Sensing mine, yours, theirs, and ours
Robb Mitchell · 2015
To effectively leverage human sensorimotor abilities, this paper urges going beyond the traditional five senses. When users share physical space or location with other people, a crucial but neglected modality is arguably the sense of ownership. If, how, and what someone can see, touch, hear, feel, and taste is normally strongly influenced by their perceptions as to who something belongs to. This is illustrated by presenting preliminary results from an ongoing design space review of wearable computing experimentation concerned with encouraging interpersonal interactions between co-located people. Drawing upon urbanism theory helps show how different variations of territorial blending can articulate tactics for increasing sociality through interactive garments. These insights are offered to aid understanding of the design space for developers directly concerned with influencing co-located interactions through interactive apparel, and to address wider challenges of designing socially acceptable ubiquitous interaction.