Interdisciplinary Explorations of Digital Touch
Carey Jewitt, Sara A. Price, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Nikoleta Yiannoutsou, Douglas J. Atkinson · Human-computer interaction series · 2019
This chapter introduces and reflects on the multimodal, sensory and interdisciplinary methodological stance of this book, and the InTouch project more broadly. We introduce our main framework, which combines multimodality and sensory ethnography. We outline the collaborations and interdisciplinary dialogues that we have engaged with to explore digital touch, and argue that this approach brings different aspects of touch to the fore in ways that are productive for research and design. Finally, the different ways in which we use prototyping to gain access to, and to generate, digital touch experiences and imaginations for the purposes of research is outlined.