Comments on: Love, infinite source of questions http://snowedin.net/blog/2007/01/22/love-infinite-source-of-questions/ Erik Pukinskis Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:30:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dad http://snowedin.net/blog/2007/01/22/love-infinite-source-of-questions/#comment-559 Dad Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:15:23 +0000 http://www.snowedin.net/blog/?p=760#comment-559 The answer is yes. Remember you’ll never again be the same person who woke up this morning. Back in college I kept an occasional journal and once wrote “Love is the greatest freedom that can exist between two people.” You start out crazed and that craziness maintained is what allows you to build a lifetime of true love. The answer is yes. Remember you’ll never again be the same person who woke up this morning. Back in college I kept an occasional journal and once wrote “Love is the greatest freedom that can exist between two people.” You start out crazed and that craziness maintained is what allows you to build a lifetime of true love.

]]> By: Tim http://snowedin.net/blog/2007/01/22/love-infinite-source-of-questions/#comment-558 Tim Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:50:52 +0000 http://www.snowedin.net/blog/?p=760#comment-558 A line of questioning that I've been pondering lately: just how much is it possible to practices of HCI and design to love? Is speed-dating really just a form of low-fi prototyping? How exactly does iterative design apply to romance? Could you created a dating service centered around the idea that you can learn large amounts about what you're looking for by analyzing repeated failures? Would people be willing to tolerate (or perhaps be interested in) a recommendation system that required them to "seed" the system with probably bad dates in addition to taking a personality test? Would such a system ultimately lead to better matches than a system solely based on compatibility? Is there something inherently wrong about trying to take a cross-disciplinary approach to analyzing issues of love? Or might it lead to beneficial outcomes that might not be immediately obvious? A line of questioning that I’ve been pondering lately: just how much is it possible to practices of HCI and design to love?

Is speed-dating really just a form of low-fi prototyping? How exactly does iterative design apply to romance? Could you created a dating service centered around the idea that you can learn large amounts about what you’re looking for by analyzing repeated failures? Would people be willing to tolerate (or perhaps be interested in) a recommendation system that required them to “seed” the system with probably bad dates in addition to taking a personality test? Would such a system ultimately lead to better matches than a system solely based on compatibility?

Is there something inherently wrong about trying to take a cross-disciplinary approach to analyzing issues of love? Or might it lead to beneficial outcomes that might not be immediately obvious?

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