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Between 2018 and 2019, I built The End of Emotional Privacy, my Master's thesis at IAAC exploring how empathy could be felt physically.
I designed a bodysuit that translates emotions into real-time heat, using infrared sensors to read body temperature and heat pads built from conductive thread, so happiness, sadness, anxiety, and fear could be physically felt on the wearer's back. I paired it with a live p5.js visualization so people could see the detected emotional state as well as feel it.
It was selected for Global Grad Show in Dubai, later exhibited at the Design Museum of Barcelona, and covered by El País and TV3.
this may be one of the coolest things i've seen on contra yet. incredible idea, not to mention the execution!
thank you so much!! it was pre AI era, which makes me more proud of everything I did back then
i wish i could upgoat the same post again woW
🥹 thanks again! you were my first goat, btw
thank you!!! yes, pretty fast! I had to regulate it to get to the real temperature because in some early experiments, they burnt haha
Translating emotional data into heat you can physically feel is such a visceral way to make empathy tangible instead of just visualized. What was the biggest technical hurdle in getting the heat pads to respond fast enough that it felt like a real-time reaction rather than a delay?
Thank you!! It was based on a study from Aalto University, I loved the concept of emotions mapped as heat. Good question, I used pmw through a mosfet instead of simple on/off so the pads could ramp up smoothly instead of just switching. I’m eno engineer though, just did a...
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