The Materiality of Wearable Computers – Craft and Authentic User Experience

Kettley, Sarah; Smyth, Michael

doi:10.2752/146069204789354381

The Materiality of Wearable Computers – Craft and Authentic User Experience

Kettley, Sarah; Smyth, Michael

Authors

Sarah Kettley

Dr Michael Smyth M.Smyth@napier.ac.uk
Professor

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.

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