Master John is a design for a graduate school project for practitioners of BDSM, a set of sexual practices involving giving psychological or physical control to another person. The design for the system involves a sensor cuff for one participant and a feedback cuff for another participant. The system provides two useful functions:
1. A variable-strength, peripheral, haptic signal, which communicates levels of excitement.
2. A scene-interrupting signal, which warns of potential physical danger.
This project is submitted to the workshop as an example of the intersection of interaction design and sexual practice.
Though this was a short project, pursuing the design goals and building prototypes revealed many domain-particular and universal design questions: How can computer technology fit into BDSM philosophy? Through what channels should output signals be delivered? How best to present health data to discourage even riskier “edge play”?
Noessel, C. (2006). Master John: Peripheral safety and feedback system for practitioners of BDSM. Paper presented at the CHI Workshop 2006, Sexual Interactions: Why we should talk about sex in HCI, 24-27 April 2006.
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