The Aesthetics of TouchVicky Teinaki

Full time doctoral student, year 1

Northumbria University School of Design Peer Review

2nd June 2011

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The Hothouse Graphic Design/Flash Animation

An ongoing project over three months, the process began with making diagrams suitable for presentations and culminated in a library of symbols and Flash presentation.

NZ Mouldmakers Report Graphic DesignThe Hothouse 2006-8Design ResearcherThe Hothouse/Unitec New Zealand

Tactile Technologies 2008Master of DesignUnitec New Zealand

Interaction Designer 2008-10Design, IA, front-end developmentLocus Research

Writing/editing in the interaction design community

Common threads

Common threads

An Aesthetics of Touch

OutputsA framework for designers to use to critique touch.

An Aesthetics of TouchThe Qualities of Haptics for Experience Design

This research will help support designers to critique the qualities of touch in the service of designing for experience, by compiling a vocabulary for haptic aesthetic qualities.

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PhD Timeline — Vicky Teinaki

Stagegates

Literature Review

Parallel Fields

Existing Languages

Use of Touch in Design

Pilot Studies

Revea/expert interviews

Design Probes/Languages

Identify /pilot methodologies

Collate proposed

vocabulary

Writeup of methodology

Data collection

Workshops with designers

Situate in design process

Valorising proposed frameworks

Writeup

here there be dragons

IPA Year 2 Writeup Viva

Why?Why?

”We know more than we can tell“ —Polanyi (1947)

”We know more than we can tell“ —Polanyi (1947)

”Criticism improves our perception“ —Barzell (2011)

Vicky TeinakiThe Vocabulary of Touch | Yr1 PhD University of Northumbria

04 February 2011

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SCOPE

Skill, tacit knowledge

Phenomenology Embodiment

Product Semantics

DESIGN & EMOTION

HAPTICS

COMMUNICATION

Vocabulary Design Methods

Consumer Psychology

Experience prototyping etc.

Sensory languages

Framework (?)

Materiality

Phenomena

Immaterial (gesture,

movement)

Play/funStorytelling

Meaning

Product Personality

Emotional Dimensions (Dagman, 2010)

Somaesthetics

Kansei EngineeringDiamond model (Qiren)

Onion model Iceberg model (Qiren)

User Experience

Interaction DesignAesthetics of

interaction

Making an explicit haptic language available for design communication (rather than tacit + inpenetrable/indefensible) …

… understanding that this will not be prescriptive

Soft(n)Schiphorst (2007)

Materials Library(2010)

Affective LoopSundstrom (2010)

Interface AestheticsBertelsen et al (2004)

HAPTICHara et al (2007)

HAPTICHara et al (2007)

McCarty & Wallace(2006)

Sensual Evaluation Instrument (2010)

Museumopathy Chaterjee (2010)

Language for Touch Motamedi (2008)

Language for Touch Motamedi (2008)

Aroma WheelNoble (1981)

Flabour Wheels (e.g. coffee, food)

Critter Regier (2005)

Wine Language of taste/smell

Also Music (language of sound), perfume (language of smell)

Graphic Design Language of vision

Experience Design Language of touch?

The “fixed vocabulary issue”

Kansei Engineering = quantifying the sensesProduct language is often prescriptive/top downOthers focus on material selection (e.g. Karana et al)

Personal/Reminiscence

Impersonal/Educational

Nostalgia

Meaning Making

Tactile to access truths ascertainable only through touch and to verify what is seen (Clasen)

Visual as a means of aesthetic appreciations (Clasen)

Museological to experience the rare and the museum-worthy (Clasen)

Learning as a scientific method (Clasen)

Imaginative/Creative to facilitate an intimate and imaginative experience (Clasen)

Chatterjee et.al. (2009) on aspects of museumopathy

The Language of Taste/SmellWine Tasting

Lehrer’s Wine and Conversation (1989) suggests that metaphors can jump genres, and that expert words help amateurs.

Next Steps

Video interviews of experts/designers — semantic analysisAlso pilot with selected students from RevealVideo interviews of experts/designers — semantic analysisAlso pilot with selected students from Reveal

There are methods of coding/understanding touchadapted from Lederman and Klatsky (1985)

Probes of touch critiqueSuggestions include sentences, visuals, objects.