Contrasexualized artifacts : The gender of objects in interaction design

• Main Authors: Ling-Chia - Chen, 陳令佳
• Other Authors: Rung-Huei Liang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/je5hdg

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 工商業設計系 === 105 === In recent years, there has been a dramatic proliferation of research concerned with things’ gender in the object oriented research field of artificial intelligence. With the increasing usage of smart things, such as google home and amazon alexa, things have been performed different genders into our everyday lives. Yet, current researches on things’ gender only conduct in voice itself, there should be wider perspectives (behaviors, perception, etc.) to discuss things’ gender in interaction design. Therefore, this paper aims to explore human perception on things’ gender by research through design. First, we examined three design cases to understand how people perceive gender. Second, we design two prototypes, called ‘Contrasextualized artifacts’. Each artifact performed different behaviors and made a show together for participants, enabling participants to interpret each artifact’s gender in such relationship. Finally, this paper can provide designers, an understanding on how to use gender as annotation, to give form to interaction artifact design.