Will we in the future wear Memes? Nordic students already do. Despite two decades of HCI research on social wearables, we are yet to see widespread adoption. In our generative design research, we investigate the utilisation of social wearables in the students’ practice of wearing and adorning boiler suits. We found a variety of social interactions, including spamming and digital memes, as a concept for designers.
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Dorsal Haptic Display is an automotive interface questioning how we perceive a car’s surroundings. Motors in a car seats backrest stimulate the driver’s back with a projection of rear obstacles. We conducted a first user study to prove basic functionality and presented our results at AutomotiveUI 2015 in Nottingham, UK, in September.
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Felix A. Epp is a doctoral researcher at Aalto University in Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design under Prof. Elisa D. Mekler and Antti Salovaara. He investigates how wearable technology can shape our face-to-face social interactions in his thesis work. Further, he develops methods to integrate futures thinking into the technology innovation practice.
M.A. Media Direction