New digital processes are changing how garments are designed and developed. From wearable electronics to motion capture, to crafting a pattern on a virtual mannequin, what does rapid digitisation in fashion education and industry mean for touch? Has the role of touch and tactile material engagement in the garment design development process been fully understood yet? How does one go about studying touch practices in the contemporary fashion studio? In this episode, Lili Golmohammadi speaks to UAL lecturer, researcher, and fellow IN-TOUCH PhD candidate Douglas Atkinson about how he came to frame his study, and the ethnographic approaches he employed to understand how fashion students and tutor-practitioners use touch. Now in the final stages of the PhD, Douglas reflects on how digital touch technologies might best support fashion designers’ touch practices in the future.
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Developing a remote touch device
Guest post, by Frederik Brudy. Twitter: @kopfnuss. This post refers to the Tactile Emoticon Project, a collaboration with: · Dr. Aikaterini Fotopoulou Reader in Affective Neuroscience, Research Department of Clinical, Health and Educational Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, Brain Sciences, SLMS, UCL · Professor Nadia Berthouze Professor in Affective Computing and Interaction, UCL Interaction Centre, connected to… Continue reading Developing a remote touch device
IN-TOUCH: DIGITAL TOUCH COMMUNICATION 