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Record Nr.

UNINA9910733727903321

Autore

Ugur Secil

Titolo

Wearing embodied emotions : a practice based design research on wearable technology / / Secil Ugur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

88-470-5247-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 106 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

PoliMI SpringerBriefs, , 2282-2577

Disciplina

004.16

Soggetti

Social media

Research methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"ISSN: 2191-530X."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Human Body’s Extensions -- Emotion, Design and Technology -- A Design Practice on Emotional Embodiment through Wearable Technology -- Prototyping and Testing -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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.