2020–2022
TOUCH, FEEL, SENSE [PROCESS BOOK]
From 2020 to 2022, many of my friends and I suffered from isolation and skin hunger, so I designed this research-oriented book. The book, as an open-ended experiment, mainly aims to answer one question: can my brain regain the sense of touch by filpping through it (even a digital version)?
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From 2020 to 2022, many of my friends and I suffered from isolation and skin hunger, so I designed this research-oriented book. The book, as an open-ended experiment, mainly aims to answer one question: can my brain regain the sense of touch by filpping through it (even a digital version)?
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Objectives
- Highlight the essentialness of touch
- Trigger sense of touch visually
- Augment users’ senses via materaility
- Reinterpret the concept of interaction
References
- Touch by Tiffany Field, 2nd Edition
- The Senses of Touch: Haptic, Affects, and Technologies by Mark Paterson
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Combining vision and touch in texture perception by Bill Jones and Sandra O'neil
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The representation of space near the body through touch and vision by E. Macalusoa,∗, A. Maravitab
a Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179 Rome, Italy
b Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Image Selection
Besides aesthetic purpose and providing 2nd-layer message, most images are straightly related to the text, serving Aphantasia readers.
DESIGN TREATMENT
DESIGN EVOLUTION
Tablet Mockup
2022
2022
Converting the actual book to an e-book, yet still keeping some physciality. Different gestures embeded in the app. Each action triggers a visual related to the text.
Digital Product
Snapchat filter, 2020
In Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, God reaches to Adam’s fingers. We react and reach to mobile screens in the digital era.
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In Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, God reaches to Adam’s fingers. We react and reach to mobile screens in the digital era.
