INTITEC, short for Intimacy with and through Technology, is a junior research group headed by Dr. Jessica Szczuka, which is dedicated to researching various dimensions of digitized intimacy.
Founded in 2022, it is associated with the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security (Universitätsallianz Ruhr) and the department for Social Psychology: Media and Communication of the University Duisburg-Essen.
The primary objective is to empirically investigate the broad range of effects that new technologies and the process of digitalization have on relationship building and sexual experiences.
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Relevance
“It happens because like all technology throughout history, information technology is motivated simply by what people want. Technology after technology, one of the first things people do is use it for sex.”
Jonathan Coopersmith
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Our junior research group is committed to unraveling the connections between human intimacy and technology. Allow us to introduce the passionate minds driving our research.
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