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Wearing Embodied Emotions

A Practice Based Design Research on Wearable Technology

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Seçil Uğur

    1. , Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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  • A perspective on wearable technology from a phenomenological overview
  • Tips for creating wearable technology prototypes
  • A design model and assumptions that can trigger new avenues for human-to-human interaction that is mediated with wearable technology

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)

Part of the book sub series: PoliMI SpringerBriefs (BRIEFSPOLIMI)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Seçil Uğur
    Pages 1-5

  3. Human Body’s Extensions

    • Seçil Uğur
    Pages 7-31

  4. Emotion, Design and Technology

    • Seçil Uğur
    Pages 33-59

  5. A Design Practice on Emotional Embodiment Through Wearable Technology

    • Seçil Uğur
    Pages 61-74

  6. Prototyping and Testing

    • Seçil Uğur
    Pages 75-95

  7. Conclusion

    • Seçil Uğur
    Pages 97-102

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 103-106
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About this book

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.

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  • , Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Seçil Uğur

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