Technology and Touch [electronic resource] : The Biopolitics of Emerging Technologies /
Cranny-Francis, A.author.
Technology and Touch addresses the development of a range of new touch technologies, both technologies that we reach out to touch and technologies that touch us, by exploring how we use touch to connect with and understand our world, and ourselves.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Touch: An Embodied, Social and Cultural Practice; 2 Technology: Theorizing Human-Technology Interaction; Part I: Technologies of Touch; 3 Eye Feel: Visuality and Touch; 4 Good Vibrations: Touch, Sound and Movement; Part II: Technologies That We Touch; 5 Mouse, Screen and Console: The Capabilities and Ethics of Touch-Enabled Technologies; 6 From PHANToM to Haptic Cow: Technologies That Touch Back; Part III: Technologies That Touch Us; 7 Smart Textiles: Giving a New Sense to the Notion That Clothing Makes the (Hu)man
8 Prosthetics and Robots: Marking the Borders of Human/Technology InteractionConclusion; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Technology and Touch addresses the development of a range of new touch technologies, both technologies that we reach out to touch and technologies that touch us, by exploring how we use touch to connect with and understand our world, and ourselves.
Communication.
Culture.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Cultural studies.
Engineering.
Media Studies.
Sociology of Culture.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Social Theory.
Cultural Studies.
Engineering, general.