We will continue our investigation into senses and how they relate to wearable technologies, how they can be augmented, used to navigate personal and social space, create new interfaces and ways of connecting us to our self and the world.

1. 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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“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

3. 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

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touchant-touché phenomenon
the internal and the external

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Touch
texture,
temperature,
solidity,
humidity,
contact,
weight,
pressure,
force,
vibration,
…

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

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

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the lived body anchors the awareness of the world

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Squeeze Machine

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brain-machine interfaces

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Hug Jackets

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Hug Jackets

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Masai Dress

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Temperature Sweater

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Temperature Sweater

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The Hug Shirt

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