Keep in Touch designed by Nima Motamedi at Simon Fraser University, Canada, is a networked fabric touchscreen designed to support and maintain intimacy for couples in long distance relationships. To achieve this she created a novel sensorial interface by combining the visual and tactile senses together. Each partner is presented with a blurred digital projection of their lover. When they touch their partner's body, the image comes into focus revealing their features.
In the paper presented at TEI in 2007, the authors describe how this sensory mapping creates an expressive and emotional interface allowing couples to communicate through touch, gestures, and body language.
See also her paper: The aesthetics of touch in interaction design!
See also Mutsugoto by Tomoko Hayashi, Stefan Agamanolis and Matthew Karau.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Keep in touch: a tactile-vision intimate interface
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
DNA, this little monster
Following up on my post about the obsession for the future of human identification via DNA, interaction designers interrogate the influence of DNA analysis on dating. How will dating change when DNA analysis can reveal the presence of undesirable genes?
Doll Illustrations by Abake
Evidence Dolls, created by Fiona Raby, are hypothetical products sold in a fictional shopping mall called Bioland.
The Dolls were commissioned by the Pompidou Centre for the D-Day exhibition in 2005. The project consists of one hundred specially designed dolls used to provoke discussion amongst a group of young single women about the impact of genetic technology on their lifestyle. The Dolls come in three versions based on penis size (small, medium and large). A black indelible marker allows women to note down interesting characteristics of their lover. Hair, toenail clippings, saliva, and sperm can be collected and stored in the penis drawer. Four single women told us about their lovers -- past, present and imagined, and speculated on the implications of DNA on dating in the future.
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