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gonzo
06-23-2006, 01:11 AM
Interface: Free “Smut” As Deception

Yevgeniy Medynskiy of the Culturally Embedded Computing Group at Cornell University has a paper available online on Free “Smut” As Deception (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~johannab/sexual.interactions.2006/papers/YevgeniyMedynskiy-SexualInteractions2006.pdf).
Deceiving the user of an interface is usually considered a poor design decision. It is rare to find deceitful interfaces, and most of the time if a user recognizes deception, she will try to ensure that that experience not repeated. In this position paper, I will examine the deception in the interfaces to Thumbnail Gallery Posts (TGPs) – ad-driven websites providing links to purportedly free pornography. TGPs are some of the most popular destinations on the Internet, and the design of many of them suggests repeat users are common. After describing the deception in their interfaces, and how it is accomplished, I will speculate on why this type of deception has become a norm and why the users of these websites tolerate it, unlike most other forms of deception.
spazlabz
06-23-2006, 12:51 PM
I will speculate on why this type of deception has become a norm and why the users of these websites tolerate it, unlike most other forms of deception.
it works
they jerk off to it
biggest problem with TGPs is they reward premature ejaculators.


spaz
Grump
06-23-2006, 08:17 PM
This guy has to speculate on why people can't think with no blood in their brain?
Jace
06-23-2006, 09:46 PM
damn...i can't read sideways

oh wait, I can turn my laptop on it's side
Useless
06-23-2006, 11:08 PM
Yevgeniy Medynskiy of the Culturally Embedded Computing GroupFucking Russians.

My apologies, of course, if any of you are a fucking Russian. ;)
bluemoney
06-24-2006, 12:18 AM
Fucking Russians.

My apologies, of course, if any of you are a fucking Russian. ;)
Funny? I thought you were a connoisseur of fine Russian Wallpaper.
Useless
06-24-2006, 09:29 AM
Funny? I thought you were a connoisseur of fine Russian Wallpaper.
I am a lover of the "what the hell were they thinking" school of interior design.
docholly
06-25-2006, 09:31 PM
I am a lover of the "what the hell were they thinking" school of interior design.

Lost in the 60's with you!!

:waving: Hi UW!!
Useless
06-26-2006, 12:02 AM
Lost in the 60's with you!!

:waving: Hi UW!!Holly!
Me getting lost in the sixties would involve time travel. I was born in 1970, which explains my silky-smooth bottom.
Elli
07-05-2006, 04:06 PM
Please tell me he didn't get paid to write that paper.
Hammer
07-05-2006, 04:42 PM
Where's the deception and the 'purportedly free' porn? Did he actually look at any real TGPs or just some CJs?
Panky
07-05-2006, 11:01 PM
biggest problem with TGPs is they reward premature ejaculators.


spaz

It's not the TGP sites. It's the people who build galleries with little to no concept of the tease factor.
melody
07-13-2006, 01:23 PM
Interface: Free “Smut” As Deception

Yevgeniy Medynskiy of the Culturally Embedded Computing Group at Cornell University has a paper available online on Free “Smut” As Deception (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~johannab/sexual.interactions.2006/papers/YevgeniyMedynskiy-SexualInteractions2006.pdf).
Deceiving the user of an interface is usually considered a poor design decision.


Why is it all Academician rhetoric pieces are loaded for bear these days?

The "user deception" concept has been on-going since Reader's Digest sent out its first "free trial issue to be rebilled unless you cancel before the second issue and then only ten cents per copy" mailer in about 1922.

The "free sample" concept (in hopes the buyer doesn't read the small print) has been around forever. They only turn their noses up now because it's porn that's been offered.