TouchIT

Touch IT

early draft table of contents and notes

Introduction

• 1. elements of our hybrid existence

Part I. Human Body & Mind

• 2. body
• 3. mind
• 4. body & mind
• 5. social & organisation

Part II. Objects & Things

• 6. physicality of things – properties of physicality
• 7. interacting with physical objects
• 8. devices unplugged –  prototyping
• 9. tool making & craft – the way in which we alter and modify the world

Part III. Space

• 10. physicality of space _ different kinds of space, physical movement within space
• 11. comprehension of space – Lynch and spaceman, ‘Quantum Soup’.
• 12. the built environment
• 13. digital augmentation of space – physical devices representation of space

Part IV. Computation & Information

• 14. embodied computation – computation is part of the physical world, impacts the way we interact and our understanding of it
• 15. information representation
• 16. reproducibility
• 17. virtual physicality – VR, second life etc

Part V. The Theory and Practice of Physicality

• 18. design lessons and advice
• 19. prototyping and tool support;
• 19. computational modelling and implementation;
• 20. theory and philosophy of physicality