KALINA PANOVA
How individual acts of digital self augmentation are contributing to a larger collective experience and altering the relationship with our physical appearance?
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physical vs digital communication
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the efficient paradox
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more meaningful human connection
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dark UX
METHODOLOGIES AND AIMS:
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Culture probes + focus group
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Live reactive AI connected camera with Touchdesigner
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Simulating a living body using soft robotics and air pums
FINAL TOPIC:
How digital augmentation tools contribute to the
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Desire for authentic interpersonal relationships in this era of digital communication
Song, F.W., 2021
InterVarsity Press
Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age
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Culture Probe #1
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User Persona and Interaction Storyboard
Yiqian Zhang
“ Even though I really want to catch up with my friends back home, sometimes I pick up my phone but end up not sending any messages. I wish we could just send each other something like a satellite signal so we know that we’re doing alright on our side without feeling the mental pressure for a proper chat.”
Demographics
Age
Nationality
Occupation
Location
Time abroad
She/her
China
International student
Royal College of Art
2nd year
Connections
TikTok
Other
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Frustrations
Long building up process and not enough energy for a real catch up. Connection frictions caused by distance and time
Goals
Better connection with friends back home
Creative ways to share experience with friends
Distributed effort for a long lasting connection
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The Ambient Emotional Resonance Device is a novel desk-to-desk artefact designed to deepen emotional connections between long distance friends through music, by translating emotional responses into tactile communication
The device captures and communicates the emotional nuances of music listening in real-time, allowing users to feel each other's reaction through touch, even during passive listening sessions ( providing an alternative to heavy information-based communications)
music is one of the most powerful concepts in the world:perfectly human. As a shared experience it elevates the bond between psyches on a level we cannot even understand
Ambient EMOTIONAL RESONANCE SYSTEm for shared music experience
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KEy FEatures
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How to make movement
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I knew I needed something to keep my fabric firm so when the thread was being pulled the fabric would not scrunch. I was floating around using paper, tape, a 3D printed mold and many more.
So I went back to researching the origins of darning and found an interesting technique suggested by Lydia Trattles Coates in her 1917 book “ American Dressmaking Step by Step“. She indeed suggested using paper as a stabilizer while sewing the patch - “ Do not draw the tread too tightly. If the hole is large baste the part to be darned with thin oilcloth or heavy paper before darning”
I then started experimenting with different types of paper - from receipts to heavy 300g paper and different lamination possibilities. As the author suggests, heavy paper works best to resist the pressure from the tread, but I have found that if a layer of tape or some sort of vinyl is applied on top it protects the integrity of the paper.
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Mechanical design
different behaviour - one object
I combined my first two objects into one that shares the properties of both - a ticker gridlike expandble structure with thin easily inflatable pockets in between.
Choosing the right materials
Different materials have diferent properties, even a diferent brand of silicone behaves uniquely to others. I tested ( much my fianancial downfal ) many different types to find one that is both super strechy but strong, sets slow enough to make the shape in the mold, can be colored ect.
I the proccess I learned the exact diference between siolicone, rubber,
object transformation
Making a object go from a sharp cube to a sphere by playing with silicone tickness
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AI Stable Diffusion in Touchdesigner
