TY - CONF
T1 - Experiencing Distance: Wearable Engagements with Remote Relationships
AU - Beuthel, J.M.
AU - Bentegeac, P.
AU - Fuchsberger, V.
AU - Maurer, B.
AU - Tscheligi, M.
N1 - Conference code: 167036
Cited By :13
Export Date: 14 December 2023
Funding details: Austrian Science Fund, FWF
Funding details: Austrian Science Fund, FWF, I 3580-N33
Funding text 1: We want to thank the participants for sharing their personal stories that informed BREATH and WARMTH, our colleagues for wearing the wearables and providing feedback, and the reviewers for their inspirational words. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF):I 3580-N33.
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PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - Living dislocated from family, friends or partners can result in negative emotions and a lack of physical, bodily closeness. We focus on materialising the negative consequences associated with living far apart in a textile form, and manifest those in two pairs of wearable artefacts: first, WARMTH, which simulates the bodily distance between remote people through a decrease in felt temperature, and second, BREATH, which embodies the bodily absence of a remote other through a decline in mechanical movement of textiles. The wearables are 'discussion artefacts' that enable conversation about, reflection on and exchange of personal, negative, vulnerable and challenging emotions connected to living far apart. The stance taken in this pictorial emphasises the necessity to focus not only on overcoming and bridging the distance between remote people through interactive artefacts; but also, to consider and manifest melancholic and possibly negative personal experiences. © 2021 Owner/Author.
AB - Living dislocated from family, friends or partners can result in negative emotions and a lack of physical, bodily closeness. We focus on materialising the negative consequences associated with living far apart in a textile form, and manifest those in two pairs of wearable artefacts: first, WARMTH, which simulates the bodily distance between remote people through a decrease in felt temperature, and second, BREATH, which embodies the bodily absence of a remote other through a decline in mechanical movement of textiles. The wearables are 'discussion artefacts' that enable conversation about, reflection on and exchange of personal, negative, vulnerable and challenging emotions connected to living far apart. The stance taken in this pictorial emphasises the necessity to focus not only on overcoming and bridging the distance between remote people through interactive artefacts; but also, to consider and manifest melancholic and possibly negative personal experiences. © 2021 Owner/Author.
KW - Textiles
KW - Mechanical movements
KW - Personal experience
KW - Wearable technology
U2 - 10.1145/3430524.3446071
DO - 10.1145/3430524.3446071
M3 - Paper
T2 - 15th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2021
Y2 - 14 February 2021 through 17 February 2021
ER -