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The science of love, Inspired by a marvelous video by Helen Fisher, I wanna borrow this metaphor and apply that to human-computer interaction, since J. Bronowski told us: Innovation is the creation of the unity in what is diverse by the discovery of unexpected likeness.

According to her theory, there’re three types of love, and all three types are independent from each other. They are:

1. Romantic love

2. Sex drive

3. Long-term attachment

She concluded that a human being can have the same feeling at the same time to his/her lover, or have the same feeling at the same time to different lovers.

I would love to extend her theory to Human-Computer interaction by categorizing my own digital products to these three groups.

1. Long-term attachment.

Example: my desktop computer(my wife). Trust, Reliability and security-guaranteed.

2. Romantic love partner

Example: My laptop(my lover), Promotes possession, motivation and intense energy on a platonic level.

3. Sexual partners.

Example: my other digital devices, Satisfy my curiosity and short-term excitement.

I’m sure a through exploration and understanding of Helen’s “love”theory will inspire digital product development strategy. The different ways people expect and treat their three types of lovers, are quite similar to the ways they treat their digital products. Furthermore, as the digital products(and their softwares )evolve, they will eventually own the ability of “memory-based prediction”, and most of these digital devices will become an extension of physical human body. We all know the ability to love, is one of the fundamental abilities that God assigned to human beings, we can assume, a simulation of the loving behavior of human being(attachment, sexual, romantic), will push the digital products development into a new era.

这篇博客涉及到我最喜欢的一个话题，将人类行为的模式转化为数字产品行为模式。基于海伦费舍的科学爱情研究，我把我身边的数字产品用类比的方式也归纳为成三类，长期伴侣产品，性欲伴侣产品，和浪漫伴侣产品。我的理论是，人们对于三种不同的爱情伴侣有不同的期望值和行为模式，这些价值可以直接类比转化到数字产品开发的战略中。同时我们意识到，在数字产品的进化中， 他们变成了人们所依赖的身体的一部分(self-extension), 数字产品对于人们爱情模式的模拟可以增加人们对于数字产品的感情和个性化体验。原文的链接在此。

问题： 数字产品和爱情行为的关系有那些，我们可以得到怎样的启示。