Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Janet's ubicomp talk

I'm listening to Janet's talk about Haptic reassurance. What I am finding intreasting is peoples responses to holding the lotus in their hands. Is this a embodied effect ( holding hand upwards) or is this an effect of holding delicate thing in your hand. I heard and intreasting comment about why people liked the iPod - because you have to stroke it, it is this stroking which is a most intimate act. Does it change people's relation to an object?

Good talk.

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