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An Embodiment Perspective of Affective Touch Behaviour in Experiencing Digital Textiles

Petreca, Bruna and Bianchi-Berthouze, Nadia and Baurley, Sharon and Watkins, Penelope and Atkinson, Douglas (2013) An Embodiment Perspective of Affective Touch Behaviour in Experiencing Digital Textiles. In: ACII '13 Proceedings of the 2013 Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. IEEE Computer Society, Washington DC, USA, pp. 770-775. ISBN 978-0-7695-5048-0

Type of Research: Book Section
Creators: Petreca, Bruna and Bianchi-Berthouze, Nadia and Baurley, Sharon and Watkins, Penelope and Atkinson, Douglas
Description:

Handling textiles is not only a semantic experience, but also an emotional one. Whilst handling a textile is crucial for its appreciation and understanding, this channel is still little explored in the digital realm, where focus has been given to the haptic feedback aspect of handling. In this paper, we discuss the importance of touch behaviour in interactive digital handling to allow people to explore, emotionally engage with and understand textile properties. We build on our findings from previous studies, where we investigated how people handle fabrics in real-life situations and more generally how their touch behaviour may affect the experience, relating it to literature from textile, HCI, embodied cognition and embodied affect to discuss how current technology should develop to provide a more realistic touch experience. Additionally, we consider how crowd sourcing of the textile experience could be extended by taking into account non-verbal expressions of textile-handling experience. We show that further knowledge is needed to design interactive technology that supports active and unconstrained touch, as well as the affective aspects of experience.

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Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: Touch behaviour; Affective touch behaviour; Tactile interactions; User Experience
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: IEEE Computer Society
Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > London College of Fashion
Date: 2 September 2013
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ACII.2013.143
Related Publications: Tactile perceptions of digital textiles: a design research approach
Date Deposited: 19 Jun 2014 15:12
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2015 21:39
Item ID: 6851
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/6851

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