Wearing Embodied Emotions
Subtitle: A Practice Based Design Research on Wearable Technology
By: by Seçil Uğur
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
Publisher: Springer Milan; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Milano
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9788847052475
Subjects: Industrial design; Engineering design; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Computer science; Architectural design
Description: Today, people are in an era of digitally mediated Human-to-Human Interaction, which cannot provide full sensorial contact and therefore, emotions cannot be communicated completely. The intimate cover of the human body, i.e. garment is the interface, where many personal traits are embodied. With the improvements in textile and electronics industry, this embodiment can be carried on a higher level, where the garments become dynamic interfaces and extensions of the human body. This book consists of a research on skin, clothes and technology as extensions of human body, emotions, technology-mediated emotions and a design practice that explores the communicative level of wearable technology through turning it into a living surface, which can convert intangible data to tangible in order to provide an emotional communication. This book aims to show how Human-Technology interaction is carried into an alternative context, where technology dissolves in use and starts serving for enhancing HHI.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Human Body’s Extensions; title: Emotion, Design and Technology; title: A Design Practice on Emotional Embodiment through Wearable Technology; title: Prototyping and Testing; title: Conclusion.