Paper Info
Title
An Embodiment Perspective of Affective Touch Behaviour in Experiencing Digital Textiles
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ACII.2013.143
ACII
Keywords
Field
DocType
touch behaviour,textile property,semantic experience,digital realm,embodiment perspective,textile experience,affective touch behaviour,interactive digital handling,unconstrained touch,realistic touch experience,experiencing digital textiles,textile-handling experience,current technology,cognition,gesture recognition,human computer interaction
Information system,User experience design,Communication,Computer science,Embodied cognition,Human–computer interaction,Affective computing,Affect (psychology),Cognition,Perception,Haptic technology
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2156-8103
2
0.45
References 
Authors
16
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bruna Petreca182.20
Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze2123998.61
Sharon Baurley3348.82
Penelope Watkins481.18
Douglas Atkinson5142.70