Understanding the social character and societal impact of touch as it is digitally mediated – developing novel theory and methods
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It’s All Academic Festival, October 2019
It’s All Academic Festival, October 2019
It’s All Academic Festival, October 2019
. Fieldwork with Loughborough University MA UX Design students on the Designing Digital Touch toolkit. Image credit: IN-TOUCH
David Parisi, author of ‘Archaeologies of Touch’ on the production of desire for new haptic technologies at our Haptic Media Studies Symposium, July 2019. Image credit: IN-TOUCH
Designing Digital Touch toolkit ‘Pre-Discover’ stage cards. Image credit: IN-TOUCH
Mark Paterson, author of ‘The Senses of Touch’, discusses the use of ethnographic video methods to engage with sensory impressions of place and space at our Haptic Media Studies Symposium, July 2019. Image credit: IN-TOUCH
‘Neo Touch’ – a speculative brain-computer interface design by Christine Wuerth. Image credit: Christine Wuerth
Sophie Breuckner’s speculative ‘Empathy Box’, inspired by the Empathy Box of Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ which connects lonely strangers through shared warmth. Image credit: Sophie Breuckner
‘Footsie Slippers’, haptic footwear designed to help minimise long distance loneliness, by Emilie B. Cohrt. Read her blog post here. Image credit: Emilie B. Cohrt
Cuddle workshops. Image credit: still from ‘London 360 Cuddle Workshop’ by Cuddle Nation
Sci-fi artist Lucy McRae’s highly dystopian ‘Compression Cradle’ speculates on a world where too much technology makes us lonely and touch deficient. Her antidote is the tactile Cradle machine, which vacuums air around the body to encase & hold it tight. Image credit: Daria Scagliola
The ‘Moment’ – a movement enhancement device for people with Parkinson’s, by 2019 RCA graduate Lucy Jung. Image credit: Lucy Jung
Designer Ryo Tada demoes ‘Fulu’, her haptic fingernail device to the IN-TOUCH team. Image credit: IN-TOUCH
Designer Ryo Tada demoes ‘Fulu’, her haptic fingernail device to the IN-TOUCH team. Image credit: IN-TOUCH
Fulu – a haptic fingernail by Ryo Tada. Image credit: Ryo Tada
Imagining Remote Personal Touch: Rapid prototyping
Remote Contact: I wanna hold your hand – glove
Remote Contact: Motion Prints
Remote Contact: Water Synthesiser
Remote Contact: I wanna hold your hand – glove
Imagining Remote Personal Touch: Rapid prototyping
Remote Contact: Memory Album
In Touch with Baby: The Owlet device
Remote Contact: Water Synthesiser
Imagining Remote Personal Touch: Rapid prototyping
Remote Contact: Motion Prints
Remote Contact: Water Synthesiser
Remote Contact: I wanna hold your hand – glove
Remote Contact: Workshop
In Touch with Baby
Remote Contact: Optic Sense
In Touch with Baby: Unboxing the Owlet
In Touch with Baby
Remote Contact: Workshop
Remote Contact: Workshop
Remote Contact: Memory Album
In Touch with Baby: Bedtime routines
Imagining Remote Personal Touch: Kissenger Devices
Imagining Remote Personal Touch: Rapid prototyping
Remote Contact: I wanna hold your hand – rain
Imagining Remote Personal Touch: Rapid prototyping