Grasping
Animated by Claudius Lazzeroni's teaching method based on perception and by my wish to further explore the opportunities of sensual communication with computers I asked myself the following questions:
1) The sense of touch helps us in every day live to evaluate various objects such as the freshness of food. Is there a way of transforming such an application of the sense of touch to the computer?
2) The input devices on most standard computers today are restricted to a mouse and a keyboard. Is it possible to engender haptic experiences with these – from a tactile point of view – poor means? And if so, is there a practical application for this beyond beautiful design studies?
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