An Exploration of Responsive and Emotive Wearables through Research Prototyping
Rain Ashford · 2019
Responsive and Emotive wearables are concerned with the visualisation of environmental and physiological data. Four research prototypes were created for doctoral research to investigate the possibility that wearable technology could be used to create new forms of nonverbal communication using physiological data from the wearer's body. The research investigated who the audience might be for these research prototypes and their concerns and requirements. Through a lens of how these artifacts might they be used in social or formal contexts, the research gathered data from fifty potential users of emotive wearables and examined the usage and user preferences of such devices. Findings reflected the concerns of potential users from aesthetics and functionality to ethical and privacy issues.