What does the app want? A psychoanalytic interpretation of dating apps’ libidinal economy

Design Requirements for a Computational Libidinal Economy

Design requirements for a computational libidinal economy are presented that constitute a preliminary theory of basic types of motivation and learning. The theory avoids many of the di culties of Freudian libido theory and has new arguments in favour of it. A corollary is a circulation of value theory of simple a ect that builds upon existing information processing theories of emotion. Such a t...

what women and men want: gender differences in mate preference of online dating services

this paper studies the effect of gender differences in mate preference in one of the major iranian online dating services. to best of our knowledge, there are only few similar studies conducted with this objective focusing on iran. a quantitative approach is used in this paper which is inferred from a database of approximately 84 thousands of users from various geographical locations inside ira...

Does What We Want Influence What We See?

I aim to show that the content of our perceptual states depends counterfactually on the action we want to perform. Most philosophical and psychological theories of perception claim or at least assume the opposite: they conceive of perception as allpurpose: what we want to do does not influence what we see. I will argue that the content of one's perceptual state does vary as the action one is in...

App Savvy - Turning Ideas into iPad and iPhone Apps Customers Really Want

In this age of modern era, the use of internet must be maximized. Yeah, internet will help us very much not only for important thing but also for daily activities. Many people now, from any level can use internet. The sources of internet connection can also be enjoyed in many places. As one of the benefits is to get the on-line app savvy turning ideas into ipad and iphone apps customers really ...

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