📋 Tender Overview
Developing Interaction Design Knowledge And Materials Where Technology Touches The Body
How Intimate Are You With Your … Computer?Touch Is A Non-Verbal Communication Channel That Conveys Intimate Emotions. Can It Also Be Virtual? Funded By The European Research Council, The Intimate Touch Project Will Re-Conceptualise How Technologies Use Touch To Interact With Us. Technologies That Touch Us Will Constitute A New Paradigm Of Interactive Devices, Most Strongly Exemplified By Care Robots. In This Project, Researchers Are Using Intimacy As A Lens On Touch; They Are Considering The Felt Experience Of Touch, The Diversity Of Places On The Body Where We Will Be Touched By Technology, And The Sense That Touch Can Be Transformative Of Our View Of Ourselves. This Project Will Develop Specific Theory, Methods And Technologies. It Will Bring Together Research On Intimate Technologies, Alongside Psychological Theories On Intimacy And Neuroscience Perspectives On Touch.
Funded Under
European Research Council (Erc)
Total Cost
€ 1 861 899,00
Eu Contribution
€ 1 861 899,00
Coordinated By
Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan
Sweden
