Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching

Making Sense of Wearables

ITP, Spring 2015

Class 03

Hearing, Feeling / Touching

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Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching2

“We are aware of our bodies. I see the world by opening my eyes and in so doing, I feel the motion of my eyelid. I feel that my legs are crossed and that my arm is raising; I feel tired and thirsty; I feel cold; I feel my teeth begin to chatter; my back itches. The way we relate to our body, including the way we perceive it, control it and affectively react to what happens to it, is unlike the way we relate to other objects.”

from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching3

“My hand is lying on the table. I experience the table as something solid, cold, and smooth. Moving my hand over the table, I get an experience of it and its thingly determinations. At the same time, I can at any moment pay attention to my hand and find on it touch-sensations, sensations of smoothness and coldness, etc.”

Husserl, Ideas II

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching4

touchant-touché phenomenon

the internal and the external

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching5

Touch

texture, temperature,

solidity, humidity, contact, weight,

pressure, force,

vibration, …

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching6

What happens when…

Out-of-body experience Supernumerary phantom limbs Somatoparaphrenia Alice in Wonderland syndrome Peripheral deafferentation Thalamic syndrome Anosognosia for hemiplegia

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching7

what we feel is determined by what we do and what we know how to do

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching8

the lived body anchors the awareness of the world

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching9

Squeeze Machine

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brain-machine interfaces

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching11

Hug Jackets

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching12

Hug Jackets

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching13

Masai Dress

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching14

Temperature Sweater

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Temperature Sweater

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 03: Hearing, Feeling / Touching16

The Hug Shirt

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Her