HEART OF THE MATTER: Affective Computing in Fashion and Architecture

Farahi, Behnaz

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“…Despite the expansion of the field towards highly sophisticated prediction models, it is the expansion to more tangible domains which are particularly interesting in the provocation of embodied cognition. Projects such as "Affective Sleeve" and "Heart of the Matter," explore the notion of affective computing and their translation into wearables (Papadopoulo 2019;Farahi 2018). With the benefit being their close proximity to the body, the pieces have the ability to both detect external signals and internal biometrics.…”

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“…As digital devices, artificial intelligence, and robotics become increasingly embedded into the fabric of the environment, the opportunities increase for these technologies to work with humans to develop more empathetic machines. The field of affective computing has rapidly grown over the past years to expand beyond the focus of software applications and move towards the physical world by leveraging wearables, social robotics, and programmable materials (Breazeal 1999;Farahi 2018;Gannon 2018;Tibbits 2017). These tangible interpretations of affect through machines have sparked the conversation on how this technology, perceptive of human emotion, can influence cognition and provoke mood change.…”

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Affective Prosthesis

Richter-Lunn,

del Castillo y López

2021

ACADIA Proceedings

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As the demand for technologies that mediate the environment continues to rise, day-to-day activities have been increasingly overloaded with devices that collect personal signals, such as phones, watches, jewelry, and fi tness trackers. Yet, despite the sensibility of these machines, little has been explored in decoding the highly informative signals collected by these devices to temper the physical environment. These signals have the potential to communicate one's cognitive state and, in turn, address signs of stress and anxiety. Embracing the open access to these technologies, this research seeks to question how covert physiological signals can be turned into perceived sensorial experiences to increase awareness of one's cognitive state and elicit positive affect through material interfaces.Acting not as a substitute for traditional therapies but as an alternative antidote, these sensorial interventions seek to process, analyze, and interpret physiological patterns, such as electrodermal activity and heart rate variability, to recognize signs of high and low emotional arousal and pair them with tactile, olfactory, auditory, and visual alterations in one's surrounding. It is predicted that through the repeated association of the actuated stimuli with specifi c physiological states, a certain conditioning can be evoked to subsequently promote an instinctual response to malleable matter. The results illustrate that the fabric of the environment can not only be empathetic to subconscious mood but also able to foster positive affect through psychophysiological adaptation.

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Affective Prosthesis

Richter-Lunn,

del Castillo y López

2021

ACADIA Proceedings

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“…In parallel, affective computing has found itself embedded in prototypical architectures at the scale of the human body as wearables in fashion. Behnaz Farahi's recent work embeds human sentiment as data into responsive fibre systems (Farahi, 2018). Many data-driven responsive projects are now incorporating data as an active and evolving overlay of spatial information.…”

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As the editors of FABRICATE 2020, we have many people to thank. We received over 250 submissions from 45 countries; we would like to thank everyone who responded to the call for works, for the extraordinary breadth, depth and quality of the work submitted that made the exacting process of review, selection and curatorship so challenging. We are grateful to all authors and collaborators on every selected project, and everyone who generously agreed to present their work.We are indebted to more than 50 distinguished peer reviewers, listed below, who fulfilled their duties with impeccable professionalism and care during the early northern hemisphere summer/southern hemisphere winter 2019. Thank you also to our wonderful 2020 keynote presenters and 2017 keynote presenters, not only for your respective provocative orations, but also for your generosity in participating in the considered in-depth conversations published in this book, often at strange hours of the night; and to Chairs of our 2011, 2014, and 2017 outings for their counsel.For its fourth iteration, the FABRICATE conference has returned to The Bartlett, UCL, where it is co-chaired by Jane Burry and Jenny Sabin with Bob Sheil, a partnership between three universities on three continents: UCL,

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“…Dynamic or calming qualities were given to these spaces by controlling form, perspective, lighting, color, and materiality (Haeusler 2009;Strohmeier et al 2016). The actual impact of these complex design decisions has been challenging to assess (Farahi 2018;Shemesh et al 2016) from both quantitative and qualitative standpoints, as neural empathic responses, defined in this paper by feature indexes (FIs) and mind indexes (MIs), are highly subjective experiences (Barrett 2018). With the recent advances in the fields of virtual procedural environments (VPEs) and virtual reality (VR), supported by increasingly powerful game engine (GE) technologies, computational designers are provided with a new set of design instruments that, when combined with newly integrated brain-computing interfacing (BCI) and eye-tracking (E-T) hardware (Zhang, Jeng, and Zhang 2018), can be used to assess complex empathic reactions (Davidson 2004).…”

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Affective Computing for Generating Virtual Procedural Environments Using Game Technologies

Barsan-Pipu,

Hirth,

Sleiman

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)

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Architects have long sought to create spaces that can relate to or even induce specific emotional conditions in their users, such as states of relaxation or engagement. Dynamic or calming qualities were given to these spaces by controlling form, perspective, lighting, color, and materiality. The actual impact of these complex design decisions has been challenging to assess, from both quantitative and qualitative standpoints, because neural empathic responses, defined in this paper by feature indexes (FIs) and mind indexes (MIs), are highly subjective experiences. Recent advances in the fields of virtual procedural environments (VPEs) and virtual reality (VR), supported by powerful game engine (GE) technologies, provide computational designers with a new set of design instruments that, when combined with brain-computing interfacing (BCI) and eye-tracking (E-T) hardware, can be used to assess complex empathic reactions. As the COVID-19 health crisis showed, virtual social interaction becomes increasingly relevant, and the social catalytic potential of VPEs can open new design possibilities. The research presented in this paper introduces the cyber-physical design of such an affective computing system. It focuses on how relevant empathic data can be acquired in real time by exposing subjects within a dynamic VR-based VPE and assessing their emotional responses while controlling the actual generative parameters via a live feedback loop. A combination of VR, BCI, and E-T solutions integrated within a GE is proposed and discussed. By using a VPE inside a BCI system that can be accurately correlated with E-T, this paper proposes to identify potential morphological and lighting factors that either alone or combined can have an empathic effect expressed by the relevant responses of the MIs.

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HEART OF THE MATTER: Affective Computing in Fashion and Architecture

Abstract: PROVOKING AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE…Emotion, as the word indicates, is about movement, about externalized behavior, about certain orchestrations of reactions to a given cause, within a given environment.-Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens.

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