Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau: Mobile Feelings I.

2002/03 tangible communication device
"Mobile Feelings" is an artistic project that explores the ambivalence of sharing personal information with an anonymous audience. Instead of communication via voice or images to people we know, "Mobile Feelings" lets people communicate with strangers through virtual touch and body sensations including smell and sweat using specially designed mobile phones.

As opposed to application-based systems in the area of "affective computing" [1], "wearable computing" [2], "robotic user interfaces" [3] and tactile interfaces for handheld devices [4], "Mobile Feelings" aims to create unusual and unsettling sensations of sharing private body sensations with complete strangers over a mobile phone network.

More info: http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS/FRAMES/FrameSet.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• interactive
• art
• mobile
• phone
• technology
• communication
• touch
• smell
• sweat