Wearing Embodied Emotions: A Practice Based Design Research on Wearable Technology

Ugur, Secil

ISBN 10: 8847052467 / ISBN 13: 9788847052468

Published by Springer-Verlag New York Inc, 2013

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2013 edition. 106 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # x-8847052467

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wearing Embodied Emotions: A Practice Based Design Research on Wearable Technology
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8847052467
• ISBN 13: 9788847052468
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.25 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.