ReFlexLab: Designing Transitive Wearable Technologies towards Poetic Aesthetics

摘要

This paper investigates new ways of expressing emotions and desires through adaptable and wearable devices. Therefore a conceptual framework is being developed to clarify questions on new upcoming interfaces and their relation to body expression. What kind of aesthetic practices do we have for novel wearable interfaces to guide social interactions? The platform ReFlexLab is proposed, being situated in the academic and market research field, to design wearable interfaces that are changing in response to gestures, both affecting our physical and intellectual selves. Focusing on combining human expressions and emotional design with the responsiveness of new material and computational technologies, this research aims to bring up a new understanding for wearable technologies. These investigations will push novel ways to further express the complex methods of communication - methods that linger behind every bodily expression.