The Materiality of Wearable Computers – Craft and Authentic User Experience

Kettley, Sarah; Smyth, Michael

Abstract

This paper presents work undertaken as part of an ongoing research programme into wearable computers and the processes for designing personal digital artifacts that exhibit authenticity. Authenticity is discussed in its associations with contemporary craft and as a means by which tools may cease disappearing in the obsessively rational quest for the 'invisible computer' and instead become more meaningful for users as objects in interaction. Materiality is arrived at as a possible basis for further work into agentive design methodologies.

Citation

Kettley, S., & Smyth, M. (2004). The Materiality of Wearable Computers – Craft and Authentic User Experience. Design Journal, 7(2), 32-41. https://doi.org/10.2752/146069204789354381

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Apr 28, 2015
• Publication Date: 2004-07
• Deposit Date: Apr 30, 2008
• Publicly Available Date: May 16, 2017
• Journal: The Design Journal
• Print ISSN: 1460-6925
• Electronic ISSN: 1756-3062
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 32-41
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/146069204789354381
• Keywords: Arts; Craftwork; Human-Computer Interaction; Computers; Design; Comfortblanket; Perception
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/1854
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/146069204789354381
• Contract Date: May 16, 2017