Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Notes of Pillow Talk: Can We Afford Intimacy?

A growing trend within tangible and embedded interaction is a desire to express emotional qualities through interaction, accompanied by an interest in incorporating movement and human perceptual-motor abilities. Within HCI, intimacy is among an emerging set of experiential values that also include curiosity, enjoyment, resonance, play and self-awareness. This paper developed a small number of sensory-enhanced, soft, tactile, pliable, throw-able pillows as intimate everyday object. Techniques are developed to use the surface of pillows as a tactile intellgent interface. The main sensors integrated in interactive pillows are a touch-based interface for measuring presure and accelerometers to measure motions. Fans, vibrators and light sources, either in the form of light emissive fibers or as a LED display. This paper proposed a notion of social intimacy and a scenario for social interaction.



Schiphorst, T., Nack, F., KauwATjoe, M., de Bakker, S., Stock, Aroyo, L., Rosillio, A. P., Schut, H., and Jaffe, N. 2007. PillowTalk: can we afford intimacy. In Proceedings of the 1st international Conference on Tangible and Embedded interaction (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 15 - 17, 2007). TEI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 23-30. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1226969.1226975

First post

Welcome to my research blog!
Surprising? Yes, this is a RESEARCH blog. It is suggested by my advisor. Blogging is a good way to keep a track of papers, books that i have read, questions, thoughts that came into my mind about my research. Critial reading, critial thinking and critical writing will be the theme of this blog.
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