Revisiting computer-mediated intimacy: In-game marriage and dyadic gameplay in audition

Guo Freeman; Jeffrey Bardzell; Shaowen Bardzell

doi:10.1145/2858036.2858484

Revisiting computer-mediated intimacy: In-game marriage and dyadic gameplay in audition

Guo Freeman, Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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Abstract

Existing studies in the field of HCI and CSCW have pointed to the significance to investigate computer-mediated intimacy and brought together concerns in ubiquitous computing, affective technologies, and experience design. However, existing conceptualizations of intimacy in collaborative online systems are largely based on empirical studies of systems that have similar social dynamics and user groups, which could lead to a bias in investigating intimacy. Using Audition, a dance battle Multiplayer Online Game with a popular marriage system, as our field site, we focus on dyadic intimacy in a non-violent online social space that has many young non-Caucasian and female users. We contribute to both confirming and further advancing existing theories of computer-mediated intimacy using this new dataset. We also suggest promising future directions for exploring the subjective intimate experiences in a scientifically defensible way.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	4325-4336
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450333627
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858484
State	Published - May 7 2016
Event	34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016 - San Jose, United States Duration: May 7 2016 → May 12 2016

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Other	34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose
Period	5/7/16 → 5/12/16

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Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Freeman, G., Bardzell, J., & Bardzell, S. (2016). Revisiting computer-mediated intimacy: In-game marriage and dyadic gameplay in audition. In CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4325-4336). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858484

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Revisiting computer-mediated intimacy: In-game marriage and dyadic gameplay in audition. / Freeman, Guo; Bardzell, Jeffrey; Bardzell, Shaowen.
CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 4325-4336 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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