Anargyros Drolapas, Myrto Sarma, Katerina Michalopoulou, Antonis Touloumis, Christina Kalampouka, Eleana Kremmyda
The constantly evolving technology offers us the opportunity of experimenting on new media. New Media, eventually redefine the essence of communication itself. And consequently redefine and shape both the link itself and the identity of the communicating parties. The characteristic of the media is that not only they cover a need, but create new relationships, new worlds.
In our project we focused on creating a mediator correlated with the operation of the touch sense. Technological achievements give new attributes to touching. We offer for consideration the idea that mediator reveals the very sense of touch. It allows us to reset the very gesture and its operation. The act of touching is now a controlled conscious act. Conscious both of the person who perceives and from him who produces it. And when this process, production and making it interactive, then the interaction itself creates a new relationship between subjects.
A new scenery based on these thoughts was finally created. According to this, the new mediator will redefine the connection between people who due to various political, social or economic reasons are forced to live separately. The refugees and immigrants struggle for survival and their continued movement constituted the case study. So we created two communicating wirelessly garments (two skins) that transmit to each other information.
In terms of operation principles our system copies the process of touching. Touch is realized through sensory nerve fibers, situated under the skin, which collect information. Information is converted into signals that are sent to the spinal cord and from there to the brain. Through construction of successive reflections we initially created a new skin (A) (a garment with sewed touch probes) that collects and conducts information to a processor (A) (arduino uno). Through a second reflection information is sent out to and collected (wirelessly) by another processor (B) (arduino uno) that activates the second skin (B). The third reflection takes place in the connection between the second skin and the recipient skin.
Walking Architects 