Fleshmap: Studies of Desire - Touch, Look, and Listen

Posted by Nathan / Aug 21, 2008 to Artistic Visualization / 8 comments

Fleshmap: Studies of Desire - Touch, Look, and Listen

Fleshmap is a new project by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas that explores human desire from three points of view - touch, look, and listen.

Touch

The touch section delves into where people like to be touched and where people like to touch on the human body, male and female. Just a fare warning: there's a little bit of naked, so it might be not suitable for work depending on what you consider NSFW. Data were collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk with the help of Dolores Labs. The above displays body parts ordered by where women like to be touched. Apparently the back of the neck is most popular.

Look

Look is a little bit more abstract. Well, sort of. It's a look at nipple hair patterns. Yeah, you heard me. It's 12 men, 12 nipples, 12 patterns. There's also a section for women's nipples.

Listen

Lastly, Martin and Fernanda explore what we sing about. Each column represents a genre and larger circles show body parts that are more often sung about in that genre. Most sing about eyes a lot. Can you guess which column is for hip-hop?

Everything is interactive, so go check it out for yourself. Screenshots don't really do the projects justice.

[via Dolores]

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Comments

  • Moritz Stefaner
    Aug 21, 2008, 5:04 am

    Not thrilled by the aesthetics and the visualizations, they are not bad either but overall a bit shallow. But I found the data gathering methodology quite interesting, here is more info from dolores labs:
    http://blog.doloreslabs.com/20.....rcing-sex/

  • Ryan Mathe
    Aug 21, 2008, 7:29 am

    the nipple hair patterns actually made me laugh, how odd

  • Nathan
    Aug 21, 2008, 9:56 am

    Mortiz - yeah, the layout/aesthetics does feel a little rushed. not sure if there was deadline or maybe a too-early announcement on dolores.

  • Dave
    Aug 21, 2008, 6:23 pm

    I don’t think Touch section really tells you anything other than the obvious and there’s not a huge difference between wanting to be touched and want to touch.

    Aesthetically though it’s great.. and no not in that way! :o)

  • Nathan
    Aug 21, 2008, 7:25 pm

    yeah, i guess there are only subtle differences, but i think the idea was to find out if there was.

  • Mike
    Aug 26, 2008, 11:20 pm

    What? No Ears? Ears at the BEST. Women MELT!

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