives and well-being is relevant to the HCI community. In this paper, we draw on the results of an ongoing literature review on intimacy which shows that the concept is rarely defined, even though it has a variety of meanings. Nonetheless, as the parameters in which intimacy is explored are comparable in many instances, a predominant view prevails on what intimacy means. We share an imaginary abstract that breaks with these conventions and shows potential benefits of expanding the view on intimacy. This provocation therefore urges HCI researchers to rethink their idea of what intimacy is and offers directions of how to do so.

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Full Frontal Intimacy - on HCI, Design & Intimacy
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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ISBN:9781450379878

DOI:10.1145/3393914

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Fimpel MFlach NReckzügel MMaurer B(2023)“Hey, can we talk?”: Exploring How Revealing Implicit Emotional Responses Tangibly Could Foster Empathy During Mobile TextingProceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3569009.3573124(1-7)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2023
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Kaur JDevgon RGoel SSingh AMonteiro KSingh A(2022)Future of Intimate Artefacts: A Speculative Design InvestigationProceedings of the 13th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3570211.3570216(57-66)Online publication date: 9-Nov-2022
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