Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing - Couverture rigide

Parisi, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1517900581 ISBN 13 : 9781517900588

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2018

Synopsis

A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media

Since the rise of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces-which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch-offering an alternative way of mediating and experiencing reality. 

In Archaeologies of Touch, David Parisi offers the first full history of these increasingly vital technologies, showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past three hundred years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Through lively analyses of electrical machines, videogames, sex toys, sensory substitution systems, robotics, and human–computer interfaces, Parisi shows how the materiality of touch technologies has been shaped by attempts to transform humans into more efficient processors of information. 

With haptics becoming ever more central to emerging virtual-reality platforms (immersive bodysuits loaded with touch-stimulating actuators), wearable computers (haptic messaging systems like the Apple Watch’s Taptic Engine), and smartphones (vibrations that emulate the feel of buttons and onscreen objects), Archaeologies of Touch offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Parisi is associate professor of emerging media at the College of Charleston.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1517900581
• ISBN 13: 9781517900588
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 452
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• Personne responsable: non disponible