TY - GEN
T1 - The Hidden Language of Vibrators
T2 - 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing, DIS 2022
AU - Hua, Dianya Mia
AU - Jones, Rhys
AU - Bardzell, Jeffrey
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 ACM.
PY - 2022/6/13
Y1 - 2022/6/13
N2 - As digital artifacts for women's pleasurable experience, vibrators are sophistically designed, embedded with cutting-edge technology, and popular among women. Yet they are still facing social, cultural, and legal obstacles; they are disappointingly understudied by academia as a topic of research. In this pictorial, we use vibrators as our vehicles to speculate future aesthetic, social, and political ways of being related to female sexuality. Our speculation is based on a critical politico-ontological reading of the contemporary design of vibrators by situating it in the historical, cultural, and visual contexts through an art historical analysis. We find that the contemporary design of vibrators carries gender norms and sexual normativity into the futures that they construct. We call on Interaction Design and HCI to tackle prejudice against vibrators to explore the potential of vibrators to improve sexual autonomy, sexual self-determination, and sexual independence of women, especially women with dis/abilities and the elderly.
AB - As digital artifacts for women's pleasurable experience, vibrators are sophistically designed, embedded with cutting-edge technology, and popular among women. Yet they are still facing social, cultural, and legal obstacles; they are disappointingly understudied by academia as a topic of research. In this pictorial, we use vibrators as our vehicles to speculate future aesthetic, social, and political ways of being related to female sexuality. Our speculation is based on a critical politico-ontological reading of the contemporary design of vibrators by situating it in the historical, cultural, and visual contexts through an art historical analysis. We find that the contemporary design of vibrators carries gender norms and sexual normativity into the futures that they construct. We call on Interaction Design and HCI to tackle prejudice against vibrators to explore the potential of vibrators to improve sexual autonomy, sexual self-determination, and sexual independence of women, especially women with dis/abilities and the elderly.
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U2 - 10.1145/3532106.3533448
DO - 10.1145/3532106.3533448
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85133589379
T3 - DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing
SP - 400
EP - 414
BT - DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 13 June 2022 through 17 June 2022
ER -