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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- Borders and interfaces: the challenges of the wearable computer’s design in the near future
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Chair Persons: Luisa Paraguai & Rachel Zuanon
Presenters: Laura Beloff & Sara DiamondThe wearable computing is a knowledge area in constant development, evoking significant transformations on human/machine communication to configure an effective and affective interface. Those technological artefacts have augmented the personal boundaries redesigning the corporeal schema and lived experiences of bodily spatiality. So, the user’s body is beyond acting the support for those computers understood as a physical reality technologically mediated elaborating behaviours and sensory-motor skills, which works as essential data for recognition of own preferences. Those information exchanges between biological and technological systems have constructed possible dialogues evoking questions and pointing out challenges. The panel with a contemporaneous perspective about the creation and the development of wearable computers concerns with the main aspects of those processes: the design, creation, innovation, mobility, usability and ergonomic perspectives; the fashion, about the body-technology-consume relation; the textile technology, about smart textiles; the sustainability, about recycle materials, use of natural energy as the charger of the mechanical and electronic systems and the development of systems with low energy cost; the networks and technologies, considering the augmentation of the body and mind of human subjects in networks of interactions powered by communication technologies.